Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : INS to Review Asylum Requests
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Immigration and Naturalization Service announced it was ready to comply with a 1991 court settlement and resolve the asylum cases of 250,000 Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees living in legal limbo in the United States, some for more than a decade. The settlement resolved a 1958 class-action suit that accused the federal government of using improper political factors to deny asylum for people who fled El Salvador and Guatemala to escape civil war.
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