ICE deports 75-year-old man wanted for death-squad killings during El Salvadors civil war [Video]

A man who is wanted in El Salvador for murder and other crimes related to death squad killings in the country’s civil war has been deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Alvarado Benitez, 75, was deported by ICE officials in Philadelphia Friday and turned over to law enforcement authorities in El Salvador for his role in the killings, according to ICE.

Members of the death squad are accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering five civilians in the village of San Andrés in eastern El Salvador in April 1981. It is unclear what exact role Benitez played in the killings or how long he has been living in the U.S.

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The death squads were far-right paramilitary groups acting in opposition to Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, most notably the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMNL). The civil war in El Salvador began in October 1979 and …