Trumps dangerous threat to the third-largest Hispanic group in America
By Charles Lane Opinion writer January 17 at 7:02 PM
For decades, thousands of people left El Salvador and crossed the border, taking up residence in a new country and gradually putting down roots.
The Salvadorans occupied areas that natives ignored or disdained, and they worked incredibly hard. Over time, however, unease over their presence grew, until the host government gave them a deadline by which to establish lawful residency or face deportation.
This is not a news update from the United States, where the Trump administration has told some 200,000 Salvadorans that the “temporary” haven they were granted in 2001, after an earthquake devastated their country, will expire in 18 months.
Rather, it is a summary of events in Honduras nearly 50 years ago, when that country’s authorities informed tens of thousands of Salvadoran squatters that they would have to leave the land they had been farming so it could be distributed to Hondurans.
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