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El Salvador's Congress clears hurdle to speed constitutional reforms
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress ratified a constitutional reform Wednesday that will make it easier and faster to make constitutional changes in the future, a change critics say will allow President Nayib Bukele and his party to further consolidate power. ...
The Latest: Trump wants to send immigrants who are in the US illegally to Guantanamo Bay
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 immigrants who are living illegally in the United States. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be...
Immigration officers are operating with a new sense of mission. Now, 'nobody gets a free pass'
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A week into Donald Trump’s second presidency and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, federal officers are operating with a new sense of mission, knowing that “nobody gets a free pass anymore.” A dozen officers from Immigration and...
Salvadoran court sentences 3 youths to prison after they appeared in video making gang signs
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang signs inside a school. Seven other young people, who...
Rubio will visit Central America, including Panama, on first trip abroad as secretary of state
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make his first official trip abroad next week to Central America, including a stop in Panama, which President Donald Trump has riled with talk of trying to reclaim the Panama Canal. Rubio, a former Florida senator who is the son...
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious...
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes who lived in exile in Nicaragua dies at 65
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes who lived in exile in Nicaragua dies at 65.3 members of MS-13 street gang plead guilty in 9 killings in New York City suburbs
NEW YORK (AP) — Three high-ranking members of the MS-13 street gang have pleaded guilty to their roles in nine killings involving machetes and guns in the New York City suburbs, federal prosecutors said. Kevin Torres pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Central Islip to...
Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdown
MIAMI (AP) — About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration...
