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International

Jan. 24, 2006

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CREDIBILITY GAP - When foreigners apply for political asylum in the United States, it's not unusual for courts to find they've concocted tales of persecution.

CREDIBILITY GAP - When foreigners apply for political asylum in the United States, it's not unusual for courts to find they've concocted tales of persecution.
        On Monday, Judge Alex Kozinski accused two of his colleagues on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of going out of their way to accept a phony story.
        "[T]he majority invents its own ver...

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