Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When someone walks in the door, they get an appointment with a paralegal. At the first meeting, we determine if they fear going back to their country, and if they do, they can petition for political asylum. To do this, you have to show well-founded fear," says Eric E. Thompson '87, who is in his third year as a Centro Presente paralegal...
Although only 3 percent of Central American refugees in the U.S. are eventually granted asylum, no one from Centro Presente has ever been deported, Thompson says. The U.S. government refuses to grant these exiles asylum on the grounds that they travel north for economic rather than political reasons. But Jennifer L. Gordon '87, a paralegal at Centro Presente, says she disagrees with the government's deportations. "In all the cases I've seen, initially some people will say that they're here just because they can't make enough money, but when you talk to them more, and they trust...
...October 24, 1985, Miroslaw Medved jumped into the Mississippi River from a Soviet freighter and swam frantically, seeking asylum. For screw up number one, enter the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The INS, at its bureaucratic best, returned Medved, who was kicking and screaming, to his ship, clearly against his will...
...performance of the season. Kurtz barks and mewls like a dog, she wanders vacant-eyed like Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, she throws things and lapses into catatonia, all the while comprehending everything that goes on except how to avoid being packed off to the asylum of the title. She too has yearned for celebrity. In what seems a metaphor for the state of all the characters, she can hardly get herself noticed in her own home. W.A.H...
...products they market. Time for a change, he figures; time to renounce the world and search for purity in the woods with Honey Barbara (Helen Jones), an aggressively free spirit who keeps bees and thrives on their honey. But the world renounces Harry first, exiling him to an asylum for the terminally idealistic...