Last weekend, at least 121 migrants who lost their asylum cases were arrested and marked for deportation—effectively sending some to their deaths.

Since January 2014, as many as 83 undocumented immigrants, having fled violence in their homes countries (only to be deported by the United States), have been murdered upon their return to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. A Guardian investigation identified three separate Honduran men killed in their hometowns.

Congressional Republicans have a new plan to address unaccompanied minors crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. It deploys U.S. troops to the border and mandates "aggressive information campaigns" in Central American nations, as well as US-run "repatriation centers" on their soil.

The U.S. government is increasings its efforts to help Central American farmers fight a harmful coffee fungus called "coffee rust,"which has caused more than $1 billion in damage across the Latin American region. As many as 500,000 people could lose their jobs due to the fungus and, much less importantly, your morning…