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Meet El Salvador's growing middle class: Deportees from the U.S.
LA Times ^ | 3-17-17 | Kate Linthicum

Posted on 03/17/2017 5:06:19 PM PDT by SJackson

The smell of slow-cooked Texas barbecue wafted over the outskirts of San Salvador as Jose Reyes cracked open another beer. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and Reyes had gathered with several dozen friends in a parking lot outside a stadium where the game would be screened. Dressed in baggy NFL and college jerseys, they traded jokes in English between bites of pulled pork and hamburgers.

Reyes was deported from the United States in 2001 after serving a prison sentence for wounding two people in a shooting in Houston when he was 17. His mother had brought him to the U.S. as a baby, and when he stepped off an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in El Salvador, he had no recollection of the country of his birth.

Now he is 39 and thriving as a manager at an English-language call center that takes questions from AT&T customers in the United States. He and his friends, other U.S. deportees also working in call centers, earn well over El Salvador's minimum wage.

Among the Central Americans caught in a decades-long cycle of migration and deportation, Reyes is one of the more fortunate ones.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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Good for them, they can make El Salvador great again.
1 posted on 03/17/2017 5:06:19 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
WELL SAID!

2 posted on 03/17/2017 5:12:39 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SJackson
How come Reyes was deported from the United States in 2001 after serving a prison sentence for wounding two people in a shoot...

is delivered like, he was punished for coloring outside the lines?

3 posted on 03/17/2017 5:31:33 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: NativeSon

They was only just wounded...


4 posted on 03/17/2017 5:59:19 PM PDT by ichabod1 (The Wise Cracker)
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To: SJackson
Read the entire article.

Left wing propaganda at its finest from our pals at the L.A. Times.

Lots of tugging at the heartstrings.

Anyone think that the homies in the article (at the end) really stood for the Star Spangled Banner?

You know, because I have this spare bridge that I need to sell...

5 posted on 03/17/2017 6:07:30 PM PDT by SIDENET (My next tagline will be so awesome.)
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To: SIDENET

MS-13 drug money.


6 posted on 03/17/2017 6:38:07 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SJackson

What liberals do not talk about is that those countries are absolutely horrible for women. The abuses in El Salvador are horrible.


7 posted on 03/17/2017 6:46:38 PM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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