The issue is frequently shown in the pages of the country’s main media and is the subject of analysis by experts, as is the case this Thursday in an article in the newspaper El Mundo that points out that there are more than 361,800 Salvadorans in the United States with expulsion orders.
Local migrants make up the fourth group with the highest number of deportation orders after Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, according to a survey by the Inter-American Dialogue (DIA), a U.S. think tank based in Washington, the newspaper said.
If such expulsion were to happen, it would have an immediate impact on remittances, more than 90 percent of which come from U.S. territory.
In the case of El Salvador, in 2024, close to 8.3 billion dollars were received, with a growth of 1.3 percent in the year, the lowest in the region.
This has been influenced by a decrease in immigration in recent years, although there is a significant percentage of Salvadorans who aspire to head north in the coming years.
Meanwhile, almost half of the Salvadoran migrants (45 percent) with deportation orders in the United States have never been detained during the last six years, according to the report, which puts this population at 1.6 million people.
El Mundo reflects that the overall migrant population at risk of deportation includes 70,000 people whose humanitarian permits expire in March 2025, 342,000 migrants who were denied asylum and 863,700 migrants who are beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
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