The United States "is basically what we call home," Jose Alexander Trejo Lopez, 20, said on Thursday from El Salvador. He and his brother Josue, now 19, came to the U.S. at ages 11 and 10.

U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday defeated a Democratic resolution calling for a review of human rights in El Salvador, focusing on conditions at a maximum-security prison holding people deported from the United States.

The measure would have compelled the administration to inform Congress about how it is complying with court orders involving deportees to El Salvador and to provide a human rights report on the nation.