Trump Administration Rules That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave, Officials Say

The New York Times ^ | 08 Jan 2018 | Miriam Jordan

[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.

[WMarshal]

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.

[Bubba_Leroy]

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.

[Balding_Eagle]

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.

[Menehune56]

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

[Ancesthntr]

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

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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.

[tennmountainman]

Great news. Their country needs them.

[dragnet2]

[VietVet876]

Adios amigos.

[central_va]

Can I drive the ICE bus?

[dp0622]

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

money trumps patriotism anywhere sometimes.

[Cheerio]

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

[Cheerio]

Good...get them off of the USA dole. More WINNING.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

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.

[tired&retired]

Here’s the list that voted with Trump:

1. Guatemala

2. Honduras

3. Marshall Islands

4. Micronesia

5. Nauru

6. Palau

7. Togo

[ek_hornbeck]

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.

[KC_Lion]

Now THIS is Making America Great Again!

Truly Fantastic.

[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

[butlerweave]

Vacation is over ,time to go home

[rjsimmon]

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

[clintonh8r]

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