The Senator from Arizona is speaking. I know. from the best of motives. yet I would resist this sense of the Senate resolution. Here we are again in the area of immigration and refugee policy. When we are in that area. we are in the arena of emotion. guilt. fear. and racism. I said that before in this Chamber. I do not do that to be dramatic. But if there was ever an area where we are addressing an issue out of guilt or emotionalism. this is it. Let me tell Senators that the chief counsel and staff director of the Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcommittee have just returned from El Salvador with very important information which is contained in a report which will be available to each and every one of us in a few days indicating that there is clear evidence that those who return to El Salvador are not subject to political persecution and are not harmed other than being subject to the same danger as any other citizen would be in a country that is in certain turmoil. Today it is estimated that there are over 500.000 Salvadorans in the United States in illegal immigration statusillegal. undocumented work~rs. There are groups in the United States. and the Senator from Arizona speaks of those. who speak for and ask for extended voluntary departure for those people until the conflict in El Salvador should subside. The United States has done that before.
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