Mr. Speaker. I rise today to express my continued concern regarding the current Reagan administration policy of deporting Salvadoran refugees now in the United States back to the violence and political unrest in their homeland. We deport. on average. about 100 Salvadorans a week. There are some who proclaim that in light of the recent elections in El Salvador that many of these refugees have nothing to fearand that they can go back to El Salvador without the threat of torture. imprisonment. or death. Though I am heartened. like many of my colleagues in Congress. by the election of Jose Napoleon Duarte. I am not so naive as to believe that he or anyone else can end overnight a brutal civil conflict that has been raging since 1979.
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