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Trump Administration Rules That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave, Officials Say
The New York Times ^ | 08 Jan 2018 | Miriam Jordan

Posted on 01/08/2018 7:45:18 AM PST by Theoria

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, two government officials familiar with the decision said on Monday. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the most consequential to date.

The officials, who declined to be identified because they were speaking before an official announcement on the decision later Monday morning, said that the administration was 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 Haiti’s 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adios; aliens; bordersecurity; elsalvador; fourth100days; immigration; ms13; trump; trumpdhs; winning
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To: Theoria

Which way did El Salvador vote in the UN regarding the declaration of the US embassy move to Jerusalem?

Hmmmm.. They voted against the US, sucks to be them.


21 posted on 01/08/2018 8:01:58 AM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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To: Theoria

Several carefully chosen Obama appointed federal judges will rule that they cannot be deported. It will be tied up in the courts for years to come.


22 posted on 01/08/2018 8:04:31 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Theoria
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.

The lawsuit (of course there will be a lawsuit) will claim they have been allowed here too long to be expelled.

23 posted on 01/08/2018 8:06:43 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Unfortunately the left never accepts defeat. They go to the courts until they get the ruling they like and then it’s settled law..


24 posted on 01/08/2018 8:07:27 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: rjsimmon

“How long do liberals believe “temporary” should be?”


Forever, if the person or program gives them votes, money or both. Note that “Affirmative Action” (i.e. racial quotas for descendants of slaves and other pro-Dem groups) was also supposed to be temporary. Yeah, like we still need it some 40 years and a Black President later...not enough that I was discriminated against for school and work, now it is my kids’ turn (despite no members of our family having even BEEN in the country during slavery, and my kids having been born 40 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed).

I am getting SICK AND TIRED of preferences for those that either didn’t suffer, or don’t need them.


25 posted on 01/08/2018 8:08:53 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Theoria

Great news. Their country needs them.


26 posted on 01/08/2018 8:09:15 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Theoria

27 posted on 01/08/2018 8:10:40 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Theoria

Adios amigos.


28 posted on 01/08/2018 8:12:05 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: Theoria

Can I drive the ICE bus?


29 posted on 01/08/2018 8:13:30 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Theoria

Why were they hired in TX, VA and CA to begin with?

money trumps patriotism anywhere sometimes.


30 posted on 01/08/2018 8:13:46 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Theoria

How much more winning can we take!!!!! MAGA


31 posted on 01/08/2018 8:14:29 AM PST by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: EagleUSA
Good...get them off of the USA dole. More WINNING.






32 posted on 01/08/2018 8:16:52 AM PST by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: rjsimmon
How long do liberals believe “temporary” should be?

Leftists and RINOs use the word "Temporary" to get their foot in the door.

But their true intent is that no leftist wealth redistribution program will ever be anything other than permanent.


33 posted on 01/08/2018 8:17:06 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Remember That Diversity Is The Opposite Of Unity.)
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To: WMarshal

Here’s the list that voted with Trump:

1. Guatemala

2. Honduras

3. Marshall Islands

4. Micronesia

5. Nauru

6. Palau

7. Togo


34 posted on 01/08/2018 8:17:07 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Theoria

Since (along with Honduras) El Salvador has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world and is the breeding ground for the MS 13 gang, these 200,000 won’t be missed.


35 posted on 01/08/2018 8:17:36 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Theoria; beaversmom; Bodleian_Girl
Now THIS is Making America Great Again!

Truly Fantastic.

36 posted on 01/08/2018 8:17:51 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: tired&retired

Another 35 nations abstained from the 128-9 vote.

Here’s the list:

1. Antigua-Barbuda

2. Argentina

3. Australia

4. Bahamas

5. Benin

6. Bhutan

7. Bosnia-Herzegovina

8. Cameroon

9. Canada

10. Colombia

11. Croatia

12. Czech Republic

13. Dominican Republic

14. Equatorial Guinea

15. Fiji

16. Haiti

17. Hungary

18. Jamaica

19. Kiribati

20. Latvia

21. Lesotho

22. Malawi

23. Mexico

24. Panama

25. Paraguay

26. Philippines

27. Poland

28. Romania

29. Rwanda

30. Solomon Islands

31. South Sudan

32. Trinidad-Tobago

33. Tuvalu

34. Uganda

35. Vanuatu


37 posted on 01/08/2018 8:18:09 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Theoria

Vacation is over ,time to go home


38 posted on 01/08/2018 8:19:08 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Vlad The Inhaler; Ancesthntr

Absolutely on point. Temporary, like the EPA or 1% income tax...


39 posted on 01/08/2018 8:19:15 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Theoria

Somewhere there’s a federal judge who’ll stop it.


40 posted on 01/08/2018 8:20:41 AM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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