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3 accused MS-13 members indicted in Vegas mutilation killing

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Illustration on Central American aid's relationship to illegal immigration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why does the Trump administration want to encourage even higher numbers of irregular migration?

By Mark L. Schneider

California Gov. Gavin Newsom listens to rehabilitation experiences made by non-governmental organizations made in favor of Salvadoran gang members, during a meeting at the Divina Providencia Hospital facility in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Governor says surfing can connect California and El Salvador

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom hear the stories of three migrants who fled El Salvador due to violence and poverty and tried to reach the United States with last year's migrant caravans, during his visit to La Chacra Immigration Center in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday, April 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

California governor hears of Salvadorans’ struggles in visit

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom greet Byron Daniel, 17, a young Salvadoran, who had fled El Salvador due to the harassment of gang members looking to recruit him, during their visit to La Chacra Immigration Center in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday, April 8, 2019. The Migrant Care Center processes deported migrants. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

The Latest: Salvadorans tell Gov. Newsom of fleeing to US

Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, second from right, walks out with San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondtof, far left, after they visited the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero at Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, April 7, 2019. Behind are, from left, Karla Belismelis de Muyshondt, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California state Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

California governor meets Salvadorans who tried to reach US

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, second from right, walks out with San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondtof, far left, after they visited the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero at Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, April 7, 2019. Behind are, from left, Karla Belismelis de Muyshondt, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California state Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Gavin Newsom says El Salvador trip counters Trump ‘toxic’ rhetoric

By Kathleen Ronayne - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, second from right, walks out with San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondtof, far left, after they visited the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero at Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, April 7, 2019. Behind are, from left, Karla Belismelis de Muyshondt, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California state Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

California governor says El Salvador trip a counter to Trump

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 3, 2019, Jesse Melgar, deputy director of media and public affairs for Gov. Gavin Newsom poses at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Melgar, who is serving as Newsom's spokesman on the upcoming trip to El Salvador, is the son of a Salvadorian immigrant who fled the country nearly 40 years ago to escape the violent civil war. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

El Salvador trip holds family connection for governor’s aide

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, April 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Mexico mirage

By CALVIN WOODWARD and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2018 file photo, a migrant woman helps carry a handmade U.S. flag up the riverbank at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, as a group of migrants tries to reach the U.S. Activists, officials and social workers in Central America were staggered by the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he will help reduce immigration, by cutting off nearly $500 million in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; exactly the opposite will happen, they say. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

US aid cuts will spur Central America migration, experts say

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Caravans of Central Americans and Cubans making their way through Mexico are worsening the crisis at the U.S. border, and people at ports of entry will feel the strain. (Associated Press)

U.S.-Mexico border ‘illegal immigration superhighway’

By Stephen Dinan and Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with American manufacturers in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Mick Mulvaney defends Trump Central America aid cuts

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Thursday, March 28, 2019. A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Caravan of 40 Salvadoran migrants sets out for US border

By MARCOS ALEMAN and AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom attend a roundtable discussion with Central American community leaders at the Clinica Monsenor Oscar Romero in Los Angeles Thursday, March 28, 2019. Newsom said Thursday he will travel to El Salvador in April to discuss the poverty and violence that's causing waves of migrants to seek asylum in the United States. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California governor to visit El Salvador to talk immigration

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom attend a roundtable discussion with Central American community leaders at the Clinica Monsenor Oscar Romero in Los Angeles Thursday, March 28, 2019. Newsom said Thursday he will travel to El Salvador in April to discuss the poverty and violence that's causing waves of migrants to seek asylum in the United States. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California governor to visit El Salvador to talk immigration

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

In this March 11, 1982 photo, from left, Jan Cornelius Kuiper, director, Koos Koster, producer, Johannes Willemsen, cameraman, and Hans ter Laan, soundman walk north of the capital, San Salvador, days before they were killed in El Salvador. Calls are mounting for Col. Mario Reyes Mena, a former Salvadoran army colonel, to be brought to justice for the killings. (AP Photo)

New push for justice after 4 Dutch journalists slain in 1982

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Catholic Church criticizes amnesty proposal in El Salvador

Associated Press

Salvadoran President-elect Nayib Bukele, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. Bukele, a youthful former mayor of the capital, easily won El Salvador's presidency, getting more votes than his three rivals combined to usher out the two parties that dominated politics for a quarter century in the crime-plagued Central America nation. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

AP Interview: Salvador president-elect wants better US ties

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Central American immigrants line up to register with Mexican Immigration officials at a shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle Pass, Texas. The governor of the northern state of Coahuila described the migrants as "asylum seekers," suggesting all had express intentions of surrendering to U.S. authorities. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Democrats embrace nation-building in Central America as answer to migrant caravans

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times