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DHS Refutes Neglect Claims Of Detained Guatemalan National With Homicide Warrant
The Free Press - Tampa - Florida
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June 26, 2025
Guatemalan National with Homicide Warrant Received Extensive Medical Attention, DHS Confirms The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released a detailed rebuttal to claims made by Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a Guatemalan national who...
I Teach Immigrant Kids In An LA High School. Here's The Truth About What's Happening Here.
Buzzfeed
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June 27, 2025
Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem calls us a “city of criminals,” and many Americans are cheering on the Trump administration and vilifying immigrants. What we see in LAUSD is an often heroic generation of immigrant parents working...
FACT CHECK: ICE Provided Full Medical Care to Guatemalan Illegal Alien with History of Child Abuse and Wanted for Homicide
Arizona Free Press
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This detainee received prenatal care, including an ultrasound and OB-GYN visit, dental care, and medication WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) set the record straight about Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a Guatemalan criminal...
2 undocumented immigrants escape Zapata stash house after being held for ransom
KGNS - Texas
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June 26, 2025
ZAPATA, Tex. (KGNS) - Two undocumented immigrants escaped from a stash house in Zapata after being held against their will. On Wednesday, June 18, the Zapata County Sheriff’s Office helped rescue two undocumented immigrants from Guatemala who were...
Canadian youth struggle as unsupported caregivers
Diplomatic Courier
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nder the Radar is a weekly special series bringing you compelling, under–the–radar stories from around the world, one region at a time. This week in the Americas, over one million Canadian youths are caregivers for family members, but Canada’s...
How the Republican megabill targets immigrant finances
CNBC
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June 26, 2025
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to reporters at Capitol Hill on June 24, 2025 in Washington. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images News | Getty Images A Republican megabill that lawmakers are trying to pass by the Fourth of July would...
ICE hardens: Masked agents intimidate reporters while seizing more immigrants at Lower
AM New York Metro
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June 26, 2025
ICE ramped up their immigration enforcement in Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, both in terms of physicality and what many are calling a blatant disregard for the law. Photo by Dean Moses ICE hardened its immigration enforcement in Lower...
ICE hardens: Masked agents intimidate reporters while seizing more immigrants at Lower Manhattan court
AM New York Metro
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June 26, 2025
ICE ramped up their immigration enforcement in Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, both in terms of physicality and what many are calling a blatant disregard for the law. Photo by Dean Moses ICE hardened its immigration enforcement in Lower...
Judge: Abrego Garcia to be released, but may be taken into immigration custody
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal - California
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June 26, 2025
By Katabella Roberts Contributing Writer A judge said on Wednesday that she would order the pretrial release without bail of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national deported to his home country earlier this year, but that he would likely be...
L.A. immigration raids force the undocumented to trade their freedom for safety
Los Angeles Times
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June 26, 2025
WASHINGTON — An undocumented man from Guatemala who has leukemia postponed chemotherapy because he was afraid to go to the hospital. A Mexican grandmother packed most of her belongings into boxes, in case she is deported. A Pentecostal church in...
Why Latin Music Needs Louder Pro-Immigrant Voices & Defenders (Guest Column)
Billboard
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June 26, 2025
There was an immigration raid last night at a small Latina-owned garment factory just off Times Square in mid-Manhattan. The workers hid in the dark listening to la migra (or ICE) take away the people next door — it was terrifying. I can’t tell...
Fear leads immigrants to self-deport
China Daily Global
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Shoes and clothing on the razor wire barriers are seen at the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, the United States, Feb 2, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] On Monday, Sae Joon Park, a 55-year-old Purple Heart veteran who has lived in the United States for...
Is Trump’s Immigration Policy Undermining U.S. Tourism?
News Americas Now
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June 26, 2025
By Felicia J. Persaud News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. June 26, 2025: I recently returned from Barbados, landing at Miami International Airport during what should have been a peak evening hour. But something was missing: people. The usually...
Taken: What happens after an LA immigration raid
Pleasanton Weekly - California
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June 26, 2025
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans or trucks. They wear blue jeans or battle fatigues. They approach Latino men, at times yelling and...
US signs agreements with Guatemala and Honduras to take asylum seekers
The Independent
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June 26, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
LA immigration detention facilities a ‘ticking time bomb,’ immigration lawyer says
AOL
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Los Angeles — Outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, a 26-year-old man stood waiting, hoping to deliver blood pressure medicine to his father, who was detained last Thursday by federal immigration officials. The...
Latin Industry Leads Speak About Needing to ‘Educate’ Market on Their Stories: ‘We Are Winning, But It’s Through Little Steps’
Variety
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June 26, 2025
Gathered at the Costa Rica Media Market, Latin American industry leaders took the temperature of the independent film scene in the region, zooming into how to successfully enter major markets such as the U.S. and Europe, as well as how to foment...
Man posing as ICE agent in Houston robbed victim of $1,800, Guatemalan ID, officials say
KHOU - Texas
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June 26, 2025
The victim told authorities that Guliano Christopher Thomson, 37, flashed a badge and presented himself as an ICE agent before robbing him of nearly $2,000. HOUSTON — A 37-year-old man is facing multiple felony charges after authorities said he...
The women surfing 50-foot waves: ‘I’ve almost died so many times’
KTVZ - Oregon
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June 26, 2025
(CNN) — Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From the moment you let go of that rope and...
L.A. immigration detention facilities a "ticking time bomb," immigration lawyer says
CBS News
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Los Angeles — Outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, a 26-year-old man stood waiting, hoping to deliver blood pressure medicine to his father, who was detained last Thursday by federal immigration officials. The...