evidence: The report, "Deported to Danger: United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse," notes that at least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being deported from the United States since 2013, and more than 70 have been "beaten, sexually assaulted, extorted or tortured," according to HRW’s summary of the report. Perpetrators of the abuse, according to the summary, "include gangs, former intimate partners and Salvadoran police or security personnel." In many of these more than 200 cases, we found a clear link between the killing or harm to the deportee upon return and the reasons they had fled El Salvador in the first place. In other cases, we lacked sufficient evidence to establish such a link. Even the latter cases, however, show the risks to which Salvadorans can be exposed upon return and the importance of U.S. authorities giving them a meaningful opportunity to explain why they need protection before they are deported […] [...] "U.S. authorities have knowingly put Salvadorans in harm’s way by sending them to face murder and attacks on their safety," Parker writes in the report’s summary. "Salvadorans are facing murder, rape and other violence after deportation in shockingly high numbers, while the US government narrows Salvadorans’ access to asylum and turns a blind eye to the deadly results of its callous policies."