We had a brutal military in El Salvador. You had death squads in El Salvador, and Salvadorans were coming to the United States and were not being granted asylum. By then, the Reagan administration and the Bush administration, and it seemed so blatantly political. And the congressman I was working for at the time, Joe Moakley from Boston, was really moved by the Salvadoran community. (00:12–00:16)
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