This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, January 10th, 2018.

I'm Keelb Brown.

For hundreds of thousands of Salvadoran refugees who came to the United States following a massive earthquake

16 years ago, the future has just become much less secure.

The Trump administration plans to kick most of them out of the U.S.

Even though El Salvador now has one of the world's highest

murder rates.

Cato's Alex Narasta comments.

There was an earthquake in El Salvador, quite a devastating one, and as as a result the George W Bush

administration decided to stop the deportations of illegal El Salvadoran

immigrants in the US unless they were criminals or national security threats and

to instead grant them what's called temporary protective status which gives

them a work permit that has to be renewed every 18 months by the president but that does not

give them any access to welfare.

Okay and throughout the administration there was no there was no change they were allowed to renew their status or was it

just sort of an open-ended non-promise promise that they could stay?

Every 18 months the administration of George W Bush and Barack Obama renewed all of these

TPS statuses for the El Salvadorans.

Okay and now we have a new administration that is promised to get tough on people who are from other countries in the United States.

What does this event that he's not going to recertify them or agree to let them continue to stay?

What does it mean for them?

So it means there's about 250, 260,000 of them, the administration estimates that about 200,000 of that 250,

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