Yet the students who have spoken out may now be in real danger if they return to their own country. Every standard of humanity requires that our Nations offer these students refuge here until their safety is assured at home. Perhaps the most important aspect of this bill is that it will standardize the procedure for granting temporary stays of deportation. Refugees. spawned by the sad and tragic forces of warfare. should not be subject to the vagaries of our domestic politics as well. By establishIng identifiable conditionssuch as armed conflict or natural disasterwhich create unsafe conditions for returning refugees. we will be using objective factors to formulate our deportation policy. Nothing less than common decency demands that we be fair and objective when determining the fate of immigrants and refugees. Our recent domestic political squabble over the relative merits of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans as political refugees should never be repeated. It is also critically important that we codify the deportation suspension for Chinese as well. I am pleased that INS has ceased enforcing departure for Chinese who were in the United States on June 6. but it is vital that we give the Chinese residents the additional longterm protection that this bill provides. Unfortunately. this legislation does not confront all the problems facing Chinese students in this country.
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