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| Donald Trump takes away right to remain in US from 260,000 Salvadorans | Donald Trump takes away right to remain in US from 260,000 Salvadorans |
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| Donald Trump has declined to renew the temporary protected status of Salvadoran immigrants to the US, giving an estimated 263,000 people less than two years to leave the country or be deported. | Donald Trump has declined to renew the temporary protected status of Salvadoran immigrants to the US, giving an estimated 263,000 people less than two years to leave the country or be deported. |
| The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation has allowed immigrants from El Salvador to live and work in the US since 2001, when a pair of earthquakes crippled much of the Central American nation. | |
| Immigrants will have until September 2019 to leave the country or find other means of lawful residency, according to multiple news reports. The Department of Homeland Security is expected to make an official announcement later this morning. | |
| The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) occasionally grants protected status to immigrants from countries where conditions "prevent the country's nationals from returning safely, or where the country is "unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately," according to the DHS. The designation must be renewed in six, 12, or 18-month periods. | |
| El Salvadorans were the largest group receiving protected status, followed by some 86,000 Hondurans, whose fate is still unclear. The Trump administration rescinded protections for approximately 45,000 Haitians and 2,500 Nicaraguans last year. | |
| Amanda Baran, a consultant to the Immigrant Legal Resource Centre, called Monday's decision "reckless and heartless". | |
| “To disregard the contributions that El Salvadorans have made in communities across this country by stamping an expiration date on their lives here is inhumane," she said in a statement. "...El Salvador is one of the world’s most dangerous countries and will be unable to absorb the return of these thousands of people whose lives are inextricably intertwined with those of ours here in the United States." | |
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