1.   Many refugees risk death or arrest in their attempts to flee persecution.

2.   Those individuals fleeing persecution, however, deserve special consideration.

3.   Clothes... medicine... blankets and baby foods form just part of the vital supplies donated to help the Kurdish refugees fleeing persecution after the Gulf War.

4.   And its moral strength came from its openness to people who fled persecution.

5.   And that was the country his parents had chosen as a haven after they fled persecution in Ukraine.

6.   As the old joke has it, our Pilgrim forefathers fled religious persecution in England so they could do some persecuting themselves.

7.   A humanitarian parole is a little-used vehicle for allowing refugees who are fleeing persecution in their homeland to enter the United States quickly.

8.   According to the Lawyers Committee, immigration inspectors repeatedly provided Serb translators for ethnic Albanians fleeing Serb persecution in Kosovo.

9.   But very few are welcomed, because U.S. officials maintain a legal, possibly artificial distinction between those fleeing political persecution and those seeking economic opportunity.

10.   Current immigration law favors refugees from Nicaragua and Cuba who fled persecution in their countries.