The time has simply passed this legislation by. Three Congresses ago it may have been very relevant. but the human rights situation has improved to such an extent that it is no longer relevant. The gentleman reminded me of our visit in April to Central America and the hours that we spent with the Intergovernmental Committee on Migration. representatives from all countries there. but particularly in El Salvador. where they were carrying out a request that we had initiated 11/2 years ago to monitor the return of the Salvadorans who either were deported to the United States or voluntarily departed. I think it is important to bear on this whole safety issue that has come up. that of the 9.530 returnees who kept in contact with ICOM. this is over a period of 11/2 years. 70 or less than 1 percent reported personal security problems. The breakdown after that is that of these. 75 had been accepted for resettlement by other countries. 32 were awaiting for resettlement by other countries. 13 were rejected for resettlement by other countries. 9 reported their problems resolved. 4 had left El Salvador by their own means. 1 was given a normal Canadian immigration form. 2 had died. 1 committed suicide and 1 was killed in a bar brawl. and 4 had not been located. Now I do not think that this type of factual data on the personal safety issue really warrants our turning around and turning our back on the work we put in for so many years on Immigration Reform and Control Act with employee sanctions which have not even been in effect for a month and here we are saying that we are going to make an exception and really do violence to the whole philosophy of immigration law since 1980 when we started to formalize this with rational structures. I think this is the wrong approach. I think it is unlikely ever to become a law and I join the gentleman from Florida in asking for a "no" vote.
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