Daniel Ortega stripped them of their citizenship, but the 222 Nicaraguan prisoners who arrived in the United States last week entered the country under a humanitarian parole, not as refugees. As a result, they are not automatically eligible for some essential benefits. Instead, they must rely on NGOs, charities and borrowing money from friends. (
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Roberto Rivas risked his life to help dismantle a "huge" human smuggling ring involving as many as 10,000 passports. He was brought to the United States as an informant on a special 'public benefit' visa, but claims he was then forgotten about by the agents he assisted. (
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Their adoptive parents in the U.S. refused to pay a bribe in Mexico. As a result, the Polinske children have been waiting 37 years for their Mexican adoption - and U.S. citizenship - to be recognized.
The US has rarely resorted to sanctions in Haiti, leading some to ask why the punitive tool wasn't used sooner? But some potential sanctions targets live in the United States, making execution more difficult.
A nonprofit organization, Resilience Force, is organizing immigrant workers to find jobs to rebuild Florida's west coast after Hurricane Ian struck. But it is demanding that contractors pay fair wages.
Cubans are leaving the island in record numbers thanks to an informal network of charter flights set up by less-than-transparent tour operators. Some question the motives of the Cuban and Nicaraguan governments.
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Economic crisis and political repression are driving the largest exodus of Cubans from the island. They are welcome in South Florida. But when they arrive, many end up trapped in legal limbo by new immigration restrictions. (Lea este artículo en español)
On his second try, Jose Cervera will finally become a U.S. citizen on Thursday. It took him more than a decade to unravel his identity, and even now he remains unsure of who he is.
Title 42 is a Covid-19-related immigration policy inherited from the Trump Administration and taken advantage of by the Biden Administration for more than a year. But it's coming to an end in May.
Thousands of Haitians flocked to the United States last year after the election of Joe Biden in the hope of benefiting from a more generous welcome from the White House than what awaited them under Donald Trump. But those hopes quickly evaporated. (
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Veteran analysts of Cuba see the hallmarks of well-tried strategy by Havana's ruling Communist Party to create an escape valve for growing political pressure on the island after mass protests in July. (
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A former U.S Marine facing deportation 30 years after he left active duty can now apply for naturalization, after Immigration Service expands rules, his lawyer says. (
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President Luis Abinader announced earlier this year that the project would be completed in two years, and recent events in Haiti have only increased his concern about insecurity in that country. Relations between the two neighbors have been historically difficult, marked by xenophobia.
This is the story of a family that traveled from Santiago, Chile to Del Rio, Texas over the course of a month. Thousands of others who followed the same route ended up in a migrant camp under a bridge, causing a major humanitarian embarassment for the Biden administration. (
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The crisis along the southern border is not going away. While Trump tried to fix it by decree, Biden is trying to overhaul the process. But experts warn the problem goes beyond policy: The immigration system is obsolete and cannot handle an exodus that does not stop.
In the first half of 2021, Mexico has received a record 51,654 asylum requests from migrants coming from 83 countries around the world, mostly Honduras and Haiti.
President Biden promised change at the southern border. But by continuing a Trump-era policy, known as Title 42, his administration is creating an invisible wall for thousands of asylum seekers who now find themselves in an indefinite limbo throughout border cities.
In her first foreign trip as vice president, Kamala Harris is seeking to tackle the seemingly insoluble problem of poverty, migration and corruption in Central America. The Biden administration's policy is a new, comprehensive, humanitarian approach. (
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The arrival of a homemade sailboat with at least 10 suspected Cuban migrants on a popular South Florida beach on Monday appears to indicate a resurgence in illegal migration from the communist-run island hit hard by the pandemic.