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Pastor, father of 5 deported to Guatemala after 2 decades in Florida

Pastor, father of 5 deported to Guatemala after 2 decades in Florida

By CP StaffTuesday, July 08, 2025 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents making an effort to deport an undocumented illegal immigrant. | U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementA pastor who led a small Hispanic church in Florida was deported...

Remember the Time LA Mayor Karen Bass Barged Into MacArthur Park and Ordered the MS-13 to Leave?

Remember the Time LA Mayor Karen Bass Barged Into MacArthur Park and Ordered the MS-13 to Leave?

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gave herself away after she confronted Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducting a huge operation at the famous — and infamous — MacArthur Park on Monday and ordered them to leave immediately. Federal agents,...

Guatemalan man sentenced for illegal reentry after multiple removals

Guatemalan man sentenced for illegal reentry after multiple removals

Jason R. Coody, U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of FloridaJason R. Coody, U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Frizli Merari Miguel-Martinez, a 35-year-old Guatemalan national, has been...

Guatemalan man receives 8 months prison for illegal reentry after Santa Rosa County arrest

Guatemalan man receives 8 months prison for illegal reentry after Santa Rosa County arrest

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. -- A 35-year-old Guatemalan man was sentenced to eight months in federal prison for illegal reentry following a previous deportation after being arrested in Santa Rosa County earlier this year. Frizli Merari Miguel-Martinez...

West Liberty man with no criminal background deported to Guatemala

West Liberty man with no criminal background deported to Guatemala

When Pascual Pedro Pedro immigrated to eastern Iowa from Guatemala seven years ago, he was given an official order of expedited removal, but allowed to remain in the country under special supervision. The expedited removal order would have been...

West Liberty man deported to Guatemala despite community’s efforts to stop it

West Liberty man deported to Guatemala despite community’s efforts to stop it

After being detained by ICE during a routine check-in, Pascual Leonardo Pedro-Pedro was deported to Guatemala despite efforts from the West Liberty community. WEST LIBERTY, Iowa — Pascual Leonardo Pedro-Pedro has been deported to Guatemala, days...

Credit unions as key international development actors

Credit unions as key international development actors

Credit unions play a key role in international development as promoters of affordable financial services. This role is particularly important since, despite considerable progress in recent years, over 1.7 billion adults worldwide remain unbanked....

DHS Releases Names of Worst of the Worst Convicted Criminal Illegal Aliens Detained at Guantanamo Bay

DHS Releases Names of Worst of the Worst Convicted Criminal Illegal Aliens Detained at Guantanamo Bay

Pedophiles, murderers, kidnappers, and other violent criminals are being held at the military facility WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released the names of some of the dangerous, criminal illegal aliens detained at...

ICE detains asylum-seeking drag queen in San Francisco

ICE detains asylum-seeking drag queen in San Francisco

On June 26, a Guatemalan drag performer, known under the stage name Hilary Rivers, attended his scheduled asylum hearing in San Francisco, California. The judge denied the government’s motion to dismiss the drag queen’s asylum case, but ICE...

Trump Admin Detains Foreigners From 26 Countries at Guantanamo

Trump Admin Detains Foreigners From 26 Countries at Guantanamo

The Trump administration is holding dozens of foreigners from 26 different countries at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as President Donald Trump presses ahead with dispatching the notorious military prison in his immigration crackdown. Seventy-two...

Why this dope smoking, privately educated Marxist - set to be New York's next mayor - could bankrupt the once proud city I call home: TOM LEONARD

Why this dope smoking, privately educated Marxist - set to be New York's next mayor - could bankrupt the once proud city I call home: TOM LEONARD

The New York subway system has never exactly been a cosy place, but the past six months have seen two crimes take place there that appalled even its most hardened travellers. Three days before Christmas, a man approached a woman sleeping on a...

Guatemala Considers Autonomy Initiative as Realistic Basis to Resolve Moroccan Sahara Dispute

Guatemala Considers Autonomy Initiative as Realistic Basis to Resolve Moroccan Sahara Dispute

Accra, July 4, GNA-The Republic of Guatemala has affirmed that the autonomy initiative put forward by Morocco in 2007 is “the only serious, credible and realistic basis to move towards a lasting agreement for a definitive settlement of this...

Jamaican among convicted migrants held at Guantanamo Bay, says DHS

Jamaican among convicted migrants held at Guantanamo Bay, says DHS

A Jamaican man is among a group of convicted foreign nationals now being detained at Guantanamo Bay, following an order by U.S. President Donald J. Trump to expand the use of the military facility to hold what the Department of Homeland Security...

Rights group raises concerns over water crisis in Guatemala amid government inaction

Rights group raises concerns over water crisis in Guatemala amid government inaction

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a new report released Wednesday of dire consequences from Guatemala’s water crisis, which it stressed endangers the health and fundamental rights of millions of Guatemalans, particularly Indigenous communities...

How the CIA Infiltrates Politics in Plain Sight-and How Abigail Spanberger and Elissa Slotkin are Upping the Ante

How the CIA Infiltrates Politics in Plain Sight-and How Abigail Spanberger and Elissa Slotkin are Upping the Ante

In a recent report, Restoration News investigated the intelligence ties of Abigail Spanberger and Elissa Slotkin: Former CIA operatives who became rising Democratic stars off their national security experience and “centrist” leanings. It showed an...

US court clears deportation of 8 migrants to South Sudan despite legal fight

US court clears deportation of 8 migrants to South Sudan despite legal fight

The decision came on Friday, July 4, after U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ruled that he was bound by a recent Supreme Court order, which had earlier clarified that the Department of Homeland Security could no longer be barred from deporting the...

Man from Guatemala charged with child rape in Limestone County; ICE notified

Man from Guatemala charged with child rape in Limestone County; ICE notified

A serious crime involving a child leads to the arrest of a 29-year-old man in Limestone County. The Limestone County Sheriff's Office identified Juan Castro Hernandez of Guatemala as the suspect in the rape of a child under 10. Officials from the...

Guatemala Considers Autonomy Initiative As 'Only Serious, Credible And Realistic Basis' For Resolving Moroccan Sahara Regional Dispute

Guatemala Considers Autonomy Initiative As 'Only Serious, Credible And Realistic Basis' For Resolving Moroccan Sahara Regional Dispute

(MENAFN- APO Group) The Republic of Guatemala affirmed on Thursday that the autonomy initiative put forward by Morocco in 2007 is“the only serious, credible and realistic basis to move towards a lasting agreement for a definitive settlement of...

Guatemala Backs Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara

Guatemala Backs Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara

Rabat — Guatemala threw its full support behind Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara on Thursday, calling it the only realistic path to resolving the decades-old territorial dispute. Foreign Minister Carlos Ramiro Martinez Alvarado told...

Guatemala: More than 865,000 children work in homes and streets

Guatemala: More than 865,000 children work in homes and streets

In Alta and Baja Verapaz, Chiquimula and Petén there are more cases of minors helping to load firewood or performing other activities considered dangerous, the newspaper Publinews detailed after a document prepared with data from the National...

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