Mr. Speaker. today I am introducing for myself and 12 of our colleagues a House resolution expressing the sense of the House that refugees from El Salvador should be given temporary haven in the United States. Current policy is to detain. deport. and return these refugees to the dangerous situation in El Salvador which they fled. Unless the Immigration and Naturalization Service grants the refugees what is formally called extended voluntary departure status. thousands of refugees could be forced back to their warravaged nation. The INS is now deporting an estimated 400 refugees each month and has estimated that as many as 60.000 Salvadorans fled El Salvador and came to the United States in 1980 alone. More than 11.000 refugees are currently being detained in refuge centers in several locations across the Nation. Extended voluntary departure status has been granted routinely in several cases in recent history. including those involving Vietnamese. Laotians.
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