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German Strike Force
Arrests Neo-Nazis

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Washington (JTA) — A $100 mil-
lion budget shortfall at the Im-
migration and Naturalization
Service could threaten the fate of
thousands of potential Jewish
emigrants seeking to leave the
former Soviet Union.
To lower costs, INS will begin
July 1 to cut the number of
refugee interviews in Moscow,
from an average of 84 a day to 48.
Currently, anyone seeking to
come to the United States from
the former Soviet Union must
travel to the Russian capital for
an INS interview.
`There is this significant short-
fall due to poor planning by INS
and inefficient management,"
said Martin Wenick, executive
vice president of the Hebrew Im-
migrant Aid Society.
"They did not do their statis-
tics properly and forecasted more
income that did not come in."
INS offices abroad are fund-
ed directly by fees charged to im-
migrants applying for papers
when they arrive in this country.
The United States ran an
amnesty program for illegal im-
migrants in the late 1980s that

VAN DYKE

Torgau, Germany (JTA) — It was
5 a.m. on June 22, the start of a
day that Philip Schmidt (a ficti-
tious name) and a dozen of his
neo-Nazi friends would likely re-
member for some time to come.
As the day was dawning, some
60 police officers gathered at the
picturesque town hall in this east-
ern German town, ready to strike
at neo-Nazi youths.
In the best tradition of German
precision, everything was worked
out in advance, down to the last
detail. In a few minutes, the po-
licemen would leave the building
and go knock on doors in differ-
ent parts of this small town, pop-
ulation 21,300.
The purpose of the operation
was to apprehend 11 youths who
were suspected of having been
involved in violent attacks on for-
eigners.
Embarking on the operation
was a unique strike force bearing
the rather awkward name of Spe-
cial Commission to Combat the
Violence of Rightist Extremists
and Hatred of Aliens — abbrevi-
ated in German to SOKO REX.
The force was established two-
and-a-half years ago to combat
the steep rise in neo-Nazi violence
and political activity — perhaps
the single most alarming devel-
opment in the former East Ger-
many since the reunification of
the two Germanys in October
1990.
The new force, which is based
in Dresden, capital of the eastern
state of Saxony, was set up with
the purpose of moving quickly to
troubled spots and hitting hard
at perpetrators of violent acts to
prevent escalations of neo-Nazi
violence.
It operates with the widest
reach of any unit of its kind in
Germany. Indeed, violent acts
against foreigners in Saxony
dropped from 287 in 1992 to 79
last year. And Moerbitz noted
that some 90 percent of right-
wing perpetrators of violent at-
tacks are caught.
But the question remains
whether such police raids are suf-
ficient, or whether they amount
to little more than a temporary
stopgap measure.
According to official police sta-
tistics, there are some 1,000 neo-
Nazis in Saxony alone.
A number of incidents prompt-
ed the police action last week in
Torgau, some 30 miles north of
Dresden. On June 6, a Pakistani
asylum-seeker was attacked near
a discotheque here. His assailants
struck with baseball bats and cat-
tle prods. On the same day, a
youth club in town that serves as
a meeting place for young for-

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The United States
ran an amnesty
program for illegal
immigrants in the
late 1980s.

resulted in a huge increase in ap-
plications for legal working pa-
pers.
INS officials did not account
for the reduction in fees collected
after the legalization program
ended by early 1989.
Plans are in the works to find
funds from other government
agencies but no agreements have
been reached.
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