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Pope Leo XIV’s link to Haiti is part of a broader American story of race, citizenship, and migrationPope Leo XIV's genealogy can be traced back to Haiti, where his grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. His census records tell a complex story about the history of race in the U.S.
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In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the lawmakers say gangs, including the Viv Ansanm coalition, control over 85% of the capital city of Port-au-Prince “and are rapidly expanding into previously stable areas.”
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A 2-year-old girl has arrived in Venezuela to reunite with her mother after she was separated from her parents when they were deported from the U.S. The South American country had denounced the move as a kidnapping.
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“This is extortion pretending to be generosity,” said Alex Berrios, co-Founder of Mi Vecino, adding that President Trump "is offering people a check to leave before ICE agents throw them into a detention center.”
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José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.
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Dozens of police departments have signed agreements to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts. One community in Miami-Dade County is waiting for a judge's opinion.
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Two groups, Keep Them Honest and a group of "Cubans with I-220A," have launched billboard ad campaigns in South Florida, targeting Republican Cuban American politicians Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Carlos Gimenez
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The pope’s maternal grandparents, both of whom are described as Black or mulatto in various historical records, lived in the city’s 7th Ward, an area that is traditionally Catholic and a melting pot of people with African, Caribbean and European roots.
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South Florida U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and María Elvira Salazar, along with Darren Soto, D-Orlando, said Thursday they introduced the Venezuela TPS Act of 2025 to extend Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants already in the U.S.
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COMMENTARY If the Trump administration wants federal judges to buy its deportation crusade, maybe it shouldn't admit every country it wants to deport migrants back to is a human rights hell hole.
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The memo weakens President Trump's argument for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday night on social media that five Venezuelan opposition leaders who'd escaped regime arrest by taking asylum in the Argentine embassy in Caracas 400 days ago had been rescued in a "precise" operation and brought to the U.S.