Chairman. I would like to rise in opposition to the McCollum amendment. The provisions of the bill to suspend the detention and deportation of illegal immigrants from El Salvador. Lebanon. Liberia. and Kuwait are very important. This bill creates a systematic approach to providing temporary protected status for certain foreign nationals whose countries are in the midst of a war or natural disaster. Mr. Chairman. as you know. I cosponsored a similar piece of legislation that would have offered this same type of remedy to the Lebanese Immigrants who can not return to their homes because of the civil war raging there. I support extending this same status to these four groups of people from Lebanon. El Salvador.
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