U.S. Govt sued over boy
NZPA-Reuter Chicago. The parents of a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy who says he does not want to return to the Soviet Union yesterday filed a $200,000 suit against the United States Immigration and Naturalisation Service. The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf • of Michael and Anna Polovchak, alleged that their constitutional rights of due process, privacy and equal protection had been violated. The suit asked that their son, Walter, who has
;.,been placed in a , foster home pending a custody hearing next inonth, be returned to them. > The suit also sought the lifting of an order by the '■United States Immigration Service granting the boy . asylum in the United States. The Polovchaks, their son, and a daughter, Natalie, aged 17, arrived in Chicago in January from the Soviet Ukraine. In July Walter ran away from home and sought 'asylum in the United States after learning that ; his parents planned to return to the Soviet Union.
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