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Push to sedate asylum seeker prompts private bill

"The federal government would like to forcibly sedate and deport an immigrant-restaurateur who resisted his removal last August with repeated screams because of fears he'd be murdered back in his native Albania.

But an unlikely champion from East Texas has penned a private bill in Congress that would allow 32-year-old Rrustem Neza to stay in the country until early 2009 – and give him time to receive a full rehearing of his political asylum case."

DIANNE SOLÍS
in the Dallas Morning News

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