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14. 8 C.F.R., secs. 208.9(d), 208.17.

15. U.S. Department of Justice, 1996 Statistical Yearbook of

the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Table 27, p. 87.

16. U.S. Committee for Refugees, Refugee Reports (Washing-

ton: U.S. Committee for Refugees, December 31, 1996),

pp. 12-13.  The INS granted asylum to 13,368 individuals,

whereas immigration judges, to whom INS asylum officers

refer asylum claims not granted, granted asylum to 4,001

people in FY96.

17. CBS News, 60 Minutes, January 14, 1993, transcript,

p. 1.

18. Ibid.

19. Since the program aired in early 1993, the figures for

1992 would have been the most accurate at the time.  See

Sarah Ignatius, An Assessment of the Asylum Process of the

Immigration and Naturalization Service (Boston: Political

Asylum Representation Project, September 1993), p. 31.  This

statistic includes grants of both affirmative and defensive

claims for asylum.

20. See, for example, 8 C.F.R., sec. 208.7 (Employment

Authorization), sec. 208.9 (Interview and Procedure), sec.

208.10 (Failure to Appear), and sec. 208.14 (Approval, Deni-

al, or Referral of Application).

21. The rules permit the INS to grant a work permit in the

rare cases in which someone has had an application on file

with the INS for 180 days and that application has not yet

been acted on.  8 C.F.R., sec. 208.7.

22. William Branigin, "INS Chief Highlights Reform in Polit-

ical Asylum System; Year-Long Campaign Slashes New Claims by

57%," Washington Post, January 5, 1996, p. A2.

23. The rate is based on statistics from INS, Office of

International Affairs, for the 12-month period beginning

December 1995 and ending November 1996.  The statistics do

not include applications filed as a result of the 1990

settlement of American Baptist Church (ABC) v. Thornburg,

760 F. Supp. 796 (N.D. Cal. 1991), which provides for dif-

ferent procedures for certain Salvadoran and Guatemalan

applicants for asylum.