EL SALVADOR'S GROWING MIDDLE CLASS: DEPORTEES FROM THE US
La classe moyenne salvadorienne explose du fait du renvoi de ressortissants par les États-Unis
Les Etats-Unis, tout comme le Canada d’ailleurs, mènent depuis des années une politique de rapatriement systématique de tout résident étranger ayant commis un délit sur leur sol. Comment s’organise le retour de ces personnes condamnées qui parfois ignorent tout de leur pays d’origine ? Vous le découvrirez dans ce reportage réalisé au Salvador.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The smell of slow-cooked Texas barbecue wafted over the outskirts of San Salvador as Jose Reyes cracked open another beer. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and Reyes had gathered with several dozen friends in a parking lot outside a stadium where the game would be screened. Dressed in baggy NFL and college jerseys, they traded jokes in English between bites of pulled pork and hamburgers.
2.Reyes was deported from the United States in 2001 after serving a prison sentence for wounding two people in a shooting in Houston when he was 17. His mother had brought him to the U.S. as a baby, and when he stepped off an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement facility in El Salvador, he had no recollection of the country of his birth.
3.Now he is 39 and thriving as a manager at an English-language call center that takes questions from AT&T customers in the United States. He and his friends, other U.S. deportees also working in call centers, earn well over El Salvador’s minimum wage.
IN AND OUT
4. Among the Central Americans caught in a decades-long cycle of migration and deportation, Reyes is one of the more fortunate ones.
5.The U.S. deported 2.5 million immigrants under then-President Barack Obama, more than any previous administration. Roughly 150,000 of those were returned to El Salvador at a time when surging violence