The following article by Ishaan Tharoor was posted on the Washington Post website January 9, 2018:
During his annual address to ambassadors at the Vatican on Monday, Pope Francis once more bemoaned the hostile climate in the West toward refugees and migrants. He decried politicians who demonize foreigners “for the sake of stirring up primal fears” and urged greater global action to help asylum seekers. “In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the history of salvation is essentially a history of migration,” said the pontiff.
That’s a message that clearly doesn’t register with President Trump, who has loudly staked his politics on rejecting immigrants and sealing borders. On the same day as the pope’s speech, the Trump administration announced that it would terminate provisional residency permits for about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the United States since 2001. Trump had already ended such arrangements for Nicaraguans and Haitians, and will likely follow suit later this year with Hondurans. The Salvadorans who have received what’s known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, now have until September 2019 to either obtain another form of legal status or leave the country. Continue reading “Trump heaps more misery on vulnerable immigrants”
