Trump’s immigration policy isn’t just measured in American dollars or dignity, it’s costing people their lives.
into the fate of deported El Salvadoran migrants, forced to return to the country they fled, found that at least 138 El Salvadorans—and likely many, many more—were killed shortly after being deported.
Stricken with gang violence that has left the country of 6.5 million with one of the highest homicide rates in the world, El Salvador has undergone a mass exodus, with people fleeing to try to find safety elsewhere. “Of the estimated 1.2 million Salvadorans living in the United States who are not U.S. citizens, just under one-quarter are lawful permanent residents, with the remaining three-quarters lacking papers or holding a temporary or precarious legal status,” Human Rights Watch reports.
The problem isn’t going away, it’s growing. The number of U.S. asylum seekers from El Salvador grew by nearly 1,000 percent between 2012 and 2017. “The U.S. is not solely responsible—Salvadoran gangs who prey on deportees and Salvadoran authorities who harm deportees or who do little or nothing to protect them bear direct responsibility,” the Human Rights Watch report notes, “but in many cases the U.S.
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