United States Plans To Deport More Than 200,000 Salvadorans

An earthquake which killed thousands in El Salvador in 2001 also started a new life for more than 200,000 immigrants in the United States. All of that could come to an end with the Trump administration’s decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) which gave provisional residency to Salvadoran immigrants.

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake was the most powerful to hit El Salvador in more than a decade. It was followed by two more high intensity earthquakes which destroyed neighbourhoods, homes and office buildings.

John Ashcroft who was the U.S. Attorney General back then, proposed the TPS as a means of providing Salvadorans who had been in the United States since 2001 protection from deportation as well as work permits.

Despite reports from different administrations that confirmed conditions in El Salvador had not improved enough to accommodate the return of TPS- covered immigrants, the U.S. decided to terminate the protection effective 9 September 2019.

Activists and immigration experts believe the decision could also affect nearly 200,000 children of Salvadoran parents who were born in the U.S. and have citizenship.

Those who support the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS point to the fact that the accommodation was only temporary and offered only an 18-month designation.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, an estimated 465,000 Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. are undocumented. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that over the last five years alone, more than 58,000 unaccompanied minors from El Salvador were apprehended at the border

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