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Community activist Victor Toro of Longwood, Bronx will soon find out whether officials consider him to be a threat to the United States. On Monday, he is due in immigration court to learn if he will be deported back to Chile or granted political asylum.

Toro's lawyer, Carlos Moreno, said the government wants his client out and plans to paint him as a terrorist.

"Any mention of the word 'terrorist' will prejudice the judge and will get in the way of Victor getting a fair hearing," said Moreno.

Toro illegally came to the United States decades ago. In 2007, border patrol agents arrested Toro in a random sweep in Rochester, N.Y. as he was traveling back to the Bronx on Amtrak from an immigration rally.

Supporters of Toro say they believe immigration officials will use secret CIA documents from 1974 to try to prove he is a danger.

"That's one of the motivations of the government in its attempt to destroy this social fighter that has worked here in the south Bronx for 25 years, fighting beside the homeless. That is not terrorism," said Toro through a translator.

Toro's supporters got hold of the CIA papers under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents detail Toro's fight against the military dictatorship that took control of his homeland in a bloody coup.

"An illegal government, a government lead by a dictator, [General Augusto] Pinochet, which overthrew the democratically-elected government of [President Salvador] Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973," said Moreno.

The CIA supported the Pinochet regime against its opponents. One document reads, "It is recognized that small groups of fanatical leftists could carry out terrorist actions should they be so declined to do so."

The papers go on to say, "The smaller, extremist faction advocates immediate action against the government and has experienced personnel and access to arms for this purpose. This extremist faction is led by Victor Toro."

Under Pinochet's dictatorship, Toro was soon imprisoned.

"Now, on April 20, 1974, less than a year of the dictatorship, I was arrested. And I was in jail for three years, in the concentration camps," said Toro through translation.

After Toro was freed, he eventually made his way to the United States. His supporters say if Toro is sent back to Chile, he could be imprisoned again or even killed.

"To this day we have members of Pinochet's regime who are in power [in Chile] -- power politically, economically, militarily," said Gonzalo "G1" Venegas, a local supporter of Toro.

Toro said he has made a productive life in the South Bronx and that is where he wants to stay.