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200,000+ Salvadorans Face Deportation

In 2001, a series of earthquakes devastated El Salvador. 17 years later, the Trump Administration is ending the Temporary Protected Status that allows 200,000 Salvadorans to work and live legally in the United States. KDNK’s Raleigh Burleigh spoke with Jacob Blickenov, national organizer for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador to learn more. Salvadorans with TPS must re-register between now and March 19 to remain in the United States until September of 2019. Otherwise, deportations begin as early as September of this year.

Raleigh Burleigh was raised in the historic floodplanes of Satank. The Carbondale Rotary Club sponsored him as a youth ambassador to Chile the year before his graduation from Roaring Fork High School. He studied International Affairs and Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder then applied those studies traveling throughout South America the following year. Returning to Carbondale thereafter, Raleigh acquired an internship with KDNK News which led to the opportunity to serve as News Director from 2017 to 2019. After another trip to South America in early 2019, Raleigh Burleigh drew deeper into the confluence as Program Director at KDNK. Raleigh now serves on KDNK's board of directors and as editor of Carbondale's weekly newspaper, The Sopris Sun.