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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP- I would recommend you think twice about going to El Salvador. I have no opinions on the beaches or tourism, but it is a very unstable and dangerous country right now. The Peace Corps even suspended it's program there due to security issues. It is part of the Northern Triangle and a hub for narcotrafficking. MS-13, what is known there as La Mara, is a very powerful organized crime ring with heavy arms imported from the United States. It is true that most Salvadoran's are good people, hardworking, the food is great (I love pupusas!), and the country does have a lot to offer. It's simply not a good time to travel there. [/quote]

Really? Have you been there? Or is this all second hand info? What a gross exaggeration. [/quote]

I work with asylum seekers from El Salvador. Since you're too lazy to google, here are some links.

https://www.peacecorps.gov/news/library/peace-corps-el-salvador-program-suspended/
https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/dsgsm1519.doc.htm
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1043576/download[/quote]

Right. So your answer is no, you’ve never been there. Honestly, I don’t want to wade politics, but a very large number of Central American asylum seekers (Salvadorans included) are actually economic migrants who exaggerate their personal stories and the conditions in their home countries in order to satisfy the rigorous criteria for immigration benefits in the United States. So please keep that in mind when formulating your opinions regarding matters of which you are otherwise clueless. [/quote]

NP who also works with asylum seekers.  It's the murder capital of the world.  Give me a break.  [/quote]

Again, I don’t want to make this political (and I’m also the “pro-El Salvador poster”), but true asylum seekers would seek refuge in the first safe country they pass through (such as Mexico). El Salvador has violence of course (many places do), but it is grossly exaggerated by asylum seekers and the US attorneys and advocacy groups that represent them. [/quote]

Bruja de mierda. You are no pro Salvador poster if you saying those disgusting things about Salvadoran immigrants to the US. You literally make me ill [/quote]

What?! It’s just the truth, and it has nothing to do with Salvadorans, as many asylum seekers (from both Latin America and elsewhere) do exactly the same. Look, I wish every Salvadoran or Honduran or whoever who wished to live in the US could do so, and that they didn’t have to fake an asylum claim in order to do so. But that’s not how it works. Frivolous asylum claims clog up the system and harm legitimate refugees who are truly in need, from places like Afghanistan. Everyone knows that.

But this thread is a travel thread about El Salvador, which is a wonderful and safe nation to visit, not about immigration politics, which is a messy and convoluted affair. Stop being naive please. [/quote]

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