I thank the gentleman for yielding. I think it might be important to point out for our colleagues who may not be aware of it that the 1980 Refugee Act in addition to establishing a procedure that was supposed to apply universally for the first time adopted an expanded definition of refugees. It was the international protocol definition. So it made it easier. rather than more difficult. for people to be determined to be refugees. The second thing is I think the gentleman made an excellent point about areas of civil strife in the world. Is it fair to grant this country a specific exception in this case. to everybody who is here from El Salvador and not the people from the Philippines?
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