But 9,000 people came through here last year looking for asylum.

But I don't see why they come here looking for asylum.

They did not ask for political asylum, but could do so later, he said.

In the last few years, between 35,000 and 52,000 people per year have asked for asylum.

Not a single student is known to have been accepted for asylum in the West.

Between 1989 and 1991, about 30,000 people a year applied for asylum here.

Thus she applied for political asylum on March 29, 1997.

More than 6,600 have been allowed to apply for asylum.

In the first six months of 1992, there were 11,875 applications for asylum.

Spring training and most of a season have passed since the couple applied for asylum.