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"We orient people as to what the legal process is in this country, and we assist them in making a decision about what they want," says Emilie J. Yozell, the attorney who operates the legal services at Centro Presente. "The paralegals do all of the intake, screening, case preparation, and...
Although only 3 percent of Central American refugees in the U.S. are eventually granted asylum, no one from Centro Presente has ever been deported, Thompson says. The U.S. government refuses to grant these exiles asylum on the grounds that they travel north for economic rather than political reasons. But Jennifer...
"These women are generally very poor people because they can't find jobs. I looked for places which would take children in for little money," says Annie F. Pforzheimer '86 about her volunteer work at Centro Presente last summer.
Centro Presente has also been participating in activities "to change the basic structures which are at the root of unjust immigration laws," Cummins says. Centro workers have targeted American foreign policy in Central American countries and domestic immigration laws which comply with these policies as their main problems, she says...
As 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...