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Christian Chavez/AP/APThe program began in 2022 with Venezuelans as an effort to provide an alternative legal pathway for migrants who were increasingly coming to the U.S.-Mexico border. It later expanded to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans.The program allowed them to live and work in the U.S. for two years while they sought other legal status. -
Matias Delacroix/APThe Dominican Republic's government spokesman Homero Figueroa said that the government took the decision after noticing an “excess” of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
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As someone who has worked extensively with asylum-seekers at the border since 2019, I see clear differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on the issue of immigration. -
Claudia Sheinbaum has been sworn in as Mexico’s first female president, riding the enthusiasm over her predecessor’s social programs but also facing challenges that include stubbornly high levels of violence. -
A new report has found that nearly 6,000 people in Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country’s population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse, as gang violence smothers life in the capital of Port-au-Prince and beyond. -
As President Daniel Ortega continues to consolidate power by crushing opposition, Nicaragua has deteriorated into an oppressive state ruled with an iron fist. -
The president of the Dominican Republic has warned that his administration would take “drastic measures” to protect the country if a U.N.-backed mission in neighboring Haiti targeting gang violence fails. -
COMMENTARY: Donald Trump's abhorrent lies have perhaps permanently refashioned Americans' sense of immigration reality — the way climate change has resigned them to ovenlike heat — and may very well help him win in November. -
American photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg's new book — Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-84 — revisits one of the Cold War's bloodiest proxy conflicts, and the U.S.'s complicity in it, for readers who can still see its effects today. -
Law enforcement authorities across the U.S. are increasingly focused on a Venezuelan gang behind a spate of violent crimes. The Tren de Aragua traces its origin more than a decade ago to an infamously lawless prison. -
Dozens of U.S. families are asking the U.S. government for humanitarian parole for some 70 children they’re adopting. -
A federal court in Argentina has ordered the “immediate” arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for alleged crimes against humanity committed against dissidents.
