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...Administration seemed squarely at odds with itself last week over the prickly issue of refugees from Central America. In Florida, Perry Rivkind, the district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that he would not deport citizens from Nicaragua who seek political asylum in the U.S. In Arizona, the Justice Department wound up its prosecution of eleven church workers accused of smuggling aliens from El Salvador and Guatemala into the U.S. -- even though these illegal immigrants also claimed that they feared persecution in their home countries...
...When someone walks in the door, they get an appointment with a paralegal. At the first meeting, we determine if they fear going back to their country, and if they do, they can petition for political asylum. To do this, you have to show well-founded fear," says Eric E. Thompson '87, who is in his third year as a Centro Presente paralegal...
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 L. Gordon '87, a paralegal at Centro Presente, says she disagrees with the government's deportations. "In all the cases I've seen, initially some people will say that they're here just because they can't make enough money, but when you talk to them more, and they trust...
...common knowledge that the U.S., because of its own economic interests and show of power, controls governments in Central America," says Sister Rosemarie Cummins, founder of the organization. Cummins, says that it would be contradictory for the American government to grant political asylum to people who who have fled the very countries America supports...
...federal government, which has deported almost all Salvadorans who have applied for political asylum under the law, claims the illegal aliens are economic rather than political refugees who seek jobs in this country...