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Tico brewer avenges Trump comments on immigrants

A Costa Rican-owned brewery pulled its beer from the Chicago Trump Hotel bar after The Donald's inflammatory comments about immigrants. Then it avenged all Latinos by changing the beer's name.

As budget battles loom, Biden asks US Congress to approve aid for Central America

The plan was formulated in the wake of last year’s unprecedented exodus to the U.S. of families and children traveling alone from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Many were fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries.

US Coast Guard faces a new spike in Cuban ‘boat people’

The U.S. diplomatic opening with Cuba has spurred a seemingly unintended consequence: A flood of Cubans taking to makeshift rafts to get to the United States illegally due to concerns that a quick path to legal residency may end.

Remittances account for 10 percent of Guatemala’s GDP

JUTIAPA, Guatemala – The small village of Horcones sits at the end of a pothole-filled road in Jutiapa, in southeastern Guatemala. Here, about 40 percent of the population is dedicated to raising livestock, earning an income that isn’t reflected in the wealth of the whitewashed, Grecian-columned houses that are found in this farming community.

Costa Rican officials detain 23 undocumented migrants near Panama border

Costa Rican National Police officers conducting a routine patrol at 3 a.m. on Monday detained a group of 23 undocumented migrants – 19 of them from Nepal – while attempting to enter the country from Panama.

Immigrants find themselves torn between hope, defeat on Obama’s plans

In the U.S. city of Baltimore on Thursday, an undocumented mother from Mexico named Jessica Mejía, 31, was praying that President Barack Obama's executive action would protect her from deportation along with several million other illegal immigrants.

Obama: US will make immigration ‘more fair and just’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pledging to fix the United States' "broken" immigration system, President Barack Obama offered five million undocumented migrants protection from deportation Thursday, allowing families to emerge from the shadows and seek work permits.

US to grant refugee status to Central American child migrants

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States will allow some Central American children to apply for refugee status from their home countries, as Washington seeks to stem a large, clandestine influx of minors, U.s. Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.

Central American leaders offer plan to slow child migrant surge

GUATEMALA CITY – The presidents of three Central American nations that were the source of a wave of child migrants to the United States this year are going to Washington with a plan to boost economic growth and reduce violence in their countries.

For Central America’s migrant women, life can change in a second

“I left for the U.S., but halfway there I had the accident. I was riding above with some friends on the roof, and when we were arriving to the first immigration station, I was climbing down and all of the sudden a gust of wind came out of nowhere. I closed my eyes, and when I opened them, I was underneath the train."

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