Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

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National correspondent at National Public Radio (NPR) covering immigration. Soy de Carolina y vengo vira’o 🇵🇷. Tips? smartinezbeltran@npr.org; Signal: sergiomarbel.11

NEW: Here is the alleged video from Jonathan Ross's cell phone synched with the main eyewitness video we've all seen. As you can see it synchs perfectly. I don't think any internal cuts were made. I have left audio for both videos in this synch so that you can hear them aligned.

Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, a victim of the shooting at the Dallas ICE facility, continues to be in critical condition. His wife is 39 weeks pregnant. It’s a boy. “What if he never even gets to meet him?” She wants the world to know her husband: www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

'I want his name to be known:' Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

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Mayra, a migrant from Nicaragua, was inside the Dallas ICE facility this morning for her immigration check in. Around 6:20 a.m. local time, she says she heard about 20 gunshots, and that at times she could feel the bullets hitting the building. www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

Shooting at ICE detention facility in Dallas kills 2 detainees, injures 1 other

Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting Wednesday at a federal immigration detention facility in Dallas. Two detainees were killed in what the FBI says was an act "of targeted violence."

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Federal judge says TPS holders from Honduras, Nicaragua & Nepal want liberty & the American dream, but "Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood.” She delayed TPS expiration for those countries. www.npr.org/2025/07/31/n...

Federal judge delays expiration of TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans, and Nepalese

The Trump administration has said the conditions in the three countries have improved, therefore the immigrants can return back to their homelands. But federal Judge Trina Thompson suggested Trump's m...

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NEW: As of 9am CT, the death toll in Kerr County is 59 due to the flooding in Texas’ Hill Country. Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said that includes 38 adults and 21 children. 11 Camp Mystic campers are unaccounted for. 8 people have died in nearby counties due to floods.

JUST IN: Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that the more than 130 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the next pope should be.

Black smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel as cardinals cast an unsuccessful first vote

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that the more than 130 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the next pope should be.

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President Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR. “It’s the latest move by Trump and his administration to utilize federal powers to control or hamstring institutions whose actions or viewpoints he disagrees with.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.

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Yasmelin Velazquez has waited 10 months for her first immigration court date. But a last-minute hospitalization has led to more anxiety — missing her court date could be bad news. This is a day in the life of one migrant seeking to stay in the U.S.: www.npr.org/2025/04/14/g...

A day in the life of one migrant seeking to stay in the U.S.

Yasmelin Velazquez has waited 10 months for her immigration court date. But a last-minute hospitalization and confusion over Trump's changing immigration policies lead to more hurdles and anxiety.

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Y. was working her regular shift at a California Walmart on Monday when she got an email from DHS. "It is time for you to leave the United States," the email began as part of Trump's push to revoke temporary legal status for some migrants. www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g...

Migrants who entered the U.S. via CBP One app should leave 'immediately,' DHS says

DHS is telling some migrants who entered the U.S. using the CBP One app to leave immediately, part of a broader push to revoke temporary legal protections known as humanitarian parole.

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NEW: 4th Circuit Court of Appeals denies Trump administration's motion to stay judge decision ordering the gov to return Kilmar Abrego García to the U.S., the Maryland man deported to El Salvador due to clerical error. Deadline of 11:59 p.m. remains. Background: www.npr.org/2025/04/04/n...

Judge orders the Trump administration to return man who was mistakenly deported

A federal judge in Maryland Friday ordered the Trump administration to take immediate steps to return a Maryland man who was deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison by mistake, setting up another high-st...

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Josue Basto is one of the migrants sent to El Salvador. His sister says Basto's record is clean and that he was targeted for his tattoos, which include a clock marking the time of his son's birth. The Trump administration says he's Tren de Aragua. www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

Advocates say flawed 'checklist' targets Venezuelans for deportation under archaic wartime act

Flawed deportation 'checklist' targets Venezuelans using tattoos as one gang identifier. But experts say Tren de Aragua doesn't use tattoos for member identification.

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