Claudia Torrens
The Associated Press
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US Border Patrol sending migrants to places where no help awaits
A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year. In the 12-m → Read More
US Border Patrol sending migrants to offices with no notice
NEW YORK (AP) — When Wilfredo Molina arrived in the U.S. from his native Venezuela, he told border agents he wanted to go to Miami but didn’t have an address. They directed him to what he tho… → Read More
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a new level by catching officials flat-footed in Martha's Vineyard with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants → Read More
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Texas
The Venezuelan migrants who were flown to the wealthy Massachusetts island from San Antonio by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said they were told they were going to Boston. → Read More
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Texas
The Venezuelan migrants who were flown to the wealthy Massachusetts island from San Antonio by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said they were told they were going to Boston. → Read More
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Texas
The Venezuelan migrants who were flown to the wealthy Massachusetts island from San Antonio by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said they were told they were going to Boston. → Read More
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The chief executive of Martha's Vineyard Community Services was wrapping up work when she looked outside to see 48 strangers at her office with luggage, backpacks and red folders that included brochures for her organization. → Read More
Octogenarian brothers make popular hand-drawn posters
NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Miguel and Carlos Cevallos made a living by drawing posters for neighborhood nightclubs, taco trucks and restaurants in Queens, painting in the businesses’ basements or o… → Read More
After pot conviction, NY couple plans for legal dispensary
A couple who endured the war on drugs, including jail time, is now eager to open a recreational marijuana dispensary in New York → Read More
Families separated at border now fear extortion attempts
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the 30-year-old Honduran woman, the worst seemed to be over. She's been reunited with her son who, as a 6-year-old, was separated from her under the Trump administration. She's working construction in North Carolina. And attorneys were negotiating a payment for families like hers that endured separations. But reports about those negotiations have created a new worry:… → Read More
Penelope Cruz honored by Museum of Modern Art for her career in cinema
NEW YORK (AP) — During a tribute to her career at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Penelope Cruz recalled the Betamax videotape store that opened in her neighborhood, in a suburb of Madrid, when she was a child and that made her discover cinema. It was there where she rented all the films of Spanish movie director Pedro Almodóvar, she said. "I watched, and I laughed, I cried, and I… → Read More
New 'rocket docket' for migrant families raises old concerns
The average time for U.S. immigration cases to be resolved is nearly four years. But that's not the mandate in Francisco Prieto’s courtroom. → Read More
New fast-track docket for migrants faces familiar challenges
NEW YORK (AP) — The average time for U. S. immigration cases to be resolved is nearly four years. But that's not the mandate in Francisco Prieto’s courtroom. The New York judge must attempt to rule within 300 days on dozens of cases he hears daily from families that just entered the country. The migrants are being sent to the front of the line with the idea that others will be less likely to… → Read More
Immigrant Sept. 11 cleanup crews seek residency as a reward
Immigrant workers who helped clean up buildings in lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks have long asked for years to obtain legal status as a way to compensate for the work and subsequent health problems they suffered → Read More
Bitcoin brings hopes, doubts for Salvadorans sending money
Several countries have dabbled in cryptocurrencies, but none has gone so far as El Salvador → Read More
Bitcoin brings hopes, doubts for Salvadorans sending money
El Salvador is betting that this week's pioneering adoption of Bitcoin will spur its economy, especially one of its most crucial sources of revenue: money sent home by Salvadorans in → Read More
Rising numbers of Ecuadorians hurt by pandemic head to US
An extraordinary number of Ecuadorians has been coming to the United States — often to New York → Read More
Hard hit by pandemic, Ecuadorians leave for New York
An extraordinary wave of Ecuadorians has been coming in the United States — often to New York → Read More
Hard hit by pandemic, Ecuadorians leave for New York
NEW YORK (AP) — It took just a few days for Monica Muquinche to reach New York after leaving Ecuador’s Andean highlands with her 10-year-old son. She flew to Mexico City, took a bus to the U.S. → Read More
Families separated at Mexico border ask for residency, aid
Several parents who were separated from their children on the U. S. -Mexico border during former President Donald Trump's administration on Friday asked the Homeland Security Secretary for permanent legal residency in the United States and compensation, said the mother of two of the children. Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe, who was separated from two sons in the fall of 2017, said a group of parents… → Read More