Honduras

Florida House Democrats in Tallahassee are demanding answers from the state Department of Children and Families over its role in handing over a foster child from Honduras to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The boy, Henry, is a suspected undocumented immigrant.

Experts believe the self-deportation offer will only appeal to a small portion of migrants already considering return, but unlikely to spur high demand.

The toddler, a U.S. citizen, was apparently sent to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister, even as a federal judge tried to contact an attorney representing the government.

Josue Aguilar came to South Florida as a minor fleeing gang violence in Honduras. Now he faces deportation despite his marriage to a U.S. citizen, their toddler son, a good taxpaying job and a clean criminal record after being taken from his immigration hearing to the notorious Krome Detention Center.

President Trump says U.S. foreign aid "doesn't align" with his America First agenda. But in Latin America, data suggest it delivers for his big priority: reducing illegal immigration. It's also a pro-democracy force in the region — and diplomats fear its retreat there further benefits China.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office in January with a promise of carrying out mass deportations, leaving Honduras and other Central American countries bracing for a potential influx of vulnerable migrants — a situation they are ill-prepared to handle.

An incriminating admission by the brother-in-law of Honduras’ president just days after the Central American nation announced it would end its longstanding extradition treaty with the United States is feeding fears among Hondurans that the country’s legacy of corruption is continuing.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been convicted in New York of conspiring with drug traffickers, his military and police to enable tons of cocaine to reach the United States.

Mayor Suyapa Jaqueline Trejo wanted music education for the youth of Macuelizo and a better quality of life for her town. Her municipality was strapped for cash. So she came up with a novel idea.

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there.

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador.

An official says that gang members inside a Honduran women’s prison slaughtered 46 other women inmates with gunfire and machetes and flammable liquid. President Xiomara Castro called it “monstrous.”