by John J. Miller
One Manhattan attorney and the Chinese ‘snakeheads’
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FOR Chinese nationals seeking asylum in the United States during the 1990s, Manhattan lawyer Robert E. Porges was the man to see. When 286 aliens aboard the Golden Venture shipwrecked off a Long Island beach in 1993, Porges wound up representing most of them. Thousands of others arriving
It’s What Everyone Has Been Waiting For!
About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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FOR Chinese nationals seeking asylum in the United States during the 1990s, Manhattan lawyer Robert E. Porges was the man to see. When 286 aliens aboard the Golden Venture shipwrecked off a Long Island beach in 1993, Porges wound up representing most of them. Thousands of others arriving
It’s What Everyone Has Been Waiting For!
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About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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