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Centro Presente helps refugees adjust to life in the U.S., primarily educating the aliens about immigration procedures and, if necessary, representing them at Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) hearings. The non-profit group is staffed by attorneys and other trained volunteers, including Harvard students.
Most Harvard students who work at the center participate in a program which enables them to act as legal counselors in handling immigration cases. Centro Presente is accredited by INS to supervise such activities, and students who hold these positions, called paralegals, are required to know Spanish fluently and to...
Across the nation, more than 100 schools staged similar teach-ins, sit-ins or rallies to discuss the role of democracy and ethics in their universities.
On 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...
The city's moves against the homeless have not gone unchallenged. In 1984 some 30 homeless people marched on Reagan's ranch, and recent weeks have brought several sleep-ins at city hall. "The laws haven't been a deterrent," argues Attorney Willard Hastings, director of the Legal Defense Center...