Description: Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees will get second chance to have asylum applications reviewed by immigration service. Visit with refugee in Chelsea. INS office door. Border crossing surveillance tape.
Description: John Silber defends controversial remark about the state being "welfare magnet" for immigrants. Blames reporters for distortion. Microphones being taped together for press conference.
Description: Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee students excel at private Cathedral High. If general relief fund which supports them is cut, their education will be in jeopardy. Southeast Asian names on honor roll.
Description: As many as 25,000 Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese make up Southeast Asian community in Lowell. Mayor Richard Howe tells how this burdens schools & services. Cambodian newscast on cable tv.
Description: Lowell faces major budget deficit in trying to serve large population of Southeast Asian refugees; requests federal assistance. Cambodian immigrant workers in restaurant & grocery. Mayor Richard Howe
Description: Soviet émigrée (to Israel) Dorina Paritsky comes to Boston to rally political support for her refusenik parents, repeatedly denied exit visas for unknown reason.
Description: On occasion of Gorbachev's visit to US, Soviet émigrés who live in Boston give their impressions of life here vs. there. Russian Orthodox Church in Roslindale, exterior and interior, bell ringing.