When once I prompted them and said. "Are things not really going as well as you would like in El Salvador?" He said. "Oh. yes. that is true." But without any prompting. asking him questions why he was here. and this was in each instance I asked people in El Centro in detention awaiting being sent back to El Salvador. they admitted to me that they were here for economic reasons. An April 30. 1987. editorial statement in the New York Times perhaps sums it up best. It says this: To grant the Salvadorans temporary refuge on the basis of Mr. Duartes economic appeal would twist the idea of refugee into subsidy. That distortion would extract an intolerably high price. vitiating the new immigration law even before it goes into effect. Instantly. the international grapevine would spread the word. "See. the Yankees arent really serious. Forget all the talk about a tough new law.
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