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Indictment Unsealed After Accused Drug Trafficker Killed in Guatemala–Mexico Border Shootout
The Epoch Times
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June 19, 2025
A man killed by Mexican authorities was identified as one of 13 Guatemalan nationals believed to be part of a cocaine trafficking organization based along the Guatemala–Mexico border, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of...
‘Love Island USA’ crowns Amaya and Mass. native Bryan as winning couple of show’s tumultuous 7th season
Boston.com - Massachusetts
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July 14, 2025
TV This image released by Peacock shows Amaya Espinal, left, and Bryan Arenales from the reality series "Love Island USA." Ben Symons/Peacock By ITZEL LUNA, Associated Press July 14, 2025 4 minutes to read Share Close Send this article to your...
The church that put the sanctuary in a movement | Opinion
The Florida Times-Union
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I’ve been thinking about my Mom and her church lately. Not the Baptist church in Illinois where Mom grew up along with a boy who eventually became her husband. Or the church in Wisconsin where Dad was the minister and I grew up as a preacher’s...
El Salvador Extradites Lev Tahor Members to Israel, Guatemala Over Child Abuse Charges
Tico Times
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June 20, 2025
El Salvador has extradited two members of the Lev Tahor sect—an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group under investigation for alleged child sexual abuse—to Israel and Guatemala, authorities from both countries reported Thursday. Lev Tahor, which practices...
'No one feels safe’: Changes to immigration policy bring fear, uncertainty to New York farms
Spectrum News NY1 - New York
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June 20, 2025
Quirino, a Guatemalan immigrant, spent more than a decade working long days caring for hundreds of cows on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Now, he worries about the day that ends amid a rollercoaster of immigration policy changes. “During the...
Kristi Noem Showcases 'Worst of the Worst' Illegals Arrested: 12 Different Sex Offenses Against Children
Breitbart
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June 20, 2025
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem highlighted some of the illegal immigrants detained by immigration enforcement over the past several days, showcasing their crimes which include “12 different sex offenses against children.” In...
Miguel Ángel Asturias: Guatemala’s Mythical Chronicler Who Spoke to the World
teleSUR
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June 20, 2025 Hour: 1:56 pm Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (1899–1974) stands as one of the most influential writers in Latin America. Born in Guatemala City, this lawyer, journalist, poet, and diplomat marked a turning point in Hispanic literature...
‘Gulf of America’ Homeland Security Task Force arrests 18 illegal immigrants in two days
1819 News
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The FBI Mobile recently announced the arrests of 18 suspects in two days involving the Gulf of America Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF). The illegal immigration operations took place in Baldwin County on Wednesday and in Mobile County on...
From America to Guatemala: How Mil Milagros shows that women can uplift other women
The Somerville Times - Massachusetts
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June 19, 2025
Somerville-based non-profit Mil Milagros has been helping Guatemalan women to become leaders in their communities. — Photos courtesy of Mil Milagros By Alaa Al Ramahi In Guatemala, the average number of years that an Indigenous woman has an...
El Salvador extradites Jewish sect members to Guatemala, Israel
Al-Monitor
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June 20, 2025
El Salvador has extradited two members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect under investigation for alleged child abuse sex to Guatemala and Israel, authorities announced Thursday. Lev Tahor, which practices a form of Judaism in which women wear black...
Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts
Mongabay
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July 17, 2025
Plastic waste is an exploding global problem, with minimal recycling resulting in incineration as a common disposal practice. Shipments of plastic products and plastic waste from the Global North to the Global South are contributing to a flood of...
Protesta por redada de ICE en negocio de lavado de autos en Southington reúne a casi 100 activistas
Connecticut Public Radio
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June 20, 2025
Read in English Juan Fonseca Tapia, gestor de The Trust Act Coalition (“Coalición de la Ley TRUST”), estuvo en Hartford el lunes para protestar en solidaridad con los manifestantes de Los Ángeles contra las redadas de inmigración. Se dirigía a su...
As Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement in Maryland, the scammers ramp up too
WYPR - Maryland
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June 20, 2025
Matthew Peters has seen a lot in the twelve years he’s provided services at the Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center in Easton. But on May 13th, just after reading a newsletter about immigration scams, he saw one himself. A young couple,...
Yoder-Short: The trouble with Alligator Alcatraz | Column
Iowa City Press Citizen
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We like to think of ourselves as a good nation, but our priority of looking out for only ourselves, looking out only for those we deem worthy of humane treatment, is coloring our national identity. Good nations don’t have concentration camps. Good...
In Los Angeles County and its working-class suburbs, ‘a plague of fear and silence’ in once-busy immigrant hubs
Silicon Valley - California
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June 19, 2025
In the days since immigration raids descended on Los Angeles and surrounding cities, an eerie emptiness surrounds once-bustling spots, from laundromats to clinics, Home Depots and corner markets. The people who once frequented them are gone,...
DPS discovers 25 illegal immigrants, including a child, inside a box truck at LOC truck stop
My SouTex - Texas
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June 18, 2025
A routine investigation into a minor accident led to a major discovery on June 11, when a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Trooper uncovered 25 illegal immigrants, including a child, hidden inside a box truck at the Flying J Travel Center,...
Ideas & Opinions — Hits & Misses: Hit to Nevada County youth performances
The Union - California
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Each week we’ll run through the sublime, the trivial and profound issues, decisions and goings on that strike us as Hits or Misses. You can join in, too, by emailing your Hits & Misses to editboard@theunion.com, also, to efunez@theunion.com Miss...
Northern Illinois residents show solidarity with immigrants in the greater Chicagoland area
Northern Public Radio WNIJ - Illinois
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June 19, 2025
Organizers estimate that more than five million people took part in last weekend’s nationwide ‘No Kings’ rallies to protest Trump administration policies including deportation. Some northern Illinois communities are showing solidarity for...
US economy faces reckoning as some immigrants avoid workplaces
Christian Science Monitor
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June 19, 2025
Ten days after raids by federal immigration officials in Los Angeles set off a national protest movement, a Hispanic woman walks through the city’s Canoga Park neighborhood. She says she won’t give her name for concern that she might risk trouble...
One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village
The Guardian
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June 19, 2025
Armando López Pocol is showing off some of the thousands of trees he has planted in Pachaj, his village in the highlands of western Guatemala, when he suddenly halts his white pickup truck. Alongside an American volunteer, Lyndon Hauge, he gazes...