Coalition fights refugee concentration camp
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Staft: Paul Colvin, Larry Cooperman, Robin David, May May Gong, Gonzależ, Hayden Perry, Linda Ray, Marion Syrek, Sylvia Weinstein Published monthly by the Socialist Action Publishing Association, 3435 St., No. 308, San Francisco, CA 94110. Phone: (415) 821-0458. Subscriptions: U.S.: $6.00 for 12 issues; outside U.S.: $20.00.
Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views SAN FRANCISCO-The Coalition for Refugee Justice was formed March 30, 1984, as an emergency response to the new policy of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) of sending undocumented Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees rounded up in the Northern California area to places such as Florence, Ariz., and Las Vegas, Nev.
The extremely isolated facility in Florence was used as a concentration camp to hold Japanese-Americans during World War II. Refugee advocates in San Francisco believe the motive behind the INS' new policy is to hasten the deportations of these refugees by, in effect, denying them the legal and human service available to them in the San Francisco Bay area.
EL Community outrage over this policy sparked an initial planning meeting at which the coalition was formed. Twenty different organizations including Catholic Social Services, East Bay Sanctuary Churches, Council for Resources, Education and Assistance for Raza, Bay Area Asians for Nuclear Disarmament, Political Asylum Representation Project, Real Alternatives Program, Central American Refugee Project, and Socialist Action took part in the meeting.
The first major project the coalition has decided on will be a broadly sponsored public meeting to be held May 12 in San Francisco to educate the public and build support for the coalition's efforts to stop the forced removal of refugees out of the Bay Area and to stop the deportations.
THANK GOD WE DON'T HAVE ABSENTEE BALLOTS vo. Editor: Alan Benjamin Associate Editors: Mark Harris Michael Schreiber Business Manager: Kate Curry Editorial Board: Les Evans, Dianne Weinstein Action. These are expressed in editorials. April 1984 ACTION Feeley, Jeff Mackler, Jim Army