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As Immigrant Arrests Rise, Hawaiʻi Political Leaders Condemn ICE Tactics
Rep. Ed Case, the lone holdout, said criticisms didn’t capture his or constituents’ views on immigration. With the arrests of immigrants surging, most of Hawaiʻi’s congressional delegation accuse federal immigration agents of creating “fear and...

War on Women Report: MAGA Republicans Hope to Turn Miscarriage Into a Crime and Gut Planned Parenthood
MAGA Republicans are back in the White House, and Project 2025 is their guide—the right-wing plan to turn back the clock on women’s rights, remove abortion access, and force women into roles as wives and mothers in the “ideal, natural family...

Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Alleged Statutory Rape of Pregnant 13-Year-Old He Reportedly Transported to Tennessee from Guatemala
Esteban Taperia, who on Monday was subject to a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was arrested last week after he reportedly brought a 13-year-old girl from Guatemala to a Nashville hospital, where he allegedly admitted to...

ICE deports convicted child sex offender to Guatemala after NY prison release
18 BUFFALO, N.Y. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday removed a convicted child sex offender and Guatemalan national from the United States following his release from a New York state prison. Alvaro De Jesus Martinez-Juarez, 55,...

RELIGION HEADLINES SAT 6-21-25
Audio By Carbonatix (SRN NEWS) Seven families have filed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ requirement that public school classrooms display the 10 Commandments. The legislation was signed in April by Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It...

ICE Secretly Deported Grandpa, 82, Over Lost Green Card
An 82-year-old Pennsylvania man has been found after his family was led to believe that he had died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Luis Leon was finally located thousands of miles away in Guatemala after he went to a...

Crisis in the Middle East: Indigenous Solidarity vs. Imperial Hypocrisy
By Bhogtoram Mawroh Despite Israel’s utmost attempt to draw the United States (US) into a protracted conflict with Iran, a ceasefire has been declared for now. This is not the first time the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has...

Soccer roundup: Izzy Rodriguez scores in debut as US women blank Ireland
Izzy Rodriguez scored in her first appearance for the women’s national team and the United States shut out Ireland, 4-0, in Cincinnati on Sunday. Lynn Biyendolo, Yazmeen Ryan, and Alyssa Thompson also scored for the United States, which beat...

Northwest Arkansas lawmakers offer opposing views on federal immigration crackdown
Immigrants in Northwest Arkansas are no longer a self-contained group that can be removed without causing great pain and distress to the rest of the region, according to state Rep. Diana Gonzales Worthen. They are husbands and wives, fathers and...

2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup: Scouting Guatemala
Although many of the results have been less than impressive, the United States Men’s National Team advanced to the semifinal round of the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup following a shootout victory over Costa Rica (2-2 [4-3]). The road to the final has...

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville: Alabama's wake-up call — Why Trump's immigration policy matters
It’s no secret that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris oversaw the most disastrous open borders in American history. In my role as a U.S. senator, I opposed their willful failure to enforce our laws and protect American citizens every step of the way....

Undocumented parents prepare for the unthinkable: Giving up their kids
Children attending “Monarcas Luchadoras,” a youth leadership and development program, help pack food deliveries for people in their community who are afraid of leaving home to get groceries because of ICE. Christina House/Los Angeles Times/TNS LOS...

Latinos traen sus experiencias de Orgullo al Desfile del Orgullo LGBTQ+
Bailarines caminando con miembros del Ballet Folklórico de Chicago bailan y gritan a los atendientes del Desfile de Orgullo LGBTQ+ el domingo 29 de junio, 2025. Isabela Archila estaba más orgullosa que nunca en el Desfile del Orgullo LGBTQ+ en...

Who are immigration authorities targeting for arrest?
ICE targeted over 125 individuals in the Phoenix area, none of whom met the government's definition of a serious criminal. The majority of those targeted were accused of being in the country illegally, despite Trump's campaign promise to focus on...

Canada is ousted from CONCACAF Gold Cup by Guatemala
Open this photo in gallery:Canada head coach Jesse Marsch said his team has to learn to control itself in highly emotional moments, after losing Jacob Shaffelburgto a pair of yellow cards in their Gold Cup loss to Guatemala.Abbie Parr/The...
Belize, Guatemala and ICJ 2025
by Marie-Therese Belisle Nweke Thursday, June 26, 2025 There are a number of YouTube pro-Guatemala and anti-Belize videos, which for some time have been made regularly available to regional and global audiences by an active Guatemalan propaganda...

Canada squanders golden opportunity with shocking loss to Guatemala
An unheralded Canadian men’s side arrived at the 2000 Concacaf Gold Cup as distinct outsiders with few pundits giving them much of a chance to advance out of the group stage, never mind winning it all. But Canada overcame the long odds and pulled...

Illegal immigrants have no right to choose which country they are deported to
The Supreme Court finally slapped down this week one of the many Biden-appointed judges who have hampered President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts. The court blocked Judge Brian Murphy’s order creating new burdensome administrative hurdles and...

Letter writing contest boosts soft skills among youth
17 This year’s National Letter Writing Competition once again challenged students, aged 10 to 15, across Barbados to tackle complex issues through the written word, helping them to develop critical soft skills like communication, creativity, and...

A lack of immigration lawyers in CT means big court backlogs
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. Editor’s note: We now offer an audio version of our Sunday features. To access, click on the player above. On a recent Tuesday afternoon in a Hartford...