*Democrats decry 'cruel' El Salvador migrants order *
Democratic lawmakers have slammed the White House's decision to withdraw El Salvador migrants' right to remain in the US after nearly three decades.
The Trump administration said on Monday the Central American migrants must leave or seek lawful residency, giving them an 18-month grace period.
Salvadoreans, who have had the legal right to live and work in the US under TPS since the quake, will now be forced to leave, or risk arrest and deportation.
Additionally, around 700,000 people who came to the US illegally as children - a group known in US immigration parlance as "Dreamers" - could also face deportation unless Congress acts by March to legitimise their status.
President Donald Trump met on Tuesday with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss a deal to allow these Dreamers to remain in the country in return for a bill to fund his proposed southern border wall.
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