The Nation - News from July 1, 1987
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The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would suspend deportations of refugees from Nicaragua and El Salvador for two years, a move adamantly opposed by the Reagan Administration. The legislation would give a special status, called “extended voluntary departure,” to refugees from those war-torn countries while the General Accounting Office studies whether they would face persecution back home. The committee vote was 20 to 15, split on party lines.
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