Mr. Speaker. today I am introducing a resolution urging the U.S. Attorney General to grant temporary safe haven (also known as extended voluntary departure status) to Guatemalans who have fled from the violence in their native land and sought refuge in the United States. Since the late 1970s. approximately 50.000 Guatemalan refugees have come to the United States. Another 200.000 have sought refuge in neighboring Mexico. Guatemalans have fled from the ongoing civil war between the government troops and guerrillas and from violence against those suspected of supporting the insurgents. Death squad killings and mysterious disappearances continue in Guatemala. In 1984. 90 Guatemalans a month were killed for political reasons. and the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States received documentation of an average of 80 disappearances a month for the year.
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