 CARECEN offices at Wilshire and Bonnie Brae Street. TPS-DED applicants. |
1990 After the success of the FMLN offensive, U.S. awareness that the war would not end soon in El Salvador, coupled with CARECEN’s "Ningun Ser Humano es Illegal" national campaign, leads the US government to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for those fleeing the war. Congress settles the ABC law suit. The ABC settlement requires the INS to provide new and fair asylum interviews to over 250,000 Guatemalan and Salvadoran asylum applicants. This litigation also allows 250,000 ABC class members and their family members to obtain employment authorization from 1991 to the present. But this is only a partial victory because refugees who arrive in the U.S. after 1990 are not eligible for these programs and thousands continue to be detained and deported by the INS. CARECEN registers more than 1,000 Salvadorans for the TPS program. In addition, it works closely with CRECEN on a campaign to extend the 18 month TPS term and allow Salvadorans to remain in the US legally until it is safe for them to return to El Salvador. CARECEN organizes and sends three delegations of lawyers and legal workers to El Salvador to investigate specific incidents of human rights violations and to publicize and challenge those violations in international tribunals. In May, CARECEN-Los Angeles and CARECEN-San Francisco organize a joint delegation of six attorneys and legal workers to investigate the Salvadoran judicial system and the treatment of political prisoners. |