Earlier this year, the White House falsely claimed that millions of US taxpayers’ dollars were funding “sex changes” in Guatemala — a lie used to justify gutting USAID, which has provided aid ...

D. Esperanza is 14 years old. After traveling with his cousins from Honduras, he is held in the horrors of U.S. detention in Texas. For five months, while there, D. kept a journal of poems, drawings.

Shannon Heffernan’s work focuses on prisons and jails across the U.S., sexual and gender-based violence, immigration and ...

“The hunting of Latinos.” That’s how the mayor of Los Angeles described the last few months of increasingly violent immigration raids. They’re the brainchild of a Border Patrol chief who went rogue.

A collage of girlhood and grit. Born and raised in Stockton, California, 15-year-old Faith Gomez is starting to make a name for herself in the amateur boxing world. A Latina with no big sponsors or ...

Editor’s Note: This podcast episode was produced by Latino USA and co-published in partnership with El Faro English. On a hot San Salvador day, Teodora Vázquez called 911 for an ambulance. She was ...

Activist and organizer Cristina Jiménez, co-founder of United We Dream, joins Maria Hinojosa on Latino USA. Listen in on the conversation, as Cristina reflects on growing up undocumented in Queens, ...

The Trump administration is facing more than 300 legal challenges, many of which are being litigated by the American Civil Liberties Union led by Anthony Romero. The executive director and the longest ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first episode in a special three-episode collaboration with Imperfect Paradise. During a flurry of election-related anxiety, Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido ...

As a Zapotec and Maya Ch’orti’ environmental scientist, Dr. Jessica Hernandez has never felt entirely comfortable in academia. When she started college, she looked forward to sharing what she had ...