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'It's Our Duty' To Welcome Salvadorans In The U.S. Back Home, Ambassador Says
ResumeClaudia Ivette Canjura, El Salvador's ambassador to the United States, is responding to the Trump administration's decision this week to end a program that protected 200,000 Salvadorans in the U.S. from deportation after devastating earthquakes in 2001.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Canjura about the end of temporary protected status, and thousands of Salvadorans possibly returning to a country struggling with unemployment, poverty and gang violence.
This segment aired on January 11, 2018.