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Lexi Parra for NPRU.S. farmers are feeling the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown. In some communities, immigration raids have slowed farm operations. NPR reports from Central Florida's strawberry region. -
John Raoux/APA Florida agricultural worker fears seeking shelter from storms because of potential encounters with immigration agents. The Trump administration's policies have intensified these concerns, making shelters fair game for apprehension. Local law enforcement's collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exacerbates the situation.
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno has emerged as an interlocutor for conservatives in Latin America seeking to connect with the Trump administration. The Bogota-born Moreno visits Colombia this week as part of a three-nation Latin America tour. -
Miguel Uribe, 39, was shot three times while giving a campaign speech in Bogota and had been in intensive care since the attack. His family confirmed his death on Monday. -
More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have migrated since 2013, when their country's oil-dependent economy unraveled. Most settled in Latin America and the Caribbean, but after the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants saw the U.S. as their best chance to improve their living conditions. -
Just a decade ago, the era of U.S. wars, coup plots and military interventions in Latin America seemed to be ebbing when the Obama administration declared that the Monroe Doctrine, which long asserted U.S. military supremacy in the Americas, was dead. -
Two more people were arrested and charged under the law in July, according to a report Florida's attorney general is required to file as punishment for defying the judge's ruling. The state attorney's office dismissed the illegal entry charges against the men, according to the court filing. -
President Donald Trump said he has fulfilled one of his campaign promises: More people are leaving the country than immigrating to it, he said. Negative net migration is possible in 2025, but Trump "has no basis to make that claim until the US Census Bureau analyzes the 2025 data next year." -
Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions. -
Trump campaigned on helping American workers through his immigration policies. Now that he's revoked work authorization for thousands of immigrants, those left behind are feeling taxed by their absence. -
The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement. -
They are calling attention to what they describe as inhumane conditions and to demand the release of those held inside by state and federal authorities.
