The Biden administration recently extended the “Temporary Protected Status” (i.e., “permanent”) for migrants from El Salvador. Starting in 2001 (State Department), Salvadorans have had an automatic right to stay in the U.S. because El Salvador is too dangerous for human habitation. Since the 2019 election of Nayib Bukele (age 42, so he won’t be qualified to serve as chief executive of a big nation for another four decades), however, it turns out that El Salvador has become safer than the U.S. overall and, certainly, far safer than the rough urban U.S. neighborhoods into which migrants tend to be dumped (e.g., a high-crime neighborhood in Maskachusetts: “Migrant overflow shelter in Roxbury is already reaching capacity”).
A Salvadoran could still stay in the U.S. forever by claiming that he/she/ze/they was threatened by a spouse, a golden retriever, or some other source of domestic violence (see “Biden administration reverses Trump-era asylum policies” (2021)), but why does he/she/ze/they get automatic legal residency simply because El Salvador overall is too dangerous?
(As it happens, the two guys who moved my mom’s stuff from independent living in Maryland to assisted living here in Abacoa (Jupiter, Florida) were immigrants from El Salvador. They both expressed huge enthusiasm for President Bukele (hated by the American Righteous) and said that, in their opinion, El Salvador was now safer than Washington, D.C. (Packing, moving, and unpacking cost 4,600 Bidies for some furniture and art that we would have had to pay to throw out in Maryland.))
If El Salvador is safer than the U.S., why do migrants from El Salvador have an automatic right to stay in the U.S.? Because they might vote for democrats!
but why does he/she/ze/they get automatic legal residency simply because El Salvador overall is too dangerous? Because they might vote for democrats!
The US government should give permanent visas to those who made El Salvador safer and welcome them to the USA, with all paid expanses, so they can help us to make the USA safer too.
“Bukele has campaigned on the success of his security strategy under which authorities suspended civil liberties to arrest more than 75,000 Salvadorans without charges. The detentions led to a sharp decline in nationwide murder rates and fundamentally altered a country of 6.3 million people that was once among the world’s most dangerous.”
What is remarkable to me is just 75k out of 6.5million citizens were, let’s assume, the reason for the murder rate. By removing them from society the murder rates plummeted. That is amazing.
It means that these 75,000 are now all qualify for refuge in United States on human rights ground. I am sure that ACLU already sends delegation there. Also Democrats , with voter registration papers and targets on those who are trying to escape from Democrat policies in the USA.
The human rights problems, banning of all abortions & discrimination against gays would do it for the ultra conservative, liberal voting amerikans.
I’ve never understood why we take men from places that are criminal nightmare-states. They are part of the problem. (Women and kids, maybe…)