More than 500.000 Salvadoran citizens have been forced to leave their homes. Half that number now seek temporary safe haven outside of their home country. But though we granted refugee statute to those who sought safe haven here from Indochina. the State Department will not recognize the identical needs of those people fleeing El Salvador. Extended voluntary departure status is a temporary solution for Salvadoran refugees. These people have no wish to emigrate. they want to live in their homeland. By granting them refugee status. we grant them the opportunity to live to see their countries safe again. By deporting them. as the Immigration Service is now told to do. we sign many of their death warrants. Providing a temporary safe haven for these displaced people. while actively pursuing an end to the conflict and the development of strong economies in the region is the only sane. humane road for the United States to take. Our military involvement must not be allowed to continue on its present course. our ends cannot be met by such measures. and progress will certainly not be served.e
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