More than 200,000 Salvadorans, the largest T.P.S. community, “would be far too many people for the country to absorb,” said Archbishop Wenski, pointing out that the virtual control of entire communities by drug and extortion gangs mean that El Salvador remains a perilous place for many.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing a case decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals involving a Salvadoran woman who received asylum due to fleeing domestic abuse in her country.

ICE officials in March announced that more than 500 pregnant women had been detained.

Plans to halt a Bush-era legal program have been suspended, at least for the moment.

DACA began in 2012 under executive order by then-President Barack Obama to give protection from deportation as well as a work permit and other documents to young adults who qualified. 

Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was killed Oct. 10, 2012, after being shot multiple times near a fence separating Arizona and Mexico.