Torres, 29, led the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside clique on Long Island, while Sosa-Guevara, 33, commanded the Hollywood Locos Salvatruchas. Lopez-Morales, 36, served as a high-ranking member. The murders occurred in secluded parks and wooded areas, with bodies concealed in shallow graves that remained undiscovered for months or years.

Three local leaders of the MS-13 street gang have pleaded guilty to their roles in nine killings involving machetes and guns in the New York City suburbs. Federal prosecutors say Kevin Torres pleaded guilty Friday to racketeering charges for his role in the killings that happened from 2016 to 2017.

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday.

Jairo Saenz, a MS-13 gang leader known as "Funny" has pleaded guilty to seven murders on Long Island, including the brutal killings of Brentwood High School students Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas.

A high-ranking member of an MS-13 clique in New York pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering and other federal charges in a case involving seven slayings, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls that focused the nation’s attention on the violent Central American street gang.

Three more high-ranking MS-13 gang members pleaded guilty to their roles in killings involving machetes and guns on Long Island, prosecutors say.

“I did these things and I knew they were wrong,” he said in Spanish through a translator after his lawyer read his accounting of the killings in suburban Long Island, just east of New York Cit

In order to deport non-Salvadoran migrants and make it unlawful for them to apply for asylum in the United States, the Trump administration is negotiating a "Safe Third Country" deal with El Salvador.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation to a similar order announced hours earlier by President Donald Trump.

The wooden house on the hill is haunted, and those who once endured its wrath are now the ones holding the doors wide open.

State officials issued a nine-page guidance last week on how schools can protect the rights of immigrant students, documented and undocumented, just days

Even though some states say they are tough on crime, they are actually just more oppressive and regressive, with higher crime rates.