In recent weeks there has been a substantial increase in the number of border apprehensions of Salvadorans indicating an increase in migration. This means that we have about 10 percent of the 5 million population of El Salvador already in our country and more coming. The half a million here compares to less than 20.000 total who are refugees in the neighboring countries of Honduras and Guatemala. What is remarkable is not the number of people who have fled to the United States since the onset of the Civil War in El Salvador. but the number who have not and the potential number who will if the country falls to the Communist guerrillas. I am as concerned as anyone else here today with pressing the authorities in El Salvador to come to grips with the human rights violations that continue to occur.
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