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For Gordon to meet a refugee like this man is not unusual. She says, "People often come into Centro Presente in really desperate situations."
In a 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 him.
But the 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...
Not one of 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...
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.