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FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. The Trump administration has quietly shut down the nation's asylum system for the first time in decades amid coronavirus concerns, largely because holding people in custody is considered too dangerous. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

US expels thousands to Mexico after largely halting asylum

By MARIA VERZA and BEN FOX - Associated Press

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez answers questions from the Associated Press, as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, that Hernandez met with an Honduran drug dealer in 2013 and agreed to facilitate the use of Honduran armed forces personnel as security for the dealer’s drug trafficking activities. In 2013, Hernandez was a congressman. He was elected president at the end of that year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US prosecutors tie Honduras president to drug trafficker

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

In this Feb. 7, 2020 photo, a Honduran delivery driver stands for a portrait in Guatemala City, where U.S authorities sent him to apply for Guatemalan asylum rather than allowing him to apply in the U.S. Fearing for his life, the 25-year-old had fled to the United States-Mexico border and requested asylum. After nine days in custody, he was put on a plane in McAllen, Texas, and sent to Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

‘Deportation with a layover:’ US sends migrants to Guatemala

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

With a line of Mexican National Guardsmen behind them, a couple of migrant children campout on the Mexican shore of the Suchiate river on the border with Guatemala, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. The migrants remained at the river's edge or stood in its muddy waters trying to decide what to do next, after being blocked from crossing en masse across the river. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras

By MARÍA VERZA and SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Honduras government fails to extend anti-corruption mission

By MARLON GONZALEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

A group of migrants walks trying to make it to the United States, near El Cinchado, Guatemala, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, on the border with Honduras. Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides from the city of San Pedro Sula and crossed the Guatemala border in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala sweeps up migrant group, returns them to border

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2018 file photo, migrants discuss their journey using a map posted inside the sports complex where thousands of migrants have been camped out for several days in Mexico City. The United States began sending Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers to Guatemala in November 2019 and in Jan. 2020 said it would expand it to Mexicans. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

AP Explains: US sending asylum seekers to Central America

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Anti-corruption mission in Honduras in precarious position

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Migrants ride on top of a truck moving along the highway, in hopes of reaching the distant United States, from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, early Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Hundreds of Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula, in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

100s of migrants advance to Guatemala from Honduras

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, photo people seeking asylum in the United States wait at the border crossing bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the border from San Diego. The number of people arrested or stopped entering the U.S. along the Mexico border fell for a seventh straight month in December, with Mexicans making up a larger than usual part of the mix, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

US border arrests drop as focus turns to Mexicans

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

US-Honduras finalize implementation steps on asylum deal

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ - Associated Press

Forgotten orphan inspires music executive to give back

By Cindy Watts and Tennessean - Associated Press

Honduras: at least 18 killed, 16 injured in prison riot

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AP Explains: A look at El Salvador’s new anti-graft body

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Donald Trump, Mexico squash border surge after Democrats balk

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 24, 2019 photo, girls eat lunch at a shelter for migrant teenage girls, in Lake Worth, Fla. The nonprofit U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants opened the federally funded Rinconcito del Sol shelter this summer, aiming to make it a model of excellence in a system of 170 detention centers, residential shelters and foster programs which held nearly 70,000 migrant kids in the past year. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

US held nearly 70,000 migrant kids in custody in 2019

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA AND GARANCE BURKE - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2019, photo, José Fernando Guillén Rodríguez, 21, left, practices building circuits with other students around a workbench in San Salvador, El Salvador. &quot;I don't think about migrating anymore,&quot; said Guillén Rodríguez, 21, who was apprehended in the U.S. at 18 and spent time in adult detention before being deported. Now he's completed a year of daily electrical classes and works as an apprentice at an electrical construction company. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA AND GARANCE BURKE - Associated Press

Demonstrators set up burning barricades to block a street during a protest demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, late Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. The protests come after Tony Hernandez, the brother of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, was convicted in a massive drug conspiracy, that prosecutors of the New York federal court say was protected by the Central American country's government. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

Hondurans call for president to step down after drug verdict

By FREDDY CUEVAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Juan Antonio &quot;Tony&quot; Hernandez, brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Tony Hernandez was convicted in a massive drug conspiracy case on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, in U.S. federal court in New York City. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Brother of Honduran president convicted of drug conspiracy

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jury selection in the drug trafficking trial of Tony Hernandez began Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in U.S. federal court in Manhattan. U.S. prosecutors allege the 41-year-old used his government connections to smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Closings in US drug trial of Honduran president’s brother

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press