U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) chose not to honor a request for an immigration detainer after Omaha police arrested illegal alien Eswin Mejia after he struck and killed 21-year-old Sarah Root while driving drunk and street-racing the night of January 31. Mejia vanished shortly after posting bond.
Prosecutors say Honduran illegal alien Jose Amaya-Vasquez, 30, kidnapped his ex-girlfriend and her two-year-old child at knifepoint in May, dragging her from Missouri to New Jersey while raping her repeatedly.
New Orleans authorities are searching for what local media illuminatingly call a “man”—27-year-old Honduran immigrant Gerson Rodriguez, wanted for raping a 4-year-old.
On October 7, the US Justice Department released a statement saying that one of Honduras’ most powerful businessmen and two of his family members have been indicted for allegedly laundering money for drug traffickers. Seven businesses were also labeled “specially designated narcotics traffickers” under the Kingpin Act.
The government of Honduras is facing unprecedented numbers of Cuban refugees who opt to reach its shores on makeshift maritime vessels, hoping to cross north towards the United States. Honduras has apprehended 5,000 Cuban nationals so far this year, 3,000 more than the entirety of 2014.
Nelson Ochoa-Puentes, a 33-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, allegedly pulled a gun on a cop after fleeing from a traffic stop on Monday.
There are demonstrations in Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico. Ex-presidents in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua are being investigated for corruption.
U.S.-China diplomacy over South China Sea turns vitriolic; 400 die as illegal migrants flood into Italy from Libya; Illegal immigration from Mexico down sharply, but not for lack of trying
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has begged for an end to the “horrible crime” of femicide in Honduras, a country that is suffering from a veritable epidemic of violent crimes against women in the last decade.
In a move that some are describing as purely symbolic, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a preliminary investigation into war crimes committed by Israel during the summer 2014 Gaza war.
