The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that 262,000 Salvadorans who have been living in the US, some for over a decade, will lose their temporary legal status. The impacted individuals have until September 9 to apply for alternative legal means to remain in the country, or to arrange travel back to El Salvador. The administration argued that, since President George W. Bush allowed for Salvadorans to flee to the US in the wake of devastating 2001 earthquakes, the situation in El Salvador has markedly improved. (Congress first granted "temporary status" to migrants fleeing wars and natural disasters in 1990.) Immigrant rights groups argue that the move will break up families, and subject people to "violence and persecution" in their native country. The Trump administration has also announced plans to end temporary protections for Nicaraguans and Haitians. – LAT