Immigration officials have announced that a former El Salvadoran defense minister who has been tied to human rights abuses in the 1980s has been taken into U.S. immigration custody and is awaiting final deportation orders.
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador, killed in 1980 for his work for the poor in the war-stricken nation, will be beatified in May after decades of appealing to the Vatican.
Pope Francis had officially decreed that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, a man who was killed in 1980 because of his Catholic faith, is now a martyr.
Vice President Joe Biden announced Friday, a program set to launch in December that will grant refugee status to minors who live in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and whose parents legally reside in the United States.
In 2014 thus far, the number of murders in Puerto Rico has been reduced by 26 percent compared with numbers from within the same months last year, reports from the island's Superintendent revealed Thursday.
U.S. immigration attorneys say there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women and girls from Central America seeking asylum in the United States after having been kidnapped and raped, according to Fox News Latino.
Central American earthquake kills 1, damages 12 homes Monday night One person is dead and damage has been reported in El Salvador after a 7. 4 magnitude earthquake shook regions off the coast of the country and neighboring Nicaragua.
El Salvador's president spoke before the United Nations about decreasing poverty levels, quality of life and migration of children that's also affecting Central America.
With a declaration by Central American Criollos on Sept. 15, 1821, five countries announced their independence from Spain. The date would later signify the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S.
Democrats' immigration reform bill thats aims to curb the high number of unaccompanied child migrants from crossing into the U.S. is unlikely to pass before summer recess, while Republicans are seeking to pass their own immigration bill.
Leaders from three Central American nations met with President Obama late last week to discuss possible ways to curb the influx of unaccompanied child migrants from journeying to the United States, as well as how to manage those who already crossed the border.
Honduran President said that the issue is a humanitarian crisis and sprouted from the fight against drugs in the US, despite the fact that the US is the biggest consumer of drugs. And while the US only has to fight the public health and safety aspect, the backstage fight is the one affecting Central America and encouraging the migration.
After seeing an influx of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, the federal government has started placing a majority of the 57,000 with family or friends.
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said if the U.S. wants to solve the current border crisis it should give $2 billion in funding to Central American nations "to attack the root of the problem."
