I believe that the State Departments case ignores the crucial testimony of Americans who have been to El Salvador and. more importantly. the Salvadorans who have entered this Nation. Who in the Chamber has not heard accounts of atrocities. random violence. and deliberate sabotage committed by both extremes in the conflict in El Salvador and committed against innocent civilians? The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees determined in its September 1981 study that the large number of Salvadorans who enter the United States illegally is casually related to the internal strife in El Salvador. and a comparison of INS yearly totals of Salvadorans in this country helps to confirm this determination. Yet the State Department ignores this evidence in favor of a carefully tailored. impersonal overview of the situation in El Salvador. The granting of blanket periods of voluntary departure is not a particularly unusual means for the State Department to deal with immigrants from nations under the throes of civil war. For varying lengths of time during the past 5 years aliens from Ethiopia. Uganda.
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