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Honduran national arrested in July 4 deadly hit-and-run crash: HCSO
BRANDON, Fla. - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says deputies have arrested a Honduran national accused of causing a deadly crash on the Fourth of July, then taking off. The backstory: HCSO says the crash happened in the area of...

Expertos: El fin del TPS para Honduras y Nicaragua muestra una ‘falta de discernimiento’ y provoca miedo
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Co-President Rosario Murillo, are seen in file photo. Under the Ortega-Murillo regime, Nicaragua has seen a brutal crackdown on the Catholic Church and faces a human rights crisis, as does...

Qmmunity: On That 1800s Vibe
Slaying the undead look this summer (art by Henry Clarke) Hope you’re all staying dry out there in queer Austin-land, or at least getting wet in a fun way rather than an environmentally destructive one. (Chose this weekend to go offline? Lucky for...

Where things stand with Trump and immigration nearly 6 months in
President Donald Trump headed back to the White House in January after a campaign where he promised to take an aggressive stance on immigration and conduct the largest mass deportation in U.S. history. Since taking office, border crossing numbers...

Immigration arrests in Colorado have surged under the Trump administration. Now we know how much.
Colorado’s first immigration arrest of the second Trump administration came shortly after the president was inaugurated on Jan. 20. Before the inaugural ball kicked off in the nation’s capital, a Honduran man in his late 20s was arrested in Craig....

Honduran migrant charged after fatal hit-and-run in Riverview
RIVERVIEW, Fla. (WFLA) — The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said a man involved in a Fourth of July crash has been located and arrested. At around 4:50 a.m. on Friday, officers responded to a call reporting a crash near Providence Road and...

Trump administration holding immigrants from 26 countries at Guantánamo prison
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Supervisors Move to Shield Immigrant Communities from Escalating Federal Enforcement
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors July 8 passed three motions introduced by Chair Pro Tem and First District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis to defend immigrant communities amid a sharp escalation in federal immigration...

DHS Quietly Ends TPS For Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Reversing Decades Of Protection
By News Americas Staff Writer News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Weds. July 9, 2025: In a sweeping move that could impact tens of thousands of Central American immigrants living in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has formally...

Foreign nationals sentenced for illegal reentry, fraudulent immigration documents
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday sentenced four foreign nationals, two of whom admitted to illegal reentry and two for possession of fraudulent immigration documents, to time served in prison and remanded them to U.S. Customs and Border...

Sharing the love of Jesus in Honduras
Anderson Baptist Church sent two groups to Honduras for their annual mission trip. The second group is a medical team that will assist in the community of El Naranjal. They will be gone for 5 days. Each year the church sends workers to assist in a...
Protected Status Ends for Nicaragua, Honduras
By Ariana Figueroa, States Newsroom WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ended temporary protections Monday for nationals from Nicaragua and Honduras, opening up roughly 76,000 people to deportations by early September. The...

A day outside an ICE detention center shows the acute weight of arbitrary immigration raids on families
It is here where families, some with lawyers, come to find their loved ones after they’ve been arrested by federal immigration agents. For immigrants without legal status who are detained in this part of Southern California, their first stop is...

How immigration crackdowns, ICE raids will affect recruitment in 2025
In 2025, there has been no shortage of immigration news. President Donald Trump campaigned on immigration reform and is now seeing through renewed enforcement of immigration laws. For example, on Monday, the Trump administration announced the...
Supervisors Approve Motions to Defend Immigrant Communities Amid Escalating Federal Immigration Enforcement
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today passed three motions introduced by Chair Pro Tem and First District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis to defend immigrant communities amid a sharp escalation in federal immigration enforcement over the...

ICE captures deadly MS-13 gang member after Maryland Police let him go | US immigration crackdown
Federal authorities in Indiana recently nabbed two illegal immigrants accused of murder and strangulation, among other violent crimes. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents detained Honduran...

Attorneys Say They Can’t See Immigration Clients At Alligator Alcatraz
Donald Trump (2L), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (C), and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem ... More (2R) tour a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Immigration attorneys say they have been unable to see their clients...

Immigration arrests in San Francisco region up 77% since Trump took office
Since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have shot up 77% in Northern California since the last year-plus of Joe Biden’s administration, according to recently released data from ICE. The...
Revoking temporary protected status "a severe blow" to migrants in U.S., says Honduran president
TEGUCIGALPA, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Tuesday criticized the U.S. decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for migrants, calling it "a severe blow" to tens of thousands of Hondurans living and working in...

‘Cruel and unjust’: Hondurans, Nicaraguans in S.F. reel after Trump ends immigration protections
Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Hondurans and Nicaraguans in San Francisco are shaken after President Donald Trump announced the end of “temporary protected status” for some...