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US Expected to End Protection of Salvadorans from Deportation Threat

by VOA News

   The U.S. is expected to announce Monday that it is ending a 17-year
   "temporary" residency status for 200,000 Salvadorans, leaving them
   vulnerable to deportation in 18 months if they cannot secure legal
   residency in the U.S.

   The Salvadorans have lived in the U.S. since 2001, when two devastating
   earthquakes disrupted life in El Salvador. They were granted Temporary
   Protected Status (TPS) to live in the U.S., a provision that until now
   had been routinely renewed with little debate in Washington.

   But the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a
   harder line on immigration controls and in the last year had already
   ended the protected status for 59,000 Haitians and 5,300 Nicaraguans
   under the same program affecting the Salvadorans.

   The New York-based Center for Migration Studies said the Salvadorans
   represent more than 135,000 households, with 88 percent of them in the
   U.S. workforce.

   About a quarter of them live in the west coast state of California and
   another fifth in the Washington area. Many of the Salvadorans have had
   children born in the U.S., automatically making the children U.S.
   citizens, but not their parents.