The Obama administration has acknowledged agents detained 121 people, including children, in raids over the New Year’s weekend as part of an operation to deport families fleeing violence in Central America. The raids took place mainly in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. The number of mothers with children and unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S. border reportedly rose late last year amid a spike in violence in El Salvador and Honduras. New data shows killings in El Salvador increased by nearly 70 percent last year, meaning El Salvador could overtake Honduras as the world’s most violent country not currently at war.