Editorial: Forcing Salvadorans to return home after 20 years in the US is both cruel and bad policy
by The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jan 11, 2018
3 minutes
In a span of 30 days in 2001, El Salvador endured two devastating earthquakes, the first a magnitude 7.7 followed by a magnitude 6.6. Hillsides crumbled and swept away neighborhoods. Houses disintegrated. Roads buckled. In all, the two quakes killed 1,156 people and injured 8,122 more while destroying 150,000 houses and damaging another 185,000. It was a devastating $2.8 billion natural disaster. The George W. Bush administration responded with compassion, allowing more
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