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LOS ANGELES Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, government officials announced Monday. It is the Trump administrations latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the most consequential to date.
Homeland security officials said that they were ending a humanitarian program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for Salvadorans who have been allowed to live and work legally in the United States since a pair of devastating earthquakes struck their country in 2001.
Salvadorans were by far the largest group of foreigners benefiting from temporary protected status, which shielded them from deportation if they had arrived in the United States illegally. The decision came just weeks after more than 45,000 Haitians, the second largest group, lost protections granted after Haitis 2010 earthquake, and it suggested that others in the program, namely Hondurans, may soon lose them as well. Nicaraguans lost their protections last year.
In the days leading up to the decision, immigrant advocates and the El Salvadoran government pleaded for the United States to extend the program, as it has several times since 2001, saying that conditions in El Salvador were still dire. A sense of dread gripped Salvadorans and their employers in California, Texas, Virginia and elsewhere.
We had hope that if we worked hard, paid our taxes and didnt get in trouble we would be allowed to stay, said Veronica Lagunas, 39, a Salvadoran who works overnight cleaning offices in Los Angeles, has two children born in the United States and owns a mobile home.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/us/salvadorans-tps-end.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
My thoughts: I thought Donnie was only going to get rid of the "bad hombres", not law-abiding tax paying citizens with young children. Another one of his lies. He just wants to "Make America White Again."
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,112 posts)This is another racist move to fire up his base, but it alienates everyone else.
Ohiogal
(34,640 posts)his dismissal of Puerto Rico, and his general disdain for anyone who isn't white ....
I can't imagine that any Hispanics would vote Republican!
Motley13
(3,867 posts)they escaped gangs
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Tribe needs to add more folks that must go. More bad hombres
All you Black folks, you must go
All you Mexicans, you must go
And all you poor folks, you must go
Muslims and gays
Boy, we hate your ways
So all you bad folks, you must go