1.   It is also right that, as we have been urging, the asylum claims should be examined more expeditiously.

2.   Those who are making asylum claims should have access to free professional legal advice, as they want it.

3.   An immigration judge in Chicago, where Vallabhaneni now lives, denied her asylum claim.

4.   And it has made it abundantly clear that it will not tolerate the presence of refugees whose asylum claims do not meet the highest threshold of proof.

5.   And they are from Adamawa State, in northeastern Nigeria, they said, not Kogi State, in central Nigeria, as the asylum seeker claims.

6.   Apparently hoping to stick around longer, he filed an asylum claim with the INS.

7.   Asylum claims are not considered valid if the applicant can find a safe haven within his own country.

8.   Because the Kosovars would not be in America proper, they would not be able to make asylum claims that would let them stay.

9.   Bogus asylum claims are then filed with the INS, allowing immigrants to obtain permits and work in the United States for years while their claims are being processed.

10.   Bowman said he believed that the judge was not open to this kind of asylum claim.