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Those are the most recent statistics available.

57. William Branigin, "Gays' Cases Help Expand Immigration

Rights," Washington Post, December 17, 1996, p. A1.

58. "INS Grants Asylum to Gay Brazilian with HIV," Interpre-

ter Releases 73 (August 26, 1996): 1141.

59. Ibid., p. 1140.

60. Ibid., p. 1141.

61. Congressional Record 142, 104th Cong., 2d sess., daily

ed. (September 30, 1996): S. 11840.

62. Editorial, New York Times, September 17, 1997, p. A34.

63. This version of the deadline was adopted by the Senate

on May 1, 1996, having passed the Senate Judiciary Committee

by unanimous consent.