The search for answers in the Jesuit case was only part of Moakley’s agenda for El Salvador. Since 1983, he’d been pushing his bill to create a temporary status for Salvadorans living in the US that would protect them against deportation during the war. “It’s our bombs, our guns, and our mines that made these people refugees,” he said. Yet each time he and his Senate colleague Dennis DeConcini introduced the measure, it died in committee.
