ORLANDO, Fla. -- For the umpteenth time, a horrific mass shooting on U.S. soil united people around the world in solemn vigils.

In tribute to the reported 50 dead...

• At least 50 are dead and 53 injured. The gunman was killed by police

• The FBI had questioned the shooter twice, but he still legally obtained guns

• U.S. officials have said there is no evidence of a direct link to ISIS

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The Department of Homeland Security and private contractor Serco, Inc. are in talks with local authorities to create a family immigrant detention center in Southern Texas, even as state and federal authorities struggle with litigation over two similar institutions in the state.

A group of Latino leaders on Wednesday expressed their disgust with Donald Trump’s controversial comments about federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel and called on the presumptive Republican nominee to apologize.   

Representatives from leading Latino rights groups and Hispanic legal organizations told reporters on a conference...

A Texas state judge issued a temporary injunction Wednesday to keep a controversial family detention center from obtaining a license to run as a child-care facility.

The ruling, issued orally