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It really has been a while since we've had a migrant caravan on the way to the US border. I can't remember the last one that made it through. I don't think there have been any since Trump took office. In fact, even before he took office he was taking credit for getting Mexico to agree to block any caravans that came our way. Here's what was reported back in December 2024:While Mr. Trump posted on social media that Mexico had agreed to stop migration to the United States through Mexico, “effectively closing our Southern Border,” Ms. Sheinbaum limited her...

San Pedro Sula – A Honduran news outlet has reported: A caravan of approximately 400 Hondurans departed from the Gran Central Metropolitana bus terminal in San Pedro Sula bound for the United States, seeking better living conditions and opportunities for their families. People from different parts of the country began to gather at the bus terminal, from where they began their journey to US territory. Among the members of the caravan are families with children, who decided to begin the migration route despite the difficulties and risks involved in the journey to the United States. The high cost of living...

BREAKING: Latino media outlets are reporting that a migrant caravan has assembled in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, with hundreds of migrants reportedly making their way toward the U.S. pic.twitter.com/QnxMjyNlGE— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 21, 2026VIDEO AT LINK.......... ========================================================================= Apparently they think the MID-TERM Elections will mean the end of the Trump Administration and a NEW Democrat POTUS will let them all in..............

Omaha, NE — More than a decade after Sarah Root was killed in a drunk-driving crash, her family says they finally have the justice they fought for. Root was 21 when she was killed in Omaha in January 2016. She had recently graduated from Bellevue University with a 4.0 GPA and planned to pursue a master’s degree in criminal investigations. Eswin Mejia was driving drunk and at a high rate of speed when he hit Root’s vehicle. He was released on a $5,000 bond and later fled to Honduras. After nearly a decade, Mejia was tracked down, brought back to...

A Honduran agitator arrested earlier this year at an anti-ICE protest in Southern California was busted by Homeland Security agents Friday on charges of illegally registering to vote — part of a crackdown on suspected election fraud in California. Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, 30, a Honduran national living in the San Fernando Valley, is accused of two felonies related to his false claims of US citizenship to complete voter registration forms, prosecutors say. Rivera Flores’ early-morning arrest outside a health-care center in Ventura is just the beginning of a war on suspected election fraud that has the full support of...

The wife of an active-duty US soldier was deported on Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ... Villafranca-Trejo, who entered the US in 2016 at age 18, was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2017 after failing to appear at a hearing, according to the DHS.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told 7News Reporter Nick Minock that ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Washington, D.C. officers arrested Jose Jairo Rivas-Santiago in June 2026. ICE says 32-year-old Rivas-Santiago is a suspected MS-13 gang associate convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery. In April 2019, ICE said Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Richmond agents found and arrested Rivas-Santiago on charges of armed robbery and conspiracy related to an MS-13 gang murder. ICE says HSI turned him over to the Richmond City Police Department for prosecution. In April 2021, ICE says a judge convicted him of murder and armed...

Three MS-13 gang members have been convicted of nine murders, kidnapping and racketeering in a Nevada courtroom. Jose Luis Reynaldo Reyes-Castillo of El Salvador, David Arturo Perez-Manchame of Honduras, and Joel Vargas-Escobar of El Salvador were all found guilty by a federal jury on Monday. The DOJ says all three had also been charged with gun offenses, and that all three were in the country illegally. The DOJ says all three men were part of the Parkview clique of MS-13, operating in Las Vegas. Evidence presented at trial showed that Vargas-Escobar was the leader of the clique until his arrest...

The U.S. government is significantly ramping up its efforts to capture two high-ranking leaders of the MS-13 gang, offering a combined reward of up to $15 million for information leading to their arrest or conviction. The State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs announced the major cash incentives under the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program. Specifically, authorities increased the reward to up to $10 million for Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, a fugitive widely known by the alias “Porky.” A separate reward of up to $5 million is being offered for Víctor Eduardo Morales Zelaya, who goes by...

Federal immigration agents have nabbed more than 10,000 migrant gangbangers since the start of President Trump’s second term, the US Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. The milestone, reached just a year and a half after Trump launched his sweeping mass deportations agenda, includes arrests tied to murder, assault with a deadly weapon, drug trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, robbery and extortion, according to DHS. “Many of these gang members were released into our country by Joe Biden,” said DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin. “These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized innocent Americans for sport.” “Thanks to the Secure America Act, ICE...

