Trump says things are good enough in El Salvador to send 260,000 migrants home. People there disagree
MEXICO CITY - Sixteen years ago, twin earthquakes rocked El Salvador a month apart, killing more than 1,200 people, displacing 1.3 million and damaging 1 in 5 homes.
The destruction was so vast that then-President George W. Bush decided to help some Salvadorans living in the United States by granting them temporary protected status, which shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work legally. El Salvador, U.S. officials said at the time, was unable "to handle adequately the return of its nationals."
On Monday, the Trump administration reversed that decision,
