Word: centro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation like this one, Gordon, as a paralegal, would help the man to get his wife and children out of detention. She might also see if the social services or educational components of Centro Presente might help...
...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...
When Gordon started working for Centro Presente in June, 1985, there were almost no Harvard students involved in the group. Now, more than half a dozen students serve as paralegals at the organization, Butterfield says...