A crowd in the hundreds gathered at La Placita Olvera on Saturday to oppose the Trump administration’s recent decision to terminate a temporary residency program for 200,000 Salvadorans living in the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday it will give Salvadorans until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the country or find a way to obtain permanent residency. The decision has far-reaching implications for Los Angeles, which has the largest number of Salvadoran immigrants of any metropolitan area in the United States.
Some 35,000 Salvadorans who live in Los Angeles stand to lose their legal authorization to work and their protection from deportation if the humanitarian program known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is revoked.