BONN,GERMANY: Faced with resurgent rightwing extremism and a faltering economy, Germany began rewriting its liberal asylum Jaw recently to try to halt the rush of would be immigrants. The open door policy in effect since 1949 has offered a constitutional guarantee of asylum to all politically oppressed people and was enacted by postwar Germany as a way of trying to atone for its Nazi past. Nearly all of the 440,000 asylum seekers who catered Germany last year came for economic reasons.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 19, 1993
