Many Salvadoran workers in US may opt to go underground
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[QUOTE]About 200,000 Salvadorans face deportation next year under a decision by the Trump administration, creating a potential crisis in numerous industries including construction and other trades. But an increasing view is that many of them will simply go underground.
Quick take: In all, some 300,000 Salvadorans, Haitians and Hondurans either have already been ordered to go or could be. But given conditions back home, experts say, there is a strong chance that many of them will choose to take their chances in the U.S.
"I tend to believe that most Salvadorans will stay and go underground, slipping into undocumented status," José Miguel Cruz, a professor at Florida International University, tells Axios. "The reason: they don’t see going back to El Salvador as a choice, not only for economic reasons but also due to safety."
The background: The Salvadorans have been in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status since 2001, when George W. Bush permitted them in because of a deadly earthquake in El Salvador. Some 88% of them are now in the U.S. labor force, earning an average of $50k a year, [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-move-against-salvadorans-wont-make-them-leave--or-help-us-workers/2018/01/11/0fa6aac4-f637-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html?"]according to the Cato Institute[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
Don't really know if this goes in SH or politics.
I know I would if I faced deportation. The US government isn't really giving them a choice. If we kept their status then we'd be able to keep tabs on them and get taxes, but all criminalizing them is doing is making sure that we spend billions throwing honest workers in jail
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