| A question that needs to be addressed by many other states and international organizations concerns the status of long-term refugees and asylees. |
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| Immigrants, refugees, and asylees constitute only a fraction of foreign-born persons who enter the United States each year. |
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| During 1992-2002, an estimated 380,000 to 536,000 persons entered the United States annually as immigrants, refugees, or asylees. |
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| Some of the would-be asylees are in serious need of international protection. |
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| Congress needs to restore the original intent of the political asylum law and resist efforts to develop new classifications of asylees. |
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| Smugglers commonly fool would-be asylees, taking their money and disappearing or simply failing to help them cross Turkey's borders. |
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| The Dublin Convention set up an EU-wide data base of asylees and refugees and clarified responsibility for processing asylum seekers who had applied to several EU countries. |
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| The Jamestown Foundation Jamestown is a unique organization founded in the early eighties to assist asylees and defectors from the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. |
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