政府的这一延迟决定使大约20万名萨尔瓦达人陷入了法律上的悬而未决状态。
The delay from the administration has left roughly 200,000 Salvadorans in legal limbo.
据一名政府官员及另外三名接近政府的人士透露，美国国土安全部此前已批准一项通知，计划于本月结束针对约20万名萨尔瓦达人的临时法律保护，但白宫叫停了这一行动。
The Department of Homeland Security had greenlit a notice ending temporary legal protections for roughly 200,000 Salvadorans this month. The White House hit the brakes, according to an administration official and three other people close to the administration.
这一此前未被报道的反复过程凸显了政府试图在选举前五周应对的复杂局势：唐纳德·特朗普总统最忠实的部分支持者担心他态度软化，而许多独立选民和西班牙裔特朗普选民则坚持认为他做得太过分。
The back and forth, which has not been previously reported, underscores the crosscurrents the administration is attempting to navigate five weeks ahead of an election in which some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters fear he has gone soft, while many independents and Hispanic Trump voters insist he’s gone too far.
萨尔瓦多案例凸显了这些紧张关系，即在得克萨斯州参议院席位激烈争夺的背景下，商业利益与移民强硬派之间的对立，得克萨斯州拥有全美第二大萨尔瓦达人人口。
The case of El Salvador has highlighted those tensions pitting business interests against immigration hardliners amid the backdrop of a hotly contested Senate race in Texas, which has the second-largest Salvadoran population in the United States.
如果未获延期，该计划本应于三周前结束——目前政府一直推迟做出这一决定。据一名政府官员及另外三名接近政府的人士透露，国土安全部和美国公民及移民服务局已批准在《联邦公报》上发布终止通知，而白宫的突然叫停令国土安全部内部一些人员感到意外。
The program had been set to end three weeks ago if it wasn’t extended — so far the administration has punted that decision. DHS and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had cleared a termination notice to be published in the Federal, and the abrupt halt from the White House took some inside DHS by surprise, according to an administration official and three other people close to the administration.