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Refugee and Asylum Policy: National Passion versus National Interest
In 1783 George Washington called America a land whose "bosom is open to receive the persecuted and oppressed of all ... Southeast Asia, Cuba, and of Haiti; the victims of drought and famine in Africa; the freedom fighters in Afghanistan....2 When George Washington welcomed the world's persecuted and oppressed, the newly independent ...
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