Possible Clues:

• Asylum seeker
• Muslim leader, not a current president, one unfairly scapegoated by tabloids?
• As new settler I am going one way and another to get permit
• Incomer could be upset by a trimming
• I'm getting money for the road as I enter the country
• I am getting so fast as a fighter so as to get in
• Settler
• He's moved in - a very short distance, I admit
• It's grand the way I am before I give away one that comes in
• One joining country road observed both ways, then drove into fast car