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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Bingo!
And they can take that MS-13 trash with them.
See ya! MAGA! :)
They have been exposed to how a functioning country operates. They have desperately needed skills to rebuild their own country. They should be thrilled to contribute to advancing their country
“The administration is giving Salvadorans in the program until September 2019 to get their affairs in order. After that, they no longer will have permission to stay in the country, forcing them into a wrenching decision.”
they have until sept 2019? why not end of this week and they have to go? So much damage these people told they have until a certain date to get out can do in all sorts of ways between now and then........ they took advantage of the generosity of the US and the bogus “temporary protection” system.
Ouch, sept 2019. Sounds like the trump daca program.
Bye, Felicia!
CC
More winning!
Few weeks? Sure, what can we do to help?
Few months? Sure, you've lost everything, let's give you a hand up until you get back on your feet....
A year? Well....er..... So when are you moving off our couch and back into your own place?
But after nearly Two Decades?? Git out. Don't the door hit you on the way.
ALL RIGHT! Finally! Make El Salvador great again!
I’m still not tired of winning. Yet. But I can see how we could eventually get bored with winning. I like bored!
Leave by yourselves before midnight March 1, 2018. As of that time, your assets will be seized and you will be arrested pending immediate deportation. Get OUT!
Cool.
The operative word is temporary. This is the way the law is supposed to work.
As long as they vote democrat.
How long do liberals believe “temporary” should be
Forever.
Door. Don’t let it hit you.
That money === 1/4 of the cost of The WALL???
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