Word: centro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Centro Presente, a support agency for Boston-area Central American refugees, an E1 Salvadoran explains his predicament to Jennifer Gordon '87. He tells her he came to America four years ago and has just received a phone call informing him that his wife and two young children were arrested while trying to cross the border between Mexico and Texas...
...Gordon to meet a refugee like this man is not unusual. She says, "People often come into Centro Presente in really desperate situations...
...part of their effort to change the laws, the center has joined several class action suits intended to change current immigration policies on local, state and national levels. Recently, in the case Centro Presente vs. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the center succeeded inestablishing that refugees who were arrested andheld in the local detention center have the rightto see visitors, including legal representatives."Now, legal services have open access toplaintiffs," Yozell says...
Students from Harvard have volunteered atCentro Presente in previous years, but this is thefirst year that the center has actually made aneffort to reach out to college students. InSeptember, Gordon, the Harvard-Centro liaison, hada meeting for people who responded to postersasking for bilingual students who speak Spanish...
Although most positions for students at thecenter are on a volunteer basis, two Harvardstudents currently receive money from federal andstate student employment programs for their workat Centro Presente...