Speech #990002343

I have seen that the overwhelming majority of the folks only talk about economic problems. There are one or two rare instances. of the hundreds that have gone back that are in fact concerned at all with anything that might remotely resemble a violation of any of their human rights as we would know them or political rights or concerns. However. the issue that has most concerned those in the United States wherein the Salvadoran question is deposited is with the deportees. those who we are forcibly returning. those who might have been in some way sympathetic to the guerrilla activity or whatever. We are returning those in fairly sizable numbers right now. averaging I think substantially better than 30 or more a week. and up until recently we did not have a very good method of pursuing what was happening to those folks. I can report from my own investigation and observation that the International Committee on Migration. which has its home office in Geneva and which Is an international organization. has taken on and is doing an outstanding job monitoring the return of those individuals we deport to El Salvador. and I think has got the matter well in tow.