Chairman. I rise in support of H.R. 618. The issue we are debating here today is one of equity. It is an issue of whether or not this body should provide equal treatment of refugees from El Salvador and Nicaragua. Immigrants from both El Salvador and Nicaragua face startling violence. brutality. and possible persecution at home. Yet. despite these harsh similarities. the administration is deporting almost all illegal immigrants from El Salvador while allowing Nicaraguans to stay. This unequal treatment is not only unfair. it is inhumane. I recognize that El Salvador and Nicaragua have vastly different forms of government.
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