What You May Not Realize About The End Of TPS Status For Salvadorans
It's not just immigrants from El Salvador who stand to lose. Here's why their families back home could be devastated.
by Nurith Aizenman
Jan 09, 2018
3 minutes
Many immigrants from El Salvador are in a state of shock. On Monday, the Trump Administration announced that it will soon be ending a humanitarian program that has allowed nearly 200,000 of them to live and work in the U.S. since 2001, after two earthquakes devastated their country. Now they worry for their future.
But the potential pain is likely to prove just as acute in El Salvador. That's because nearly all these Salvadoran immigrants work — and a huge share
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