Other returnees receive direct followup by 1CM or ICMcontract staff. Since the ICM program began in December 1984. 22 Salvadoran participants in the program have requested ICM assistance with resettlement outside El Salvador. These 22 have stated that they have had "security problems" upon their return to El Salvador and felt it unsafe to remain in their homeland. Mr. Speaker. I wish to reiterate that it is the general condition of violence and civil strife in El Salvador that justifies a stay of deportation for those Salvadorans fearing return to their homeland at this time. While I urge my colleagues to respect the humanitarian aspects of the ICM program
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