Guatemala

Data show most migrants the Trump administration is deporting, including in South Florida, are non-criminals — and increasingly they're people who are being sent back to countries they haven't seen in decades.

The children of a respected Guatemalan community leader in Lake Worth Beach are missing school and work as court delays keep their undocumented mother detained for months. It’s a look at the toll the immigration system takes on families fighting to stay together.

A seven-month-old Bonita Springs organization is helping families navigate life after a loved one is deported.

A judge is blocking the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country.

A report by Global Witness reveals that at least 146 land and environmental defenders have been killed or gone missing worldwide in 2024.

Attorneys for the children ask for a longer-term block, saying deportation would put them in danger and violate their rights.

The Trump administration has tried to deport Guatemalan children living in U.S. shelters or foster care. Advocates for these children filed lawsuits to stop the removals, and a federal judge has temporarily blocked the deportations. The administration says it's reuniting children with families at the Guatemalan government's request. However, advocates argue the process bypasses immigration courts and frightens the children.

Guatemalan journalist and founder of El Periodico José Rubén Zamora has been returned to jail after an appellate court sided with prosecutors and withdrew his house arrest.

At least 55 people are dead after their bus plunged into a gorge and landed under a bridge Monday on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital.

In the first week of President Donald Trump's second term, the Department of Homeland Security reported deporting some 7,300 people. Among them were a planeload of Guatemalans who touched down in that country's capital this week, three days after being apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo anticipates there will be issues like immigration that will generate tension with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, but the former peacebuilder also sees shared interests.

Hundreds of Nicaraguan religious leaders, students, activists, dissidents and journalists are 'stateless.' President Daniel Ortega's government stripped them of their citizenship, homes and government pensions. They are scattered across the United States and other countries, in limbo as they struggle to recover from physical and psychological trauma.