US To Require Salvadorans To Leave In 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirms that it is ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants, forcing nearly 200,000 to leave the country or face deportation.
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Salvadorans will have until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the United States or adjust their legal status.
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Monday that damage inflicted by a 2001 earthquake in the Central American country didn’t justify another temporary extension. She says