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AFSC/Human Rights/Immigration//Policy shift may speed up deportations/Myrtle Beach Sun News/Myrtle Beach /FL/USA/14-Feb-07/McClatchy/Now a South Florida immigrant rights activist for the Quaker human rights organization American Friends Service Committee, Martinez, 47, was among tens of thousands of Salvadorans who in the 1980s were discouraged from seeking asylum. That practice ended in 1988 when a Los Angeles federal judge issued an injunction ordering immigration authorities to advise Salvadoran immigrants about their right to seek asylum....

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AFSC/Politics and Economics/Immigration//Bilbray courts Dems on immigration reform/North County Times/Ventura/CA/USA/8-Feb-07//On Tuesday, the national coordinator of the Philadelphia-based Quaker organization American Friends Services Committee, said that he expects Bilbray's ...