Men, women and children fleeing violence in Central America arrive at the U.S. border seeking safety and a new home. But policy changes from the Trump administration have closed off a path for immigrants seeking asylum from gang violence or domestic abuse. In "Asylum," Newsy travels to El Salvador to examine the root causes of the U.S. border crisis and to show the impact of President Trump's new "zero-tolerance" immigration policies.
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Almost three-quarters of credible fear screenings in 2016 were with someone from the Northern Triangle of Central America: Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
These countries have some of the highest homicide rates in the Americas, with rampant gang violence and violence against women.
These countries also have some of the highest rates of denials of asylum. More than 75 percent who made it to court ended up deported back to their home countries.
More than 39,000 people have been deported from the U.S. to El Salvador in the past two years.