DHS Claims TPS for 170,000 Salvadorans Will Remain Despite Looming Expiration

Temporary protected status for 170,000 Salvadorans is set to expire at midnight Wednesday, but the Department of Homeland Security said protections will remain in place until the Trump administration makes a decision to extend or terminate El Salvador’s designation, in place since 2001. “An announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time,” a DHS spokesperson said in an…
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US-Backed Repression in Latin America Paved the Way for ICE

Josué Aguilar Valle, a Honduran national, recalls the “terrible” conditions at the migrant jails where U.S. immigration authorities imprisoned him last year. In La Salle County, Texas, Aguilar shared a frigid cell with 50 men, sleeping on the concrete floor. “I thought I was going to experience hypothermia,” he explained. Aguilar’s wife struggled to locate him…
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Rubio Reportedly Gave Up MS-13 Informants in Deal With Bukele to Jail Deportees

The Trump administration promised to transfer key MS-13 leaders who were acting as informants on the gang in March as part of a deal for the U.S. to imprison hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, this spring, new reporting finds. According to The Washington Post, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Salvadoran president Nayib…
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