El Salvador

This undated photo provided by Johanny Sanchez shows Sanchez, right, and her husband Franco Caraballo, who was sent over the weekend to El Salvador accused by the Trump administration of belonging to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. (Johanny Sanchez via AP)

Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights

Weekend flights by U.S. immigration authorities set off a frantic scramble among terrified families after hundreds of immigrants disappeared from the government’s online locator for detainees.
 
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

 
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks along the southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

A timeline of the legal wrangling and deportation flights after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act

 
Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, where the Tren de Aragua gang originated, in Tocorón, Venezuela, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

The Tren de Aragua gang started in a Venezuelan prison. Now US politics are focusing on it

 
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Judge questions Trump administration on whether it ignored order to turn around deportation flights

 

Venezuelans march in protest at US deportation flights taking citizens to El Salvador

Venezuelas rallied in the streets of downtown Caracas with a march protesting against U.S. deportations to an El Salvadorean prison. The rally which was filled with the usual attendees including government employees, officials and supporters, was headed by a group of several people claiming their relatives are in a prison in El Salvador. (AP Video by Juan Arraez and Andry Rincon)
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Venezuela condemns deportation of Venezuelans to El Salvador prison

White House defends the deportation of hundreds to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act

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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there

 
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped

 
President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump administration ramps up rhetoric targeting the courts amid mounting legal setbacks

 
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks along the southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Alien Enemies Act: President Trump has invoked a 1798 law for deportations

 
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque, El Salvador, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US prepares to deport about 300 alleged gang members to El Salvador

 
Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw he received from Argentina's President Javier Milei, right, as they arrive to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Musk waves a chainsaw and charms conservatives talking up Trump’s cost-cutting efforts

 
A shop's windows are riddled with bullets near City Hall after a gun battle between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces in Villa Union, Mexico, near the border with the U.S., Dec. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

A look at the 8 Latin American crime groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US

 
President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump administration labels 8 Latin American cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organizations’

 
Gene Hackman accepts his Oscar for best actor at the 44th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on April 10, 1972. (AP Photo, File)

Noteworthy and influential people who’ve died this year

 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a person, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Your immigration questions answered: What has changed under Trump, what hasn’t and what’s next

 
The Salvadoran Congress building is seen from the air in San Salvador, El Salvador, Feb. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

El Salvador’s Congress votes to eliminate public campaign financing

 
Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference regarding immigration enforcement at the Justice Department, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington, as Tammy Nobles, mother of Kayla Hamilton, listens. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Attorney General Pam Bondi rails against New York leaders as she announces immigration lawsuit

 
The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown

 

Former college adjunct professor gets 8 years in prison for sexually abusing women from El Salvador

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves goodbye as he boards a plane at Juan Santamaria International Airport near San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, en route to Guatemala. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

How Rubio’s trip abroad was overshadowed by foreign policy at home, from USAID to Trump’s Gaza plan

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo reach out to shake hands at the end of their joint news conference at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Guatemala gives Rubio a second deportation deal for migrants being sent home from the US

 
A US military plane which carried deported Indian immigrants is parked at the international airport in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)

More than 100 Indian migrants deported by the US arrive home

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal

 
A soldier carries out an anti-gang operation in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

US has frozen some funding for the UN-backed mission to quell gangs in Haiti, UN says

 
Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there

 
Members of a U.N.-backed El Salvadoran police force walk on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Soldiers from El Salvador join UN-backed mission in Haiti to combat gang violence

 
In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

First military flight lands in Guantanamo Bay with migrants deported from the US

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

 
Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards a plane at El Salvador International Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, en route to Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality

 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Trump administration in talks to send Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador prisons

 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador’s Congress clears hurdle to speed constitutional reforms

 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Salvadoran court sentences 3 youths to prison after they appeared in video making gang signs

 
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Rubio will visit Central America, including Panama, on first trip abroad as secretary of state

 
In this June 1, 2012 file photo, El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes stands in the National Assembly in San Salvador, El Salvador. 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. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65

 
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