Title: Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave - The New York Times
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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: or remain in the country at the risk of arrest and deportation as one of the millions of undocumented immigrants. His 14-year-old daughter, Tania, a fan of Disney movies and hip-hop music, said she could not fathom starting over in El Salvador. “ This is where I was born and am supposed to be raised,” she said. Temporary protections were granted to Salvadorans who were in the United States in March 2001 after two earthquakes in January and February of that year killed more than 1,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. Over the next 15 years, the George W. Bush and Obama administrations extended the protections several times. Image
Police officers search a group of men in a gang-ravaged neighborhood in San Salvador. While El Salvador has recovered from the earthquake damage, gang violence has prompted thousands to flee the country. Credit...
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In 2016, the final time, the government cited several factors, including drought, poverty and widespread gang violence in El Salvador, as reasons to keep the protections in place. El Salvador has rebuilt since the earthquakes. But the violence — San S