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Highly publicized immigration raids have rattled the community and prompted lawmakers to push for more laws protecting ...

A copy of V.M.L.'s birth certificate included in court filings shows she was born in Baton Rouge in 2023. Her mother and father were born in Santa Bárbara, Honduras, according to court records.

Vacated construction sites, rapid protest organizing, and confusion — the immigration raid in Tallahassee this week hit close ...

Highly publicized immigration raids have rattled the community and prompted lawmakers to push for more laws protecting ...

including his passport and birth certificate from Honduras. "They've told him they will not fix it, and if by chance he was deported, he would go to Mexico to a place where he knows no one and ...

The Port of Galveston could break passenger records again this year with a new port and cruise offerings. Here's what's coming.

Vacated construction sites, rapid protest organizing, and confusion — the immigration raid in Tallahassee this week hit close ...

Activists are celebrating a decision by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court to allow nonbinary and gender nonconforming people to update their birth certificates.

Birth certificate orders in Cowlitz County are up 65% compared to last year, county Health and Human Services Director Carole Harrison reported Tuesday. The increase is not due to a jump in births ...