[bigbonch]

Just say immigrant. No need to make sure people know you're talking about the white kind.

[filoleg]

What? Your comment doesn't make any sense.

We are talking about El Salvadorian expats earning money in the US and sending it back to their families in El Salvador. Is El Salvador majority white somehow now?

And second, race is entirely irrelevant here. A person earning money temporarily in a guest country with full intent to go back to their home country is an expat. If they, instead, intend on staying in that new country permanently, then that person is an immigrant. White or not makes exactly zero difference here.

[vaidhy]

I believe rr888 was making a point in the other way.. calling brown people like me expats :)

[bregma]

Immigrants stay in their new forever home. Expat workers have plans to return to their own home some day. They're not the same thing.

[amluto]

Also, even if they plan to stay forever, the people in question would be El Salvador’s emigrants, not immigrants.

[rr888]

If it wasn't clear I meant El Salvadorians working in the USA and sending money back.