Why were Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador? Illinois Anthropologist Dr. Ellen Moodie speaks with News Bureau life sciences editor Diana Yates about the decision.

On March 15, more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were accused of engagement in gang activity and deported from the U.S. — not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador, some 1,600 miles away from their home country. Ellen Moodie, an anthropology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an expert on Salvadoran politics, describes the decision to send the immigrants there. Read the article here.