Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S.

Without housing, formal employment, and a ration book, these internal migrants are "illegal" in their own country.

The United States’ long legal case against accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed remains in limbo after an appeals court scrapped a plea deal. The government had negotiated the ...