U.S. Urged to Stop Deporting Salvadorans
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Joe Moakley (D-Mass.), citing a decision of El Salvador’s president to send three of his daughters and his grandchildren to the United States for their safety, urged the Administration on Thursday to stop deporting Salvadoran refugees.
“The recent decision of President Jose Napoleon Duarte . . . dramatizes the fears that so many Salvadoran refugees who have fled their country must feel,” said Moakley, sponsor of a bill that would grant a temporary stay of deportation to Salvadoran refugees already living in the United States.
Duarte’s eldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, was kidnaped by leftist guerrillas Sept. 10.
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