; Whereas the international and Salvadoran outcry in response to the deaths of the six Jesuits and two women and the subsequent investigations into this crime served as a catalyst for the United Nations-mediated negotiations that led to the signing of the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, marking a formal ending to the civil war; Whereas the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords created a foundational framework for a more open and democratic society in El Salvador, limiting the mandate of the Armed Forces to national defense, to help guard against their historic abuses in internal security matters; Whereas throughout the course of the war and for years following the formal ending of the civil war and the failure to implement the transitional justice reform called for by the Chapultepec Peace Accords, tens of thousands of Salvadorans migrated to the United States and other countries around the world to find refuge due to dangerous living conditions in El Salvador; Whereas the United States lacked adequate services for the resettlement of Salvadoran refugees, exacerbating poverty and violence in Salvadoran refugee communities struggling to build a new life in the United States and throughout Mexico and Central America; Whereas the United States deported thousands of Salvadorans to El Salvador without adequately supporting the Salvadoran authorities to establish the means and institutions in place to absorb this population while protecting the safety of Salvadorans; Whereas after deportation, some of these individuals organized into armed gangs that continue to threaten El Salvador, Central America, and North America today; and Whereas the country of El Salvador continues to be ravaged by the aftermath of the civil war as political violence continues to threaten the daily lives of the Salvadoran people: Now, therefore, be it