This story is more troubling if you count the hundreds of millions of dollars we have spent in El Salvador since the end of the civil war to re-build their police force, develop a criminal justice system that works, and to eliminate the incredible level of crime and criminal gang activity in that tiny country. A follow up story should be on the ICITAP and AID programs that have been thrown at El Salvador. The police force remains a joke in that country and police officers still self-identify as either FMLN or ARENA over 20 years after the war ended. This country's national police and their justice system remain a "fail" for every metric used to measure success and we own its failures to a large degree based on how much we have spent there. The immigration issues are another issue that will affect the nation as over 200K Salvadorans wait in the U.S. to be deported back via the nearly daily ICE flights that take deportees back to that poor country.