"We are sending innocent people back to one of the most chaotic and dangerous places in the world."

These are our brothers and sisters, not freeloaders.

"Those that are in the caravan, 75 percent of them won't be accepted," he added. "That's been the number over the years."

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.