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asylum application policy
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — The
head of the House immigration sub
committee Tuesday questioned a
policy of detaining rejected political
asylum applicants and said Congress
should consider allowing more Cen
tral Americans to stay in the country.
An immigration official, however,
said stopping deportations would at
tract more illegal immigrants to the
United States.
“Detention in and of itself is not a
solution to a problem, and if we end
up with large numbers of people in
detention for long periods of time,
that is not a successful policy,” U.S.
Rep. Bruce Morrison, D-Conn., said
Tuesday, winding up a 22-hour fact
finding trip to the southern Texas
border.
The Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service on Feb. 21 began imme
diate detention of political asylum
applicants in a new one-day adjudi
cation procedure. It also stopped re
leasing those apprehended by the
Border Patrol on their own recogni
zance.
Since then, the number of people
in INS custody in Texas’ southern
most county has swollen from about
450 on Feb. 20 to Tuesday’s total of
more than 2,600.
Morrison said the Central Ameri
can immigration crisis will be dis
cussed at a hearing the subcommit
tee will hold Thursday in
Washington.
U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Cor-
pus Christi, hosted Morrison in his
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district, where they met with local of
ficials, immigration attorneys and
visited a church-sponsored refugee
shelter as well as INS facilities.
Ortiz said he was impressed with
the new INS policy.
More than 40,000 people, mostly
Central Americans, who have
crossed near the border city of
Brownsville since last spring applied
for political asylum.
Asylum is granted to those able to
persuade the INS that they are flee
ing persecution, but INS officials
maintain that most are here for eco
nomic reasons and do not qualify for
political refugee status.
Morrison, who last month became
chairman of the House Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Ref
ugees and International Law, said
the concept of political asylum was
little more than “an afterthought” in
the Refugee Act of 1980.
“The current level of applications,
in a sense, overwhelmed the system,”
said Morrison, noting that there are
some 80,000 pending asylum appli
cations in the United States, al
though not all are from Central
Americans.
“The prospects of their being ad
judicated in a reasonable amount of
time are very slim,” Morrison said.
“We’re talking about people from
countries where there are some very
severe problems, where there’s been
a lot of war and violence,” Morrison
said. “And whether or not these in
dividuals have the requisite facts to
be granted asylum, I think we have
to look beyond that to other kinds of
issues like extended voluntary de
parture or safe haven, which may
apply to some of these populations.”
Ex-counselor teaches people value
of laughter in cutting down on stress
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Former high-school
counselor Mark Towers is making good money teach
ing folks how to laugh and improve their self-esteem
and personal motivation.
A little humor sprinkled through your daily diet can
help you get along better with other people and stimu
late productivity on your job, he luggeati,
And laughter la an excellent health tonic that can re
duce the big killer —■ itrcii — and let you live longer,
Towers says,
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two peo
ple" is a truism credited to American humorist will
Rogers that T owers frequently urges upon his audi
ences,
And he pops jokes, cracks anecdotes, mixes in some
card and sleight-of-hand tricks, and offers witty, funny
common-sense phrases and tales that make listeners
feel more chipper.
“Stress is getting stuck in traffic after drinking two
cups of coffee and a bran muffin,” is one of his typical
one-liners.
Last July, Towers, 38, gave up 16 years of high-
school teaching and counseling, including the past
three years at Tuloso-Midway High School, to become a
lecturer for National Seminars Inc., a Kansas-based na
tional workshop promoter.
When 1988 ended, Towers had given talks at 70 pub
lic seminars in 12 states to meetings ranging from 50 to
300 people.
He has spoken to groups in New York City, New Or
leans, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Mi
ami, St, Louis, Baltimore and Washington, D,C.
Other seminars took him to Chicago, Detroit,
Denver, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Albu
querque, Dallas, Houston and other cities,
This year Towers, now a member of the National
Speakers Association, has been booked for 90 seminars
— most of them day-long sessions *= in 20 weeks, or up
to four lecturers per week in more than 30 states,
For NSI, Towers gives workshops dealing with lead
ership, time management, self-esteem development,
sales promotion, using humor in the workplace and
coping with change in work and lifestyles. Those going
to seminars pay $49 to $89 a head to hear him.
Towers works one week and is off the next week. In
his free time, he independently conducts local, state
and regional seminars. He expects to give another 40
seminars on his own, for a total of about 140 speaking
engagements in 1988.
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