Title: Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave - The New York Times
Headings: Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave
Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave
Omar Salinas has Temporary Protected Status, which is granted to U.S. immigrants from countries crippled by disaster or war. The Trump administration has announced that it will end the program.
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Content: Ms. Lagunas said that she would remain in the United States illegally, risking arrest and deportation. But she would lose her job of 12 years without the work permit that comes with the protection. Her family would lose medical insurance and other benefits. “There is nothing to go back to in El Salvador,” she said, speaking in Spanish. “ The infrastructure may be better now, but the country is in no condition to receive us.” Image
A landslide in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, following an earthquake in January 2001. Citing damage from the earthquake, the American government permitted Salvadorans illegally in the U.S. to remain. Credit...
La Prensa Grafica, via Associated Press
With his protected status, Carlos Jiron, another Salvadoran, started a small contracting business and won bids for big jobs, including to paint federal buildings in the Washington area. “We have built a life here,” said Mr. Jiron, 41, who lives with his wife and two American-born children in a four-bedroom house they bought in Springfield, Va.
He will have to decide whether to take his children to El Salvador, where he says they would not maximize their potential and would face safety threats; leave them with guardians in the United States;