Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. El Salvador lived through a brutal civil war which left tens of thousands of people killed. over a quarter of the population driven from their homes and the economy in shambles. Hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans made their way to the United States seeking asylum out of fear of being killed by the military. the leftist guerrillas or the extreme right death squads. In fact. from fiscal year 1981 to fiscal year 1991. approximately 126.000 Salvadorans applied for asylum. That was a quarter of all our asylum applications in that timeframe. Meanwhile. similar events took place in Guatemala. Approximately 42.000 Guatemalans applied for asylum in the United States.
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