D.C. D&aR MR. PnzswzNr: I am writing in response to the State Departments June 1st Guidance Statement reiterating its opposition to Extended Voluntary Departure Status (EVDS) for Salvadoran refugees. The Administrations position is based on the assumption that EVDS would encourage illegal immigration and that Salvadoran nationals pass through other countries where they may take refuge. I believe both assumptions are incorrect and misleading in this context. I encourage you to review the State Departments position and order the Department to issue a revised Guidance Statement which adopts a policy of EVDS for Salvadoran refugees. Under this Administration. asylum has been denied to most of the Salvadoran nationals. Between October 1982 and January 1983. out of 1.139 applicants for asylum. the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) District Directors granted only 61 requests. The remaining 1.078 were deported. Upon their return to El Salvador. many of
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