What a great article on TPS! Also so important to highlight, as @RepMcGovern notes, that "T.P.S. was a response to America’s foreign policy in El Salvador and to its discrimination against Salvadoran refugees..."
We keep trying to run from the consequences of our decisions.
We keep trying to run from the consequences of our decisions.
https://twitter.com/valdesmarcela/status/1379784830276231168
Seriously, such a fantastic article. This passage quoting Maureen Sweeney is so important to understand WHY strong asylum protections were put into the law in 1996, laws that many now call "loopholes." Because the Reagan administration just flagrantly turned away asylum seekers. 
When discussing "what's happening at the border" I've started making brief historical detours to the Reagan Administration's flagrant attacks on Central American refugees, because that *recent history* has an enormous impact on the laws, policies, and trends of today.
As a side note, never read the comments on a New York Times immigration article, which are often just a more genteel Breitbart comments section.
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