Mr. Speaker. when I heard the gentleman from New Mexico hold forth on the equivalence of the refugee situation from Nicaragua and El Salvador. I began to wonder whether the gentleman is aware that one of those countries is a budding democracy and the other of those countries is a budding totalitarian Communist state. The rationale behind allowing refugees from a country denying them all of their human rights and refugees from another country which has not repressed human rights in any way. shape or form. as the Nicaraguans have. makes no sense. It seems to me that there is a very natural differential between the treatment of refugees from Nicaragua and the treatment of refugees from El Salvador.
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