FILE PHOTO: Mourners honor the lives of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23 month-old daughter Valeria, who drowned crossing the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border, during a vigil in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - More than 130 Salvadorans have been killed after being deported from the United States since 2013, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, and it stressed the danger migrants face under the Trump administration's hardening immigration policy.
In a report titled "Deported to Danger," the group said it had documented 138 cases of Salvadorans who had been killed after deportation, but stressed the number was likely much higher as there are no official figures.
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