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Honduras cuts ties with Taiwan in favor of China

Honduras is the latest country to fall under the influence of China’s soft campaign to isolate Taiwan on the world stage. The Honduran government cut diplomatic ties with  Taiwan over the weekend, ...

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MAYA: The Great Jaguar Rises to open at Union Station

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The record-breaking Auschwitz exhibition at Kansas City’s Union Station closed in March  to record crowds. Now, the next major exhibition, MAYA: The Great Jaguar Rises, will open July 13. (Editor’s note: this article ...

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‘MAYA: The Great Jaguar Rises’ will open at Union Station in May

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The record-breaking Auschwitz exhibition at Kansas City’s Union Station is closing this month. Station officials announced this week that the next major exhibition, MAYA: The Great Jaguar Rises, will open on May ...

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FAA bans drones filming 11,000 illegal Haitian immigrants at U.S. border

After Fox News broadcast images of 12,000 Haitians and others packed under a Texas-Mexico border bridge, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has imposed a no-fly zone. Fox was filming the mind-boggling images ...

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Supreme Court reinstates Trump ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy Biden had cancelled

The U.S. Supreme Court is ordering the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump “Remain in Mexico” policy. It requires people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico until their case is heard. The ...

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Court stops Biden executive order that ended deportations

The Biden administration has been given its first major setback in its immigration deregulation efforts. A federal judge Tuesday evening blocked President Biden’s executive order that stopped deportations. The moratorium announced by ...

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Guatemala to get $1 billion investment to improve economy, security

The best way to decrease illegal immigration, say many, is to produce economic incentives and better security for migrants to stay in their own country. The Trump administration announced late Wedesday it ...

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Christian school gives deaf Hondurans a voice

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“There goes that dumb kid,” people said. It was a half-truth. Hernan couldn’t speak because he couldn’t hear. Wandering the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, it wasn’t long before the drug dealers picked ...

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FBI: 64 percent of all federal arrests are noncitizens

President Trump was criticized for comments about high crime numbers associated with those entering the country illegally. The comments drew national criticism from immigration rights groups, Democrats and many Republicans. Now, the ...

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Honduras, El Salvador to join Guatemala, Mexico agreements with U.S

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Shortly after overseeing the signing of a historic “safe third country” asylum agreement with Guatemala at the Oval Office on July 26, President Donald Trump told reporters that he expects to soon sign similar deals with Honduras and ...

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Guatemala signs asylum deal with the U.S.

President Donald Trump, who has pushed hard to slow the flow of illegal migrants who are bypassing established asylum laws established by the UN, said Friday that the “safe third country asylum” ...

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‘It was like Hell’: Migrants stepping over dead bodies on journey

PANAMA – What started out as caravans of migrants winding their way north from Latin America has become an unbroken pipeline of people seeking to move to the United States. The vast ...

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Pope donates $500,000 to help migrant caravans

Migrants making their way towards the US are getting help from the Vatican. Pope Francis has donated $500,000  to help migrant caravans as they make their way towards the US border. The ...

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Organizer of latest migrant caravan arrested for child rape

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One of the organizers of the latest migrant caravan that left Honduras for the United States on Jan. 15, Juan Carlos Molina, was recently arrested for child rape. Last week, the Honduran paper La Tribuna reported that ...

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Evangelical leader sends letter to President on immigration and border

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Many in the faith community strongly support President Trump’s immigration and border efforts to stem the deadly flow of addictive and poisonous drugs into the nation, and to curtail the infiltration of ...

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New US policy: asylum-seeking people must wait in Mexico; 50,000 trying to cross border monthly

People heading to the southwest border to seek asylum in the United States will have to wait in Mexico until their claims are processed, under an agreement between the two countries announced ...

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3 charged in murder of local woman who retired to Belize

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Three people connected to disappearance of a Blue Springs woman in the Central American country of Belize have been arrested and charged with her murder. The body of 68-year-old Sherris Stringham had been ...

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Pastor released as church interpreter is murdered

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A prominent pastor who was kidnapped by paramilitaries in the Nicaraguan city of Leon has been released. Pastor Roberto Carlos Figueroa was kidnapped June 30 after he filed a defamation complaint with the Nicaraguan ...

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