Violence Against Women by Central American Street Gangs: How Trump’s Immigration Policy Has Made It Worse for Salvadoran & Honduran Women
June 4, 2018
January of this year, President Trump enacted a new policy that ended the Temporary Protected Status for 200,000 Salvadorans and 88,000 Hondurans that had been living in the United States for almost twenty years. Both countries originally received TPS following natural disasters at the start of the twenty-first century. Honduras was hit by a devastating hurricane in 1999 and El Salvador suffered from several major earthquakes in 2001.
