Both the asylum officer and the judge found that she had no credible fear of persecution.

Subsequently it accepted some 11,000 of nearly 40,000 Haitians who established a credible fear of persecution if returned.

Almost 90 percent of people asking for asylum are being found to have a credible fear.

It also provides a special immigration status for women and children deemed to have a credible fear of harm in their home country.

Immigration officials intervened to stop the deportation to allow the woman to be given a "credible fear" interview.

"And the Government has made it harder for them to assert a credible fear of persecution."

Unfortunately, such reluctance can be mistaken for a lack of "credible fear."

Each and every one of them is entitled to a hearing when they express a credible fear of being returned to their homeland.

The asylum officer believed Ms. Kwakuud, finding that she did have a credible fear.

Each is directed to interview people seeking asylum and exclude them if he finds that they do not have "a credible fear of persecution."