Immigrants deported from the United States arrive on an ICE deportation flight.
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The announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday was clear.
“Today, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced her determination that termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador was required pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act. To allow for an orderly transition, she has determined to delay the termination for 18 months. The designation will terminate on Sept. 9, 2019.”
This means, according to the New York Times, that almost 200,000 Salvadorans have a year and a half to get out of the U.S., or wangle resident status, before they’re deported. They have 192,000 American-born children who by definition are U.S. citizens. The Center for Migration Studies estimates that 88 per cent of the affected Salvadorans have jobs, and many have mortgages.
Their remittances to families in El Salvador are an important part of that country’s economy. About 17 per cent of El Salvador’s economy in 2016 was based on $4.6 billion in remittances.
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I see nothing to be proud of in this story. The Know Nothings are absolutely in charge and I am very discouraged. This bunch is determined to make life harder, meaner and smaller for all of us even for themselves though they are arrogantly unaware. It has to be hard to leave home and hearth to go to another place to make a new life. These are mostly the smart hard working people educated or not who are after a better life for them and theirs who on the whole increase the vitailty and prosperity of our country. After they have been here legal or not for some period of time and have been contributors to the commonweal LEAVE THEM ALONE!