After 19 years, the US has become home. But for how much longer?
445 views · Published 27 August 2018 · 3:03 · Indexed 30 September 2026
Channel: The Boston Globe · 2018 · News & Politics
For 19 years, administration after administration had extended Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 was compounded by crippling poverty, destabilizing corruption, and violence so pervasive that the murder rate in Honduras is now among the highest in the world. For 19 years, Republicans and Democrats had given Patricia Carbajal and thousands like her permission to stay in this country, to work, to put down roots. After 19 years, Patricia’s status long ago stopped feeling temporary. But, now, with a word from Washington, everything changed. Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/globe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/+bostonglobe
