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19 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 529 (1991-1992)
Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District

handle is hein.journals/nyuls19 and id is 539 raw text is: SYSTEMIC DETERRENCE AGAINST PROSPECTIVE ASYLUM SEEKERS: A STUDY OF THE SOUTH TEXAS IMMIGRATION DISTRICT ROBERT E. KOULISH* Introduction ........................................................ 529 I. Evolution of the Detention Zone .............................. 533 A. Overview of INS Policy in the District ................... 534 B. Conditions in the Detention Centers ...................... 539 II. Expansive Arrest and Search Powers .......................... 543 III. Initial Immigration Processing ................................ 546 IV. Affirmative Asylum .......................................... 548 V. Deportation Proceedings ...................................... 550 A. The Master Calendar Hearing ............................ 551 B. The Court Record and Translation Concerns ............. 558 VI. Representation ............................................... 559 VII. Bond Determinations ......................................... 562 VIII. Other Procedural Deterrents .................................. 565 A. Changes in Venue ....................................... 565 B. Notification and Delay ................................... 567 Conclusion .......................................................... 570 INTRODUCTION In May of 1992, the Bush Administration initiated a policy of inter- cepting thousands of Haitian refugees en route to Florida and returning them to Haiti, and likely death, without providing any determination of their polit- ical asylum claims.1 This episode publicly brought into question the United States' commitment to the United Nations Protocol on Political Refugees, which states that political refugee status should be determined on a fact-spe- cific and non-ideological basis.2 The author has'spent several years on the * B.A., 1982, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., 1985, University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (expected). The author would like to thank Proyecto Libertad and the Executive Office for Immigration Review for generously opening their files and records for study; Deborah Anker and Dan Kesselbrenner for their early encouragement; Rogelio Nuiiez, Jonathan Jones, Mark Schneider, E.J. Flynn, Jonathan Moore, Linda Yanez, Thelma Garcia, and Dr. Jose Hinojosa for teaching me about immigration issues in the South Texas District; Jennifer Bailey for her ongoing assistance; and Dr. Anne Khademian and Dr. Michael Oliviero for commenting on earlier drafts. 1. Michael Wines, Switching Policy, U.S. Will Return Refugees to Haiti, N.Y. TIMEs, May 25, 1992, at Al. 2. Refugee Act, Pub. L. No. 96-22, 94 Stat. 102 (1980) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 8 U.S.C.) (adopting the United Nations Protocol). The Refugee Act tracks the UN 529 Imaged with the Permission of N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change

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