Kate Linthicum

Is Tren de Aragua a real threat -- or a convenient villain? Trump uses Tren de Aragua to justify deportations and deadly strikes on boats. Experts say it doesn't pose a threat.

How Trump is using Tren de Aragua to justify mass deportations, deadly strikes in the Caribbean and -- some believe -- perhaps a push for regime change in Venezuela.

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Mexico's Jewish president calls on Israel to end 'genocide in Gaza' Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, called Israel's war on Gaza a 'genocide,' marking a decisive shift in her government's foreign policy — and putting it at odds with the United State...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- one a handful of the world's Jewish heads of state -- is calling on on Israel to end ‘genocide in Gaza.’

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The Supreme Court today upheld the legality of immigration raids based solely on a person's race or profession, like the one on a car wash in Los Angeles that swept up Jesús Cruz, a migrant who had lived in the US for three decades, had four American kids and no criminal record.

An ICE raid breaks a family — and prompts a wrenching decision He came to Los Angeles 33 years ago. Now a man sent back to Mexico and his wife faced an impossible decision. Should she and their U.S. children join him in Mexico? Or stay in Inglewood?

The aftermath of an ICE raid.

I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S.

He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA?

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This Mexican city had one of the world's highest homicide rates — so it fired most of its police Mexico once vowed to reform its police. That has been abandoned as the country deploys soldiers to fight cartels.

For decades, Mexican authorities promised to reform the country's notoriously corrupt cops.

But that's largely been abandoned in favor of militarization.

I wrote about what it means when there are more soldiers than police deployed across a country.

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CPAC of the left?

In Mexico, leftists and progressives from a dozen countries are convening this week to strategize about how to win elections and combat a well-organized and increasingly global far right.

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'Hell on earth.' A Venezuelan deportee describes abuse in El Salvador prison A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts his months in custody, recalling meager rations and the torture and beating ...

Jerce Reyes Barrios, a U.S. deportee, told The Times he was haunted by his experience in the Salvadoran prison, where he was repeatedly beaten, forced to drink contaminated water and subjected to other horrors.

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