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Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-05): The US government’s hardening immigration policy is putting thousands of deported El Salvadorans at risk of death or abuse, according to the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW). From 2014 – 2018, the US and Mexico deported about 213,000 people back to El Salvador, a new HRW report says. The number of deportations increased more than 40 percent in 2019 compared to 2018. For many deportees readjusting to life in El Salvador is a struggle, particularly for those returning to a country with which they have had little if any connection since their birth. And it can be that lack of connection that puts them in harm’s way. Human Rights Watch identified more than 200 cases of violence aimed at deportees, 138 of those were killed.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-10): Those at risk are people like Santos Amaya, a Salvadoran police officer who had received death threats from gang members. He was deported from the United States in April 2018 and was shot dead, allegedly by gangs, that same month. People like a young Salvadoran woman who fled domestic violence and rape and was deported to El Salvador in July 2018. She now lives in fear, hiding from her abusers. [...] On Feb. 5, Human Rights Watch released a report that identified 138 cases of Salvadorans who had been killed since 2013 after being deported from the United States; more than 70 others were beaten, sexually assaulted, extorted or tortured. These numbers are shocking but certainly an undercount, because no government or entity tracks what happens to deportees. [...] These policies cover people who have worked, raised families, educated themselves and built their lives in the United States. This alone should be reason to value their relationship to the United States and regularize their legal status. But the killings and abuse that many Salvadorans will face if they are returned makes the need for Congress to enact legislation to protect recipients of these programs even more acute.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-06): Migrants from Central America trying to reach the United States react as police approach them near Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2020. At least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being deported back to country from the United States, according to a report released Feb. 5 from Human Rights Watch. (CNS/Reuters/Andres Martinez Casares) At least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being sent back to their violent Central American country from the United States, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. [...] "It is sending a lot of people back into harm's way," he said of deportations to El Salvador. "We still have a homicide rate of 32 for every 100,000. ... So people are still at risk."
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-05): At least 138 deported from US to El Salvador were killed: HRW [...] At least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent years were subsequently killed, Human Rights Watch said in a new report that comes as the Trump administration makes it harder for Central Americans to seek refuge in the country. A majority of the deaths documented by Human Rights Watch in the report, released on Wednesday, occurred less than a year after the deportees returned to El Salvador, and some within days. The organisation also confirmed at least 70 cases of sexual assault or other violence following their arrival in the country.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-07): A shocking new report says at least 200 Salvadoran asylum seekers were either killed, raped or tortured after being deported from the United States back to El Salvador. Human Rights Watch found that some 138 people deported to El Salvador were murdered by gang members, police, soldiers, death squads or ex-partners between 2013 and 2019. The report says most of the victims were killed within two years after being deported, by the same perpetrators the asylum seekers had fled from. From Denver, Colorado, we speak to Clara Long, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch. And joining us from El Salvador, we speak to "Arturo," a Salvadoran national who was deported back to El Salvador after living in the United States for 19 years. He asked for his real identity to be concealed for safety. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show looking at a shocking new report that says at least 200 Salvadoran asylum seekers were either killed, raped or tortured after being deported from the United States back to Salvador. Human Rights Watch found 138 people deported to El Salvador were murdered by gang members, police, soldiers, death squads or ex-partners between 2013 and ’19. The report says most of the victims were killed within two years after being deported, by the same perpetrators the asylum seekers had fled from. The Human Rights Watch report is titled "Deported to Danger: United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse."
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-04): At least 138 Salvadorans have been killed in the past seven years after being deported by U.S. authorities, a rights group said Wednesday in a report that highlighted the risk of returning migrants to the Central American nation. [...] The Salvadorans included in the report were deported for a variety of reasons, including losing asylum cases or committing crimes. Human Rights Watch did not break down the cases by reason for deportation. [...] Many of those killed after their return to El Salvador were targeted by gangs, which control huge swaths of the country.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-05): Some deportees are killed following their return to El Salvador. In researching this report, we identified or investigated 138 cases of Salvadorans killed since 2013 after deportation from the US. We found these cases by combing through press accounts and court files, and by interviewing surviving family members, community members, and officials. There is no official tally, however, and our research suggests that the number of those killed is likely greater. [...] According to press accounts, people deported to El Salvador have been killed in circumstances consistent with the methods of operation that death squads and extermination groups have employed: [...] Several people harmed after being deported to El Salvador had arrived in the United States as children and adolescents.[296] Several described attending school in the US and nearly all worked, but given their limited economic means and precarious legal status, many also found themselves living in US communities with higher levels of poverty.[297] In the areas where they resided in the US, poverty also coincided with higher levels of police abuse, gangs, and violence, placing them at higher risk of being victims of crime and of being accused of crimes themselves.[298]
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2021-01-06): At least 200 Salvadoran migrants and asylum seekers have been killed, raped or tortured after being deported back to El Salvador by the United States government which is turning a blind eye to widely known dangers, a new investigation reveals. Human Rights Watch has documented 138 deported Salvadorans murdered by gang members, police, soldiers, death squads and ex-partners between 2013 and 2019. The majority were killed within two years of deportation by the same perpetrators they had tried to escape by seeking safety in the US. [...] Alison Parker, managing director of HRW’s US programme and co-author of the report, said: "Salvadorans are facing murder, rape and other violence after deportation in shockingly high numbers, while the US government narrows Salvadorans’ access to asylum and turns a blind eye to the deadly results of its callous policies."
