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33. Federal Document Clearing House, Political Transcripts,

"INS Holds News Conference on the Asylum Reform Efforts,"

Washington, January 4, 1996.

34. A Boston Globe editorial also calls the filing deadline

un-American.  See "Un-American Activities," editorial,

Boston Globe, March 14, 1996.

35. For a more detailed analysis of the problems with the

regulations implementing the new asylum filing deadline and

the expedited removal provisions, see Philip G. Schrag and

Michele R. Pistone, "The New Asylum Rule: Not Yet a Model of

Fair Procedure," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 11

(1997): 385-418.

36. Douglas Shenson, "30 Days or Else," New York Times,

February 15, 1996, p. A27.

37. See Philip Schrag, "Don't Gut Political Asylum," Wash-

ington Post, November 12, 1995, p. C7, reprinted in George-

town Immigration Law Journal 10 (1996): 93-94.

38. Other symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder include

depression, insomnia, extreme isolation, and mistrust of

authority figures.  See American Psychiatric Association,

Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Wash-

ington: American Psychiatric Association, 1994), sec.

309.81.

39. Physicians for Human Rights, Defending the Right to

Asylum: Opposition to 30-Day Time Limit for Asylum Seekers

in the United States (Boston: Physicians for Human Rights,

January 1996), Attachment 10, p. 3.

40. Ibid., p. 9.

41. Board of Immigration Appeals, "In re Mogharrabi," Inter-

im Decision no. 3028, Falls Church, Virginia, Board of

Immigration Appeals, June 12, 1987.  The Board of Immigra-

tion Appeals recognized that applicants for asylum may have

difficulty obtaining corroborative evidence.  It held that

the applicant's testimony, standing alone, may be enough to

meet the burden of proof, as long as the testimony is "be-

lievable, consistent, and sufficiently detailed to provide a

plausible and coherent account of the basis for the fear"

(p. 7).