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FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. Authorities are touting the arrests of thousands of gang members in the U.S. and Central America as a sign that teamwork and the Trump administration’s push to crackdown on MS-13. Justice Department officials will gather with attorneys general from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador during a Miami visit to share intelligence and strategies for future investigations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Officials praise large gang roundups in US, Central America

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Keep El Salvador’s TPS status

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Friday, Sept. 1, 2017 photo Massachusetts Institute of Technology janitor Francisco Rodriguez-Guardado talks about his detainment by the department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement while being held in the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston. Rodriguez-Guardado, a father of three, is facing deportation to El Salvador after being granted stays of removal for the past four years. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Detained university janitor, in US 11 years, awaits his fate

By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

El Salvador cardinal visits NY community racked by violence

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FILE - In this April 19, 2017 file photo, the casket of Justin Llivicura, 16, is carried from St. Joseph the Worker Church after Llivicura's funeral in East Patchogue, N.Y. Llivicura was one of four young men found slain in a suspected MS-13 gang killing in a park in Central Islip, N.Y., on April 12. President Donald Trump is scheduled travel to New York on Friday, July 28, to meet with law enforcement on Long Island and discuss the MS-13 street gang. His administration has made MS-13 a symbol of the need for stricter immigration laws. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman, File)

Trump speaks in New York town hit hard by gang violence

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking to law enforcement officials in Brentwood, N.Y., on July 28, 2017, about the street gang MS-13. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump snubs Jeff Sessions in MS-13 speech

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Attorney General Jeff Sessions boards his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, July 27, 2017. Sessions is traveling to El Salvador to meet with local leaders and discuss their efforts to fight gangs like MS-13. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jeff Sessions opens mission to El Salvador to deal with street gang MS-13

By Sadie Gurman - Associated Press

United States' Omar Gonzalez (3) celebrates with Jozy Altidore (27) after Gonzalez scored a goal during a CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal soccer match against El Salvador, in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

US survives bites, tops El Salvador 2-0 to advance

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Mexico midfielder Jesús Molina, left, fights for control of the ball with Jamaica midfielder Michael Binns during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Mexico, Jamaica play to scoreless draw in Group C play

By MICHAEL KELLY - Associated Press

Mexico's Elias Hernandez celebrates after scoring a goal against El Salvador during a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match in San Diego, Sunday, July 9, 2017. Mexico won the match 3-1. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Elias Hernandez leads Mexico to 3-1 win over El Salvador

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Legal limbo: Asylum seekers spend years in custody

By DANIEL WALMER and Lebanon Daily News - Associated Press

In this May 16, 2017 photo, Nancy Vasquez, a Salvadoran citizen with a short-term and renewable legal immigration status in the U.S. called Temporary Protected Status (TPS), cleans up her food truck at a construction site in Rockville, Md. Vasquez said she’s now thinking about how she would sell her property and move back home. She also wonders what she would do with her 11-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen by birth. (AP Photo/Luis Alonso Lugo)

End to ‘temporary’ status for U.S. migrants feared under Trump

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and BEN FOX - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2013 file photo, former El Salvadoran military Col. Inocente Orlando Montano departs federal court, in Boston. Defense attorneys say medical care for Montano accused of helping to plot five killings is declining since his transfer to a new facility to await a final decision on his extradition. A lawyer for Morales said in a filing Tuesday, May 23, 2017, that routine blood sugar checks were missed and he has had a fever and other symptoms indicating that he could have a new infection. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Attorneys: Salvadoran Colonel’s health declining in new jail

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2002 pool-file photo taken at the Modesto Centre Plaza in Modesto, Calif., photos of Chandra Levy are on display as musicians, right, stand by at the memorial service for Levy. Ingmar Guandique, a Salvadoran national, whose conviction in the slaying Levy was overturned has been deported. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said Guandique was flown Friday, May 5, 2017, to San Salvador and transferred to authorities there. (AP Photo/Debbie Noda, Pool, File)

We can deport the Chandra Levy suspect, but who else is in our ‘safe spaces’?

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

El Salvador struggles with options on returning gang members

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El Salvador judge summons ex-soldiers in El Mozote massacre

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Two known MS-13 gang members, formerly of El Salvador, Miguel Alvarez-Flores, left, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera appear in court Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Houston. The pair, who had a Satanic shrine in their Houston apartment, are suspects in the killing of one teenager and the kidnapping of another. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Police: 3 teen girls kidnapped by Salvadoran gang in Houston

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