Monday, June 27, 2005  Send ‘Em to US  I realize that countries
have to have a methodology by which they determine whether a
person seeking asylum should be granted protection. I realize
that.  But when people are leaving a country like Zimbabwe that
is teetering on the edge of complete collapse--where the ruling
party has stated its intentions to form a one party democracy,
where the police have rendered (at the very least) hundreds of
thousands homeless, where food is being used as a weapon to
influence voters, and where the whispered threat of a new civil
war is beginning to sound like more than just idle talk--then it
seems that the desire for asylum should be taken seriously. The
desire for security and opportunity away from the abuses of a
dictator aren’t just understandable, they are the most
sympathetic cry for protection that I can imagine.  Until two
years ago, the UK had a policy that did not allow Zimbabwean
asylum seekers to be deported back to Zimbabwe; despite the
Robert Mugabe’s recent abuses,