I traveled to Honduras. along with Representatives ROBERT EDGAR and BARBARA MIKULSKI. to examine first hand the effect which the current situation in El Salvador has had on the Salvadoran people. and on other countries in Central America. The U.N. High Commission on Refugees estimates that more than 20.000 Salvadoran refugees now live in Honduras. surviving on food provided by international relief agencies and on the charity of Honduran peasants who are desperately poor themselves. Representatives MIKULSKI and EDGAR traveled to the border region. itself. to talk to many of these refugees. and found them living in conditions of terrible malnutrition and poverty. Similar conditions exist in refugee camps within El Salvador. Last year. the American public was shocked to learn of the discovery of more than a dozen bodies in the Arizona desert. bodies of Salvadorans seeking refuge from the violence of their own country. Today.
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