The city, which has the largest Venezuelan population in the country, is finalizing an agreement with the federal immigration agency to allow local authorities to question, detain, and prosecute people suspected of violating immigration laws
The figure has been mentioned as the objective of the mass expulsion operation, but logistical and financial obstacles cast doubt on whether it can be achieved
The president of El Salvador denies in an Oval Office meeting that he has the power to return Kilmar Abrego García, wrongly deported to the maximum-security facility for gang members
Official data places the total number of Venezuelans in the United States at 2% of its Latino residents, and shows that only 0.08% are linked to their home country’s most notorious criminal group
After the Trump administration canceled humanitarian parole for around 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants, work permits were next to follow
The Trump administration cancels and invalidates the permits issued by the Biden administration’s app, which granted protection to nearly one million people
Peruvian-Mexican Musuk Nolte won this year’s World Press Photo in the South America stories category for his coverage of the drought in Manaus, Brazil
Without passports and trapped by a sealed border, hundreds of Venezuelans seek repatriation at their embassy after being persecuted and kidnapped at the border
The gang, born in a Venezuelan prison, is considered a powerful criminal organization, but it is not capable of being a national security threat as Donald Trump claims
Deportation fears intensify after Trump’s decision to end humanitarian parole, which has left 1.2 million people without legal protection
The U.S. President has announced his tariff plan, however, he did not mention measures against Mexico or Canada
A lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union provides evidence of a scoring system used by authorities to decide whether migrants are gang members who could be deported
The 532,000 migrants who entered the country under the protection program that President Trump has repealed have one month to return or may face ‘adverse consequences’
The U.S. administration is demanding the lifting of the ban on using an 18th-century law of war to expel irregular migrants without judicial oversight
The US Secretary of State considers Caracas’ sovereignty claims over the Essequibo region to be illegitimate, and expresses support for the small oil-rich nation where ExxonMobil operates
Kristi Noem showcases her support for the Salvadoran president and visits the center where the 200 Venezuelans deported in mid-March are being held
The criminalization of migrants, the uncertainty surrounding sanctions against the Venezuelan government, and the US president’s interests further exacerbate the country’s political crisis
A Salvadoran law firm hired by the Maduro government says there is no legal basis for keeping Trump’s deportees in prison
The Maduro government is threatening to take legal action against what it considers a violation of international trade laws
The Republican administration will revoke the legal status with which hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have entered the country since 2022
The gang member, deported Sunday, is a founder member of the Ranfla Nacional, the criminal high command that negotiated homicide reductions in exchange for prison benefits with several Salvadoran governments, including Bukele’s
The criminalization of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador heightens the vulnerability of a group of 600,000 people who are without consular assistance
Families recognize their loved ones in videos from the Salvadoran prison where the US deported nearly 300 people with alleged ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. Some have clean criminal records. No one knows if they’ll be able to return home
Jerce Reyes Barrios’ lawyer claims that the famous club’s logo and a hand gesture were enough for authorities to accuse her client, a kids’ soccer coach, of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang
Relatives of the deportees transferred by Trump to Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison deny that they are criminals: ‘Not everyone belongs to Tren de Aragua’
Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Assembly and Maduro’s main political operative, says that the laws promoted by Donald Trump are comparable to ‘the racial laws of Nazi Germany’
The judge blocked the application of an 18th-century law that Trump invoked to deport detainees linked to the Tren de Aragua criminal organization. The case may now head to the Supreme Court
