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Woman seeking asylum in US has deportation hearing delayed

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FILE- In this Sept. 27, 2016 file photo, Abraham Chaparro, holds a photograph of his murdered stepson, Miguel Garcia-Moran, outside his home in Brentwood, N.Y. Garcia-Moran is among four teenagers from Brentwood High School that have been found dead this past month in a string of brutal killings that assistant Suffolk County Police Commissioner Justin Meyers says may be tied to gang violence. (AP Photo/Claudia Torrens, File)

Police arrest 35 suspected members of a Long Island gang

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Ohioan spreading hope through coffee business

By JOHN BUSH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1992 file photo, forensic anthropologist Claudia Bernard, from Argentina, brushes dirt from human remains, in El Mozote, El Salvador. A human rights advocate said Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 that Judge Jorge Guzman Urquilla has granted reopening a probe into the El Mozote massacre. A postwar truth commission concluded that the army massacred at least 500 people in El Mozote and surrounding villages in three days in December 1981. Victims’ rights advocates put the number closer to 1,000. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)

Judge orders reopening of El Salvador military massacre case

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Mara Salvatrucha, a violent gang known as MS-13, marks its territory with graffiti where it operates in the U.S. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Federal trial of MS-13 gang members begins in Northern Virginia

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

A city employee removes wooden crosses that were placed in a plaza by organizations protesting against government inaction over the alarming murder rate in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Sept. 1, 2015. (Associated Press)

El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala violence surges, threatening new refugee flood

By Guy Taylor and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An inmate belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang stands inside a prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, on March 26, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Loudoun, Va., school, buses vandalized with ‘MS-13’ gang tag after teen fatally shot

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this May 28, 2015 photo, members of the fast response police units, known as Halcones, detain a suspected gang member, who was found out of breath on a&#160;bed following&#160;a chase by police, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Observers blame the worsening insecurity on the breakdown of a 1.5-year-old truce between the gangs and the government. While the homicide rate plunged, critics say the truce gave the gangs time to strengthen, train and acquire heavier arms than they had in the past. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

U.S. citizens warned to stay alert in El Salvador amid violence

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to put Cuban criminals on charter flights to their home country, but Havana has refused to take them back. Because of "Zadvydas cases," the federal government cannot detain immigrants indefinitely. (Associated Press)

Immigrants with criminal records go free in U.S. because home countries refuse to accept them

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Alexis Marroquin (center, with white T-shirt) was granted a stay to remain in the U.S. while his uncle was sent back to El Salvador. Immigration advocate Ralph Isenberg (back right), who is not an attorney, is taking on the family's crusade to reunite. (Joe De la Fuente)

Immigration enforcement system dysfunction tears apart family

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A feared uptick in the number of illegal border-crossers coming into the U.S. from Mexico has so far failed to materialize, thanks largely to campaigns to refute the myth of "permisos" granting crossers a free pass to remain in the United States. (Associated Press)

Illegal immigrant children border crossings down 58 percent from 2014 surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Vice President Joseph R. Biden. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

EDITORIAL: U.S. aid to Central America does not get to the people

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 photo, a short story in Spanish is used in a class at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Refugee plan set up for Central American minors

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, an unidentified immigrant from Guatemala who declined to give her name, is interviewed, while her son paints on a whiteboard at the Artesia Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for undocumented immigrant mothers and children in Artesia, N.M. A surge of cases involving immigrants from Central America has backed up federal courts and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The cases have been moved to Denver by judges in Arlington, Virginia. Officials say it makes more sense to hold the proceedings in the same time zone as the detention center. Hearings are being held by video from Artesia, N.M. starting on Monday, Sept. 29. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)

Denver judges consider border immigration cases

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, a handful of Central American migrants cling to a northbound freight train after jumping aboard outside Arriaga, Mexico. A Mexican crackdown seems to be keeping women and children off the deadly train, known as &quot;The Beast,&quot; that has traditionally helped thousands of migrants head north. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico operations thwart child, family migrants

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Ernesto Vasquez stands with his father in a demonstration in support of humane treatment of immigrant children who are being temporarily housed at a naval base in Port Hueneme, Calif., on Tuesday, July 8, 2014. California lawmakers and religious leaders say they are pleased with the conditions of a temporary shelter for children caught crossing the border, but they're worried about the young immigrants' future. (AP Photo/Ventura County Star, Karen Quincy Loberg)

U.S. faithful: Show humanity for child migrants

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