Government plans to deport those who have come to the United States for refuge. Of all those Salvadorans who apply for asylum. less than 4 percent will have their applications approved. Unlike the immigrants from Nicaragua. the Salvadorans will then have to be processed for employment authorization: a process which in itself could take months. We have developed a double standard and continue to provide preferential treatment to those from Nicaragua while we systematically deport Salvadorans even though they are generally equally deserving candidates. H.R. 618 will serve to provide equal protection to the citizens of both these nations by giving the General Accounting Office the opportunity to investigate and consider the human rights violations which take place both in El Salvador and Nicaragua. particularly against those who have been forced to leave the United States and return home. Other nations have been granted stays of deportation. and so the GAO will need to compare the conditions in these two nations with those who have been granted this status in the past. Extended voluntary departure is certainly not a solution for those individuals from either El Salvador nor Nicaragua. but as in the case of other nations who have been granted EDV status. allows them to remain in the United States until the situation in their nation stabilizes. In the past. extended voluntary departure has been granted at the discretion of the Attorney General. after consultation with the Secretary of State.
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