A wave of investigators descended on comedian Carlos Mencia’s Encino mansion Thursday as officers moved methodically through the property, hauling out boxes, sealed cases, and bags of materials tied to a sweeping tax fraud investigation. Photos from the scene show a heavy presence from the California Franchise Tax Board enforcement team, with officers posted across the driveway and front entrance as they carried evidence containers from inside the home to waiting vehicles. Multiple images capture officers actively removing stacked banker-style boxes and hard cases from the residence, staging them outside the property in organized piles. Black duffel bags and additional...

The first group of migrants deported from the US to third countries has arrived in Costa Rica. About 25 migrants — including citizens of Albania, Cameroon, China, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya and Morocco — touched down in the island nation’s capital of San Jose on Saturday. “Upon entering the country, the migrants will receive primary care from the Professional Migration Police, with ⁠the cooperation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),” Costa Rica’s General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners said in a statement. The group of 25 was the first to arrive in the Central American country since the US...

THE effects of President Donald Trump’s orders halting the United States’ refugee-assistance and overseas-aid programmes are already being felt, as charities lay off staff and slash support services. Episcopal Migration Ministries, an arm of the Episcopal Church in the US, which had a contract with the US government to help to settle refugees, is making 22 staff redundant after the new President’s first-day executive order halting the country’s refugee-resettlement programme. The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Dr Sean Rowe, announced the “painful” decision. Writing to church leaders, he said: “These departing employees have every reason to be angry, frustrated...

An 83-year-old veteran who was allegedly shoved onto subway tracks in New York City by an illegal immigrant with a long criminal history has died from his injuries, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday. Richard Williams, a retired Air Force pilot, died March 17 after he and another man were allegedly pushed onto the tracks at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Station days earlier. The alleged attacker, Honduran national Bairon Posada-Hernandez, 34, was arrested March 10 and faces a murder charge. John Pena, 30, the other man allegedly pushed onto the tracks, helped pull Williams back onto the platform moments before...

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday in a social media post that eight percent of the total population of Nicaragua illegally came into the United States under the Biden administration, which siphoned resources from the U.S. The department said a large percentage of Cuban, Haitian and Honduran nationals are also in the United States illegally, consisting of 7% of Cuba's total population, 6% of Haiti's, and 5% of Honduras,' according to Fox News. "Illegal immigration is siphoning American resources," the department posted on X. "Due to unchecked migration during the Biden era, 8% of the ENTIRE population of Nicaragua...

As if it were a medieval explorer circumnavigating the unknown world half a millennium ago, the newest brand of political conservatism is beginning to reach all parts of the globe’s democratically elected national governments. Each version of this political trend, like a fingerprint, is unique, but its general principles are being established as voters everywhere reject leftist governments that have touted social welfare, redistributionist ideologies, and various neo-Marxist policies which have failed. Almost every week brings news of another conservative victory in a national election. This past week, it was the surprise landslide victory for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s...

On Friday, a Manchester resident may leave the Granite State for the last time. Oscar Gutierrez, 40, is detained at Strafford County jail for staying in the country illegally. He’s due to be flown to Louisiana, and from there, back to his original country of Honduras. This may effectively be a death sentence. As a teen, Gutierrez fled Honduras 22 years ago after refusing to join MS-13, a criminal gang. Threats followed him to the U.S. If he ever returns, he will be murdered, according to his family. Gutierrez’s wife, Mirna, said she has presented evidence of the threats to...

Here is a Latin America map (image), I marked in green the countries already pro US, and even pro Trump: * Argentina. * Chile * Panama (nothing new) * Paraguay * Honduras

For over a year, Elías Padilla had been saving up to make the journey from Honduras to the United States as an undocumented immigrant. As an Uber driver in the snarled streets of the capital, Tegucigalpa, it hasn't been easy for him to put money aside. On bad days he makes as little as $12 (£9) in 12 hours. Now, though, his plans are on hold. The images of undocumented immigrants in major US cities being dragged away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, their wrists in zip-ties, have deterred at least one would-be immigrant in Central America from...

Nasry “Tito” Asfura, the conservative candidate in Honduras endorsed by President Trump, was declared the winner of the country’s presidential election on Wednesday after a weeks-long vote count. Asfura, the 67-year-old former mayor of the Central American country’s capital city of Tegucigalpa, edged out Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla in a 40.27% to 39.53% vote, according to electoral authorities. Rixi Moncada of the left-wing incumbent LIBRE Party finished with only 19.19% of the vote. “Honduras: I am prepared to govern,” Asfura wrote on X. “I will not fail you.” Trump publicly backed Asfura last month ahead of the Nov. 30...