The Board of Immigration Appeals has upheld the deportation order of a former El Salvador official implicated in the torture and death of thousands of people during the country's civil war.
The ruling against Former Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova is seen as precedent-setting as it's the first time the nation's highest immigration court has enforced a law passed in 2004 that allows the deportation of US residents if they had committed human rights atrocities prior to their arrival in this country.
Our U.S. Correspondent Mary McCarthy reports:
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