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...what our legal system is like. They've only a known a corrupt legal system, and initially, they have no reason to trust me at all," Gordon says. Slowly, Gordon builds their trust, explains to them their options, and if they so choose, helps them apply for political asylum in the United States...
...odds of Central American aliens receiving asylum are extremely slim--Gordon says the government rejects 98 percent of the Guatemalans and 97 percent of the E1 Salvadorans. More than half of those applicants from the Soviet Union, Poland, and Libya are accepted, says Jean Butterfield, legal coordinator for Centro Presente...
...Centro Presente's clients has ever been deported. "So long as a refugee has a political asylum case in progress, they can't deport him. And when we lose, then we can appeal the case, and so long as the appeal is still in process, they have to let him stay," Gordon says. "We appeal all the cases. The appeals process is our only weapon--we are able to use the slow judicial process to buy time...
Gordon spends about 15 hours per week at Centro Presente, and says she is currently helping eight or nine clients who are fighting to gain political asylum...
Last summer, the native of Storrs, Connecticut went to Mexico to do research for her senior thesis on refugees from the Spanish Civil War who took asylum in the Mexican Embassies. Although international law in the 1930s dictated that Mexico--which was antifascist and leftist--had to accept all political refugees, these Spanish refugees were mostly conservative and fascist sympathizers...