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To: Neocon who wrote (78827)	4/24/2000 1:34:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

But others do have a particular claim, or should have a particular claim, on our sympathies, at the very least. Do you know how many people are denied asylum every year? Or who are refused even visitors' visas to this country, out of fear that they might jump ship once here? I am not saying we should deny anyone asylum (although I doubt that a 6-year-old even knows what the term means). I am just skeptical of "sympathy" that is extended only to "victims of Castro's oppression." As if there were no oppression anywhere else on the globe!! We need to rethink our whole attitude towards immigration and asylum, IMO. We threw Haitians out by the scruff of their necks, although they too fell out of flimsy boats and got devoured by sharks in the effort to get here, because they were judged to be just "economic migrants," not like those classy Cubans.