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Pope Francis, center, arrives for a canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. Pope Francis canonizes two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of saintliness for the faithful today. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

The Latest: New saint gives Salvadorans ‘happiest day’

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Araceli Ramos walks with her 5-year-old daughter, Alexa, in a park in San Miguel, El Salvador, on Aug. 18, 2018. An Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families, without notifying their parents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

AP Investigation: Deported parents can lose custody of kids

By GARANCE BURKE and MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

Araceli Ramos walks with her 5-year-old daughter, Alexa, in a park in San Miguel, El Salvador, on Aug. 18, 2018. An Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families, without notifying their parents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

U.S. foster parents sought custody after mom was deported

By Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, March 12, 2018, file photo, supporters of temporary protected status immigrants hold signs and cheer at a rally before a news conference announcing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the United States outside of a federal courthouse in San Francisco. A judge on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, blocked the Trump administration from ending protections that let immigrants from four countries live and work legally in the United States, saying the move would cause &quot;irreparable harm and great hardship.&quot; (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge blocks US from ending protections for some immigrants

By ROBERT JABLON and SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2011, file photo, a cache of seized weapons that were to be smuggled into Mexico is displayed in Phoenix. Among the thousands of immigrants who have been coming across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, many are seeking to escape gang and drug violence raging in their homelands. The weapon of choice used to intimidate them is often an American-made gun. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

As immigrants flow across US border, American guns go south

By LISA MARIE PANE - Associated Press

This May 25, 2018, file photo provided by Evelin Roxana Meyer shows her son, Eduardo Almendarez Meyer, right, alongside his father and her husband, Douglas Almendarez, in La Union, Honduras, a day before they left for the United States. Evelin was told in August that her son won't be leaving the U.S. until Nov. 27. Eduardo has been held at a government-contracted shelter in Brownsville, Texas, since he was separated from his father in early June. (Evelin Roxana Meyer via AP, File)

Sex abuse claims raise pressure to reunite migrant families

By JULIE WATSON and MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

In this Aug. 18, 2018 photo, a statue of a young migrant traveling to the U.S. is reflected in a shop mirror, on the central square in Intipuca, El Salvador. The hero statue is in the town's main plaza, Parque Los Emigrantes, or Immigrants Park, and carries a backpack. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Salvadoran town deeply rooted in DC unfazed by US politics

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

El Salvador's Foreign Minister Carlos Castaneda and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi celebrate a toast at a signing ceremony to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between El Salvador and China at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

El Salvador, Taiwan break ties as China isolates island foe

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Martha Santamaria poses for photos Friday, July 20, 2018, in Los Angeles. Santamaria made sure to follow the U.S. immigration rules. She obtained a green card through her husband, came to the country on an immigrant visa and became an American citizen. When her sister came on a travel visa fleeing violence and civil war in her native El Salvador, she helped her get a green card to stay in the U.S. That process took 16 years. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Central Americans seeking path to US have few legal options

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

A Barrio 18 gang members is taken in shackles inside the San Salvador Justice Center on Monday, July 2, 2018. The Barrio 18 gang along with the Mara Salvatrucha gang, have working-class neighborhoods divided up like a checkerboard. They extort money from those doing business in the neighborhoods. Those who refuse to pay are killed. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Thousands deported to Central America after fleeing gangs

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

File - In this March 12, 2018 file photo, supporters of temporary protected status immigrants hold signs and cheer at a rally before a news conference announcing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the United States, outside of a federal courthouse in San Francisco. A federal judge in San Francisco has refused to throw out a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to stop extending legal status to immigrants from four countries. Judge Edward Chen ruled on Monday, June 25, 2018, that courts have the authority to review the lawsuit over temporary protected status. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Lawsuit over temporary immigration status moves forward

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, June 19, 2018 photo, immigrants awaiting deportation hearings, line up outside the building that houses the immigration courts in Los Angeles. Inside the courtroom, immigrant children who arrived on the U.S. border seeking asylum or other relief attended a special hearing for juveniles on the status of their cases. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin)

Immigration courts packed with cases of kids crossing border

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

Central American migrants carry a flags of El Salvador and Honduras during a celebration of National Migrant Day at the Suchiate River on the border of Guatemala and Mexico on Sunday Sep. 3, 2006. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

El Salvador says Donald Trump violating human rights with zero-tolerance border policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this June 13, 2018 photo, an organizer, foreground, speaks to families as they wait to request political asylum in the United States, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. In Tijuana, Latin Americans fleeing drug violence in their countries are camped out and waiting to apply for U.S. asylum - undeterred by the new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week to bar victims of gang violence from qualifying. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Immigrants fleeing gangs prefer taking chance for US asylum

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

Man’s mental condition, past cited in capital resentencing

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies before Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Activists sue to keep 350,000 would-be illegal immigrants in U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FIFA bans coach for 2 years in World Cup match-fixing case

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In this April 11, 2018 photo, In this April 11, 2018 photo, Laurie Ellis checks the sizes and number of T-shirts left in a box at Jose Adam Gaurdado's resident in Irrigon, Ore. (E.J. Harris/The Oregonian via AP)

Dysfunctional body does not stop Irrigon businessman

By KATHY ANEY - Associated Press

US prosecutors in Las Vegas charge 4 alleged MS-13 members

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

El Salvador court commutes 2nd woman’s abortion sentence

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