A new report from United Nations says more than 191,000 people have been killed in the first 3 years of Syria's civil war.Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN Human Rights Commissioner, saysthat's more than double the size of the UN's estimate this time last year.But it may still be not accurate.As report explains, unfortunately,it's probably underestimate of the real total number of people killed during the first 3 years of this murderous conflict.Colville says the attention given the bloodshed in Syria is dwindling.A coalition of immigrant rights group is suing the federal government.NPR's John Fernet reportsthis suit accuses the government of using an unconstitutional process that ignores asylum claims of migrants who fled violence in Central America.The lawsuit claims 11 women and children being held in a federal detention center in remote Artina, New Mexico,are being denied access to lawyers, and are not allowed to make their casesas to why they fled El Salvador and Honduras, and what awaits them if they return.Hundreds have been deported from the New Mexico facilities since June.Lee Gelernt is deputy director of the ACLU's National Immigration Rights Project.We have filed the suit because the government has set up a deportation now at our teaser.It has stated from the beginning it does not want these women and children to have asylumand has said that even without examining the individual merits to these claims.Under pressure from congress, the Obama administration says it is speeding up deportations of recently arrived Central Americans.John Fernet, NPR News, Austin.
