Guatemalan political asylum seekers in danger of being deported

Immigration activists estimate that up to 250,000 Guatemalans who escaped their country’s civil war in the 1990s and sought asylum in the U.S. will be deported back to their homelands. The Guatemalans’ asylum cases should have been decided shortly after that country's civil war ended in 1996 but that was prevented by an enormous backlog of asylum cases at the offices of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. In the meantime, asylum seekers that have established themselves in the U.S. for as long as 20 years are scared of possible reprisals if they are deported back to Guatemala.

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