US removes deportation protections from largely evangelical group of 200,000 Salvadorans.
The Trump administration’s latest change in immigration policy has shaken the believers and converts from El Salvador who fill Spanish-speaking evangelical churches in the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that it would end temporary protected status (TPS) for the roughly 200,000 Salvadorans allowed to live in the US without fear of deportation following a pair of earthquakes in their country in 2001.
After a decade-plus of working, worshiping, and growing families in the States, TPS recipients now have until next September to leave or obtain green card status; if they stay past the deadline, they will face the risks of living in the US illegally. Read More
Presidents Bush and Obama extended the temporary protected status of these refugees from El Salvadore due to the heavy drug trafficking, widespread violence, and very high murder rate in El Salvadore. The Trump administration has chosen to turn a blind eye to the worsening conditions in that Central American nation. It has also chosen to ignore the fact that all of the children born to these refugees in the United State are US citizens and it is sending US citizens into harm's way.
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