Nation Oct 24 Border patrol agents sending migrants to false city addresses, sowing confusion The snafus suggest a pattern of Border Patrol agents, particularly in Texas, sending migrants without friends or family in the United States to offices that get no notice. The places often don’t have space to house migrants. Yet because those…
Nation Oct 24 U.S. Border Patrol is sending migrants to offices around the country, but no notice given About a dozen migrants who recently arrived in the U.S. and agreed to share documents they received when they were released from U.S. custody while they seek asylum after crossing the border with Mexico. Most had no idea where they…
Economy Jan 28 IMF urges El Salvador to scale back its push for Bitcoin as legal tender The International Monetary Fund says that El Salvador should dissolve the $150 million trust fund it created when it made the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender and return any of those unused funds to its treasury.
World May 27 Families separated at Mexico border build new American life America has jettisoned many of Trump's hardline immigration policies, but migrants reunited with their families face new difficulties.
World Mar 19 U.S. prosecutors say Honduras president took bribes in 2019 U.S. prosecutors say Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández accepted bribes from a drug trafficker as recently as 2019 — not just when he was running for office, as they earlier alleged.
World Jan 09 US motions expand drug claims against Honduras president The motions filed Friday with the U.S. Southern District of New York do not specifically name the president, referring to him as “CC-4,” or co-conspirator No. 4, but clearly identify him by naming his brother and his own post as…
Nation Apr 12 Millions of taxpaying immigrants won’t get stimulus checks The relief package that Congress approved to help Americans during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. but work here and pay taxes.
Nation Sep 22 Parents face tougher rules to get immigrant children back The Trump administration has imposed more stringent rules and vetting on immigrants in the U.S. trying to take custody of children who crossed the border on their own.
Politics Apr 30 Ahead of midterms, politicians try to woo Puerto Ricans who fled storm The intensity of political attention is new for Puerto Ricans, who are accustomed to not having much political clout. While they are U.S. citizens, they cannot vote in the presidential election while on the island, which is a territory not…