Tough controls
President Clinton took steps to combat a wave of illegal immigration into the United States, pledging to increase border patrols and to make it easier for undeserving asylum-seekers to be turned away, David Usborne writes from Washington.
Tough penalties will also be introduced for syndicates discovered smuggling immigrants professionally.
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