There are also opponents of this proposal. as it pertains to Salvadorans. who hide behind the smokescreen provided them by a small program in El Salvador. conducted by the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration. ICM is a reception and counseling service. nothing more. "To suggest that its something else is false." according to ICMs Washington representative. The socalled ICM report that many cite is methodologically flawed and. according to ICM. is "not a scientific data base on which to construct definitive analyses of situations of returnees." Finally. many of the opponents of this measure argue that those fleeing Central America are economic migrants. But in the case of the Salvadorans. the Census Bureau testified before the House last year that there were only 94.000 Salvadorans in the United States in 1980 both legally and illegally combined. The current flow of Salvadorans. says the Census Bureau. began only with the escalation of violence that immediately followed the assassination of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1981.
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