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After 17 years of 'legal life' in the US, a family considers its next move
MSN/ PRI THe World ^ | January 14, 2018

Posted on 01/14/2018 9:38:26 AM PST by SMGFan

Velasco received a 7 a.m. text from a friend, also from El Salvador. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will end a program that has allowed Velasco and her husband, her friend, and more than 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants to work and live in the US without fear of deportation. Velasco was not surprised. Neither was her husband.

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Well Goodbye. Rest assured El Salvador is not a S***hole.
1 posted on 01/14/2018 9:38:26 AM PST by SMGFan
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“Immigrant rights advocates argue that while that may be true — roads and homes damaged by the earthquake have been repaired over the years — new dangers remain, namely the country’s intense gang violence, fueling one of the world’s highest murder rates.
“We are first place in the worst way in Latin America,” Vanessa Velasco said. “The gangs have taken over. My family says, ‘You can’t come back. You’re going to bring your kids here? They don’t know this country, and they are doing well in the US. It will set them back.’”

Still not a S***hole!


2 posted on 01/14/2018 9:39:39 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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They weren’t surprised? Well, good. And, adios!


3 posted on 01/14/2018 9:39:45 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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ADIOS,PEDRO! HASTA LA VISTA!

I'm not even sure what that means! :-)

4 posted on 01/14/2018 9:40:37 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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Shouldn’t have been let in the first place.

Japan took ZERO of these people and felt fine about it.

We need to learn.


5 posted on 01/14/2018 9:41:42 AM PST by gaijin
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Adios, muchachos.


6 posted on 01/14/2018 9:43:12 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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Just a wild guess, but I'd say this family's next move would be to ... El Salvador.

Call me crazy ...

7 posted on 01/14/2018 9:44:11 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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EVERY illegal sob story stars with the cold open.

‘Conchita looked at her watch. It was 7 AM and her shift began in an hour....’

God I hate the media but I especially hate their laziness.


8 posted on 01/14/2018 9:44:55 AM PST by relictele
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Hasta la vista means “Until I see you again.” Which is probably appropriate since most of these sleazoids come back time after time.


9 posted on 01/14/2018 9:45:35 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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I am fighting back the tears.


10 posted on 01/14/2018 9:45:46 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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El Salvador is a s**thole. However, they had SEVENTEEN YEARS to gain normal legal status in the US, just like all the others. Some did - these people could not be bothered, so it’s their own fault.


11 posted on 01/14/2018 9:46:20 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Hondurans and Salvadorans sent something like 50,000 children north, to get them away from gang violence that has taken over their country. US authorities refuse to send them back because of the danger there.

And our government hesitates to repatriate Salvadorans already here for the same reason, the horrific gang violence and crime levels they would be sent back to.

But don’t dare say anything bad about those two countries.


12 posted on 01/14/2018 9:48:53 AM PST by marron
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However, they had SEVENTEEN YEARS to gain normal legal status in the US, just like all the others.

That is why I am not feeling their pain.

If they had wanted to become citizens they had multiple chances.

They wanted to keep their options open. Well, this is what happens.

13 posted on 01/14/2018 9:49:44 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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Now, if they had just learned English in that 17 years, they would know what,

T E M P O R A R Y

means...


14 posted on 01/14/2018 9:49:46 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A/O 01/12/18 DJIA business close 25,803.19, a 44.25% increase over the morning of 11/07/16.)
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These ingrates have been here for decades abusing the good will of American citizens. And now democrats want us to feel sorry for them?

Gimme a break. Go home and take your drug gang sons and daughters with us. Next time there's an earthquake many of us will fight to NOT let the victims in... BECAUSE YOU SQUATTER ABUSED OUR GOOD WILL.

Go home. Your country is a hellhole BECAUSE of your abusive exploitative culture. Fix that - make your own country worth living in...

15 posted on 01/14/2018 9:49:57 AM PST by GOPJ (The press is fed by the FBI & CIA - YOUR tax dollars at work - propping up establishment democrats.)
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It’s time for the citizens of other countries to return to their homes and apply what they’ve learned living here in the United States.


16 posted on 01/14/2018 9:50:24 AM PST by upsdriver
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These ingrates have been here for decades abusing the good will of American citizens. And now democrats want us to feel sorry for them?

Gimme a break. Go home and take your drug gang sons and daughters with YOU. Next time there's an earthquake many of us will fight to NOT let the victims in... BECAUSE YOU SQUATTER ABUSED OUR GOOD WILL.

Go home. Your country is a hellhole BECAUSE of your abusive exploitative culture. Fix that - make your own country worth living in...

17 posted on 01/14/2018 9:50:42 AM PST by GOPJ (The press is fed by the FBI & CIA - YOUR tax dollars at work - propping up establishment democrats.)
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Happy trails to you!


 

18 posted on 01/14/2018 9:50:47 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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They have been here 17 years, if they were so determined to remain in the US why did they not make any attempt to become naturalized citizens?


19 posted on 01/14/2018 9:53:01 AM PST by WP Lonestar (No matter where you go, there you are)
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Send them back armed


20 posted on 01/14/2018 9:57:04 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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