While campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination this year, former Senator and Vice President Joseph Biden has touted the crucial role he played in designing US mega-development and drug war campaigns that transformed the socio-political landscape of large swaths of Latin America. “I was one of the architects of Plan Colombia,” Biden boasted in […]
Honduras, El Salvador Expected to Follow After Guatemala, Mexico Make Immigration Deals with Trump…
Shortly after overseeing the signing of a “safe third country” asylum agreement with Guatemala at the Oval Office on July 26, President Donald Trump told reporters that he expects to soon sign similar deals with Honduras and El Salvador. Prior to the pact with Guatemala, Trump had already secured help from Mexico to tackle the […]
Man Arrested in Killing of Jersey City Nanny Was in U.S. Illegally and Deported Twice…
The man arrested in connection to the sexual assault and murder of a Jersey City nanny was in the U.S. illegally and had been deported twice before, ICE told PIX11 Thursday. Jorge Rios-Doblado, 33, is a citizen of Honduras who was in the U.S. illegally was deported in 2003 and 2004, ICE-ERO Newark said in […]
The Epidemic of Debt Plaguing Central American Migrants by Jonathan Blitzer…
When Elias López decided to leave his home in the western highlands of Guatemala for the United States, in 2014, the going rate to hire a smuggler was ninety thousand quetzales, or about twelve thousand dollars. López, who was eighteen, worked two jobs at the time, one in construction and the other as a day […]
Trump Warns of New Migrant Caravan Leaving Honduras…
As the battle over President Trump’s border wall drags on for its fourth week, President Trump is warning about a new migrant caravan forming in Honduras and will soon be on it way to the Southern border. In his tweet, Trump mocked Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, warning that “a drone flying around […]