1. Many of those who arrived in the last few years came without valid documents, believing that the United States would grant them political asylum. 2. Police said they were only rounding up Afghans without refugee status who lack valid documents and who had violated immigration laws or committed other crimes. 3. Afghan refugees who are holding valid documents for entry into Pakistan will be permitted to stay, Pakistani officials said. 4. But Abubakar said they had no valid documents to back their story. 5. Despite pleas not to be deported to violence-torn cities, Malaysia will keep expelling Indonesian workers who are found without valid documents, a newspaper reported Monday. 6. He said the refugees were delayed at the border because many of them arrived late and did not have valid documents, despite earlier instructions to come prepared. 7. None of the Palestinians huddled in the squalid camp have valid documents to go anywhere else, Colville said. 8. The Star daily quoted local police official Suhaimi Mohd Ali as saying that the Filipinos arrested did not have valid documents. 9. Those found without valid documents or work permits would be sent to a holding camp for deportation. 10. However, dozens of other expelled Palestinians holding valid documents crossed the border into Egypt on Saturday. |