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Mr. Diaz-Balart warned that such a law could threaten dissidents fleeing repressive regimes.

Britain has during the last two decades become a refuge unmatched in Europe for Muslim activists, scholars and clerics fleeing repressive governments in the Arab world or North Africa, and thus a center of Islamist influence.

It would also increase the burden of proof imposed on asylum seekers who are accused of being terrorists by their home governments, which critics said could threaten dissidents fleeing repressive governments.

That last phrase may have been one of the more alarming from Trump's address, implying, as it did, more extreme measures to come — the kind that might haunt the dreams of people fleeing repressive regimes or broken countries but were not contemplated in our Constitution.

With data gathered on vulnerable people, those at risk of persecution, this information could fall into the wrong hands when shared, as for example when Europol and EU law enforcement agencies attempted to access information collected by EURODAC, a transnational database established by the European Council where sensitive information was collected for asylum seekers fleeing repressive regimes.

Many staff and students have fled repressive regimes.

The diversity of Latinos in Texas is as broad as the state is large, from Tejanos who proudly trace their roots to long before white settlers arrived, to families who fled repressive regimes in Central America in the 1980s, to first-generation immigrants.

Liberty said: "There is a real danger that refugees and others who have fled repressive regimes to the safety of this country will become a legitimate target of the police merely because they support the overthrow of that regime, even if they themselves are opposed to violence".

Most were refugees who were resettled in New York after fleeing the repressive Khmer Rouge regime, which fell in 1979 and claimed nearly two million lives.

The UN believes that almost 4,000 Eritreans a month are secretly fleeing the repressive rule of the country's dictator, Isaias Afewerki; hundreds of thousands have already left.

Kurdish activists in Turkey have complained that Mr. Erdogan has ignored them while upholding the rights of others, like the Palestinians and, more recently, Syrians who are fleeing a repressive crackdown by their government.