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Defensor católico de la inmigración denuncia fallo de la Corte Suprema que permite deportaciones a un tercer país
Migrants detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing into the United States from Mexico to request asylum get into a vehicle to be transferred to a detention center in El Paso, Texas, Dec. 19, 2022. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez,...
Eastern Iowans rally around West Liberty soccer player detained by ICE
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Pascual Pedro was 13 years old when he came to the United States from Guatemala with his dad in 2018. His father was detained and deported shortly...

Mission to the final: El Farolito’s double feature
Read Mission Local often? Help grow our newsroom, joining the hundreds of San Franciscans who support us by giving below. Come Saturday morning, the men of El Farolito won’t be hauling demolition gear or navigating early morning Uber runs. They’ll...

Mercer Island Rotary: Giving back to our community and world | Hamer
At Summer Celebration on July 12, the Rotary Club of Mercer Island had an information table that we staffed for several hours. It’s always surprising to me how many people stop by and ask: “What is Rotary anyway? What do you guys do?” Well, we...

Will an American pope mean a wave of new American saints?
The announcement of a new pope is often followed by canonizations of saints from the pope’s home country - either because the new pontiff has a personal affinity for a particular individual whose cause for canonization is open, or because the...

IDB’s estimates likely provide a more accurate view of the significant poverty level here
Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Joel Bhagwandin’s letter in the July 19, 2025 edition of Stabroek News, where he questions the World Bank’s accuracy of the 2019 poverty rate of 48%. While he raises valid concerns about the use of outdated data, his...

Every child needs a HUG
A chance encounter on a street in Guatemala in 2018 led a Maysville woman to create a unique program to help underprivileged Guatemalan children get an education. Help Us Go to School (HUGS) was created in 2019 by Janni Martin as a way to help...

ICE memo allows deportation to non-home countries, raising legal and human rights concerns
Share Post Viber icon Viber Email WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new internal memo from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorizing deportations to countries where migrants are not citizens is raising serious legal and humanitarian concerns...

Donald Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order Faces Legal Blow
A federal judge in New Hampshire has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's executive order ending birthright citizenship, marking a major legal setback for the president's immigration agenda. The ruling, issued from the bench by Judge...

Solving the Border Crisis
This article was originally published by The Epoch Times: Solving the Border Crisis Commentary It’s not about open borders or closed borders. It’s not about left or right. It’s about the fact that while some posture and others protest, real people...

Jaffna mass grave, a test for the Dissanayake government
A mass grave site in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district,which has drawn domestic and international attention, is putting to test the Anura Kumara Dissanayake government’s pledge to address Tamil people’s grievances. The site was discovered by...

Hugo Blanco’s revolutionary legacy: An interview with María Blanco
Hugo Blanco (1934–2023) was a Peruvian revolutionary involved in grassroots struggles across Peru, Latin America and the world. He led a militant fight for land rights in Peru in the 1960s, for which the Ricardo Pérez Godoy military junta...

Tucson speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Jul. 18, 2025
Project Blue data center Please. We’ve already got too much data, and too little water. George Timson Midtown FEMA A quick Google search (Would most states support the elimination of FEMA) yields the following: “There is widespread consensus among...

Latinos, roofers are prime ICE targets in WNY
Agents, armed and masked, are raiding job sites and hauling away workers. Contractors say roofing costs are rising as a result. An ICE raid took place on Crescent Avenue in May. Photo submitted. Rather than targeting the “worst of the worst,” as...
Carolina teen turns beach plastic into best-selling swimwear
When the pandemic closed his middle school in Holly Springs five years ago, Holden Bierman asked his parents for a $500 loan — not for video games or a bicycle, but to launch a company. Bierman was 12, printing hoodies and T-shirts in his bedroom....

What an America First Guestworker Policy Could Look Like
Liberals view mass immigration as a terror weapon to be used against the recalcitrant native population. Before Trump, this was the unstated but obvious purpose of American border policy. Even now, it is the de facto immigration policy of every...

Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
COP30 in Brazil is an opportunity to spotlight the risks facing environmentalists and to ramp up measures to better protect them. Ana María Palacios Briceño leads civic space research for the Americas at the CIVICUS Monitor. Eduardo Marenco leads...
Opinion: Bring Pedro back to make his case
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. While campaigning for president, Donald Trump proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, but his administration would focus on immigrants...

'Hit home that things have changed': Detained mother and daughter reflect ICE detention trends
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained more than 56,000 people as of mid-June of this year, according to Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC.What the numbers showRising actions by ICE over the last six months, and falling...

Protestors gather in Phoenix to protest Trump policies, honor late civil rights icon John Lewis
A smattering of protests in Phoenix took place Thursday as part of a larger round of national anti-Trump demonstrations under the name Good Trouble Lives On, in a reference to the late civil rights icon and member of Congress John Lewis....