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-06): Salvadorans Are In Danger After Deportation From U.S., Report Says NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to social scientist Elizabeth Kennedy, co-author of a Human Rights Watch report on violence against deported Salvadorans. Data show they face murder, rape and other violence. What happens to Central American migrants when the United States sends them back? A new Human Rights Watch report says some are killed. The report documents 138 killings of Salvadorans who sought refuge in the United States and were returned to El Salvador instead.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-05): Human Rights Watch: More Than 200 Salvadorans Were Abused, Killed After Deportation [...] "Salvadorans are facing murder, rape, and other violence after deportation in shockingly high numbers, while the US government narrows Salvadorans' access to asylum and turns a blind eye to the deadly results of its callous policies," said Alison Parker managing director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch and coauthor of the report. [...] In all, researchers found 138 cases of repatriated Salvadorans killed since 2013. More than 70 others were beaten, sexually assaulted, extorted, tortured or went missing, according to the study. But, the reports says, the deaths "represent the tip of the iceberg—as ... people deported to El Salvador encounter a wide range of human rights abuses that fall short of death."
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-05): The 117-page report, "Deported to Danger: United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse," identifies cases of 138 Salvadorans who, since 2013, were killed after deportation from the United States, and more than 70 others who were beaten, sexually assaulted, extorted, or tortured. Perpetrators of these abuses include gangs, former intimate partners, and Salvadoran police or security personnel. [...] The deported killed or abused Salvadorans featured in the report include: [...] "People deported to El Salvador often face the same abusers and harm they originally fled, including by government officials," Parker said. "Salvadoran deportees from specific neighborhoods or those who lived in the United States for some time, face additional heightened and unique risks."
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2024-09-02): A Human Rights Watch investigation has found that more than 100 people were killed after deportation from the United States to El Salvador, affirming media and immigration watchdog claims that Central American deportees have met violent deaths. Using press reports, court documents, as well as interviews with victims’ families and authorities, researchers with Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented 138 people killed between 2013 and 2019 after being deported. Of these, 81 were killed within a year of their return to El Salvador, 15 others killed within two years, and the rest within five years, according to a 117-page report titled "Deported to Danger" published in February 2020. [...] Whether El Salvador’s deportees faced greater dangers when they were returned is hard to assess, Parker said, but it is possible.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2014-01-01): Those 4000 deportees, and we’ll move quickly now in our timeline, have now become 60,000 gang members. They are now present in all 14 states of El Salvador. After years of disregarding the problem, and hard line measures taken since 2003 to address it (when repression was thought to be the avenue to a solution, though each year only proved to show that repression increased gang violence in terms of homicides and gang numbers), these failed policies left El Salvador with the highest murder rate in the world by 2009. The rate was of 71 homicides per 100,000 people. [...] Of course, this primarily affects the young in the rural areas. The marginalized are dominated by the gangs. 50 to 60 percent of Salvadorans live in these areas. The people in these areas are facing a war. The young, those between 9 and 17 years old that aren’t involved in gangs, are caught in the crossfire. The police see them as gang members and treat them as such. There have been cases of extra-judicial executions of people that weren’t gang members. Then also, there are the pressures and threats from the gang itself to join. These young people live between two powerful and violent forces. They have no choice but to resign themselves to a hard life of uncertainty, closed off inside their homes, with miserable wages—or try to flee the country in search of a better life.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2024-09-12): For decades, life choices were bleak for many in El Salvador: Leave or die. Dubbed the "murder capital of the world," there was an average of a homicide an hour in early 2016, in this country of just 6 million people — two million fewer than call New York City home. Gang warfare drove an exodus of Salvadorans, mostly north to the US. But now, the security situation is so different that people are returning, even after building good new lives over decades in the US. [...] Villatoro’s words echo the brutal reality El Salvador has faced for years. He claims that gang members were required to kill at least one person as part of their initiation into groups like MS-13 or Barrio 18. [...] "In El Salvador, murders are down 70 percent. Why are they down? They’re down because they’re sending their murderers to the United States of America," Trump claimed, offering no evidence to support his statement.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-19): 2020. Salvadorans Are in Danger After Deportation From U.S., Report Says. Morning Edition 6 February <https://www.npr.org/2020/02/06/803292006/salvadorans-are-in-danger-after-deportation-from-u-s-report-says>. [...] INSKEEP: OK. So there’s a variety of things, a variety of ways that people ended up being deported. But I want to focus on that majority. You’re telling me there’s a majority of cases in which people went to an American judge or an American immigration officer and said, I fear going back, I could be killed – and they were told by the United States, no, we don’t believe you, you don’t have a credible fear – and they were sent back and killed? [...] KENNEDY: First is to believe asylum-seekers because what they tell us could happen, what they fear does happen if they’re returned and, you know, even before when they decided to flee. Another piece would be that we were able to document 138 who were killed, and we know that’s a minimum number. We found more cases.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2021-12-11): Over the past 35 years, I have returned to El Salvador many times, and traveled throughout the region, including in Honduras and Guatemala. I have learned that to make the best policy decisions and investments in U.S. aid, we need to confront and learn from our own history and mistakes. [...] I have seen how past and current U.S. immigration and deportation policies directly contributed to the establishment of violent gangs in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Beginning in the 1990s, we deported tens of thousands of gang members, many for minor infractions, back to the region, seeding the ground for today’s gang violence. [...] Poverty, injustice, violence, murder, corruption, inequality and impunity in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are homegrown. But history shows, with too few exceptions, that when local officials and activists have stood up for basic human rights and dignity, the U.S. too often failed to help them, sometimes standing by when they were threatened and harassed, and at worst, intervening on behalf of those who would bury dissent.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2018-04-02): Back in El Salvador, the gang was led by veterans hardened by decades of violence. On Long Island, the Sailors were led by a pair of teenage brothers who lived with their mom and kept the gang’s cache of machetes, swords and hatchets buried in their backyard. They navigated the neighborhood on dirt bikes and met up at McDonald’s and worked long hours at normal jobs. They created a hangout in a mulchy clearing in the woods, where they spray-painted tree trunks with stick-figure devils and laughing clown faces. One day, they hoisted an old mattress on a stump to make a lean-to and drew the outline of a naked woman on the fabric. Dues were $10 a week. In Facebook group chats, they talked about girls and Clash of Clans, their favorite multiplayer game. They also shared news of friends and enemies getting arrested in Long Island or murdered back in El Salvador. One wrote: "Did you see El Black, El Funny, El Flash and the others have fallen?" Another said: "I miss El Bad Boy." [...] Talking about his memories actually seems to ease Henry’s fears as he imagines what will happen next. If he is deported, anyone who takes him in would be putting themselves at risk. Back in El Salvador, he watched gang members stake out the homes of suspected traitors, then kill their brothers and cousins when they stepped outside. Even if he is granted asylum and returns to Brentwood, the gang will likely kill him unless he gets help relocating.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2014-01-01): More than a million El Salvadoran people were displaced during the war, many of whom fled to the United States and were given temporary protected status. Some of the immigrants, facing discrimination and poverty, joined gangs in the United States for protection and survival, and as result, some were convicted of crimes and sent to prison.68 In 1996, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act made it possible to deport immigrants who had served a one-year prison sentence, lowering the minimum for deportation from the previous five-year rule.69 The change in the law resulted in many Salvadoran immigrants being deported back to El Salvador; however, the Salvadoran government maintains that the United States did not inform it of the deportees’ criminal histories. Once in El Salvador, the gang members recruited others to their gangs, either through the threat of violence or promise of wealth. Violence skyrocketed in El Salvador after 1996, and today, much like the way it was during the civil war years, many Salvadorans live in fear and hope for a better life in America.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2015-10-05): In the '90s, as the gang phenomenon in Los Angeles got more complicated, the U.S. started deporting gang members. Deportations brought airplanes full of gang members who had committed crimes and murders in the U.S. back to El Salvador. [...] The deportation of gang members back to El Salvador coincided with a very complicated social environment in the country, in which family life had been broken, financially and culturally. [...] When these gang members arrived back to El Salvador, keep in mind the government had no re-integration policy. No psychological support. There's been a lack of serious policy toward these gang members' realities.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2020-02-05): More than 200 people the United States has sent back to El Salvador have been killed or seriously abused — including sexually assaulted and tortured — according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. [...] The report emphasized the high risk of harm for longtime U.S. residents who return to El Salvador, what Parker called its "most surprising" finding. Those deportees may stick out in El Salvador as easy marks for gangs that control much of the country's territory. [...] The organization also recommends implementing additional protections under international law to help people who may have been denied asylum and will likely face risk of serious harm or death upon their deportation to El Salvador.
Claim: claims a "huge percentage" of deported Salvadorans were murdered or harmed upon being deported back to El Salvador (Daily Beast, 2020-02-05)
Evidence (2021-02-01): Mica [00:05:14] Yes. So in this paper, basically what we did was to take advantage of the natural experiment that took place in El Salvador. So basically in the early 1990s, El Salvador did not have any powerful gangs. However, in 1996, the United States, they changed this immigration policy, making basically easier to deport individuals with some criminal records to their home country. And as a result, in 1997, many Salvadoran migrants who were members of gangs in the United States were deported back to El Salvador, where they reestablished those gangs immediately. Importantly, when they went back to El Salvador, they gained their freedom. And something very important is that by 1997, El Salvador was still recovering from the civil war in the 1980s that ended in 1992. For instance, in many places in El Salvador the police simply did not exist. And as a result, the gangs were able to quickly expand their influence and become powerful organizations that we see today.