in the United States. Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director of NIJC, spoke to Windy City Times about the legal and political conundrums that asylees face and the organization's research into the systemic abuse inflicted upon so many which prompted the complaint. She says it is the first of its kind and has been in process for about a year.

It is not illegal to seek asylum in the United States and, in fact, McCarthy emphaisized, it is actually a right to do so: “Under immigration laws, [in the cases of] individuals who do not have legal status upon entering the country, the government may detain those individuals [in administrative or civil custody]. These individuals face, oftentimes, indefinite detention unless their immigration case is resolved. That's a concern to usEdinburgh (Scotland’s academy of sciences); listed in the London Mathematical Society’s directory of mathematicians..
 Referee for Research Council Projects in the UK, the EU, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the NSF in the US.
 Regular expert witness to Parliaments (the UK, Scotland, Sweden, the Netherlands, European Union)

See also
 List of economists

References

External links
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