One point I would like to make. I think that it is important to bring to the attention of our colleagues one simple step we need to take to affect the lives of those suffering from the instability in Central America. Up to this point. the administration has declined to grant extended voluntary departure status for refugees from El Salvador. I believe that extended voluntary departure status is not the equivalent of asylum and does not involve any type of immigration status. Rather. it is a temporary standing granted by the Departments of Justice and State. which would allow Salvadorans to stay in the United States until such time as the administration determines that it is safe for them to return to their own country. It is a humanitarian action which I am sure many of my colleagues would support.
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