by Bob Walsh
I think it was Oscar Wilde who once remarked that after three days both house guests and fish tend to smell bad. Maybe it was Mark Twain. Doesn't matter. For sure 17 years is over the limit.
A shitload of people came here in the early 21st century, largely from El Salvador, on temporary protected status. They came in on emergency hardship visas due to devastating earthquakes in their homeland and were, at least in theory, expected to go back home once the local infrastructure would support them. Big surprise, that didn't happen.
This past Monday the Trump administration pulled the rug out from under them, withdraw their status, and gave them 18 months to go home, or at least get the hell out of the U.S. There are about 200,000 people who fall into this category, many of whom have had children here. Those children are U. S. citizens. Hatians and Nicaraguans got similar bad news delivered last year.
The Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielson, has determined that the conditions that resulted from the original earthquake in 2001 no longer exist and that current law does not permit people on this status to continue to stay.
About 100,000 of these refuges live in the San Francisco Bay area.
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