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Herman Martinez fled when right-wing death squads targeted him and many other leftists in El Salvador. He sneaked into the United States in August 1980, and remained undetected until immigration agents detained him at a Homestead tomato farm in May 1985 and placed him in deportation proceedings. Martinez asked for asylum, but immigration authorities did not believe his story and pressured him to voluntarily return home. Read the full story |
