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Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protected Status For Salvadoran Immigrants

NPR
Published January 8, 2018 at 1:06 PM EST
From left, President Trump, accompanied by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, speaks to members of the media after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
From left, President Trump, accompanied by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, speaks to members of the media after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

The Trump administration will end temporary protected status for Salvadorans who’ve been allowed to live and work in the United States since 2001. The White House has already ended temporary protected status for Haitians and Nicaraguans.

Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti discusses the latest with USA Today reporter Alan Gomez (@alangomez).

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