The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals agreed to grant asylum to a Ukrainian Jewish father and son who claimed they were victimized by anti-Semitism. The decision upheld an immigration judge’s ruling that the two did, in fact, have a “well-founded fear of persecution,” based on conditions in Ukraine. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society commended the decision, saying it reconfirms the fact that life for Jews and other minorities in the former Soviet Union “remains precarious.”
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