Mr. Chairman. since the beginning of 1980 apparently at least some 60.000. and in some reports perhaps as many as 150.000. El Salvadoran refugees have found their way to the United States. Those people for the most part have fled because of the war that has been ravaging their country. They have been and are being held by our Immigration and Naturalization Service people. and are being sent back. many of them. to the very conditions from which they fled. Although it is very difficult in most instances to specifically determine what happens to those people when they are sent back to the wartorn places from which they have come. there are reports that many found themselves subject not only to harassment and great danger some have been killed. What I am suggesting is that these El Salvadoran refugees. in essence. be treated the same way that in recent history nationals who fled from Vietnam. Laos. Iran. and Nicaragua have been treated.
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