Op-Ed: Salvadorans forced to return home will face one of the most dangerous places on the planet

In this Op-Ed, UBC Visiting Fellow Robert Muggah along with Isabel de Sola argue that the Trump administration’s decision to end temporary protected status for about 200,000 Salvadorans puts their lives at risk. “El Salvador is a dynamic and beautiful country. But its cities and towns are among the most dangerous on the planet” and “organized violence touches the lives of most Salvadorans.”

Read the full Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times.

Police investigators carry a body to a forensic vehicle, after a shootout between private security guards
and gang members, at the central market in San Salvador, El Salvador on March 15, 2017.
(Salvador Melendez / Associated Press)