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Alejandro Granadillo/APCOMMENTARY The English-only furor over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl gig disingenuously disregards America's historical reality — but so does a Spanish-only mindset that many immigrants still embrace. -
U.S. Joint Chiefs of StaffFour sources — two U.S. officials familiar with the planning and two others familiar with the discussions — told NBC News that the Trump administration is considering options that primarily focus on drone strikes targeting the members and leadership of drug trafficking groups, as well as drug labs.
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Sick children, families and businesses are among the many people in Haiti, a country plagued by gang violence, likely to be hit hard by a U.S. travel ban. -
How the new travel ban rules immediately impact visitors from Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti is unclear. The policy, which officially takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m., does not have an end date. -
The brazen attack on Saturday was captured on video and shook a country that decades ago often faced kidnappings and killings of politicians and high-profile people. -
Immigration raids have been so rare in Puerto Rico that its only detention facility, in an office building next to a mall, can hold only about 20 detainees. Yet federal authorities in the U.S. territory have detained more than 500 people since President Donald Trump took office in January. -
Haitian and Venezuelan community leaders condemned President Donald Trump’s newly announced travel ban policy that will impact hundreds of thousands of South Florida families with ties to both countries. -
COMMENTARY The partisan leash Mexico's ruling party just clamped on the country's judiciary should be a warning that America's courts are also in the crosshairs of a president pushing loyalty over legality. -
President Donald Trump on Wednesday resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of 12 countries — including Haiti — would be banned from visiting the United States. Those from Cuba and Venezuela, along with five other countries would face heightened restrictions. -
A new report says that a record 38 million metric tons of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, with more expected this month. It’s the biggest amount of algae spotted in the region since scientists began studying the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in 2011. -
Rebecca González runs one of ICE's local domestic intelligence offices. She told NPR how her agents are tracking down immigrants in Puerto Rico to deliver on President Trump's mass deportation promise. -
Haiti's desperate interim government is reportedly turning to foreign mercenaries to defeat the country's powerful gangs — but key Caribbean leaders say the route now should be dialogue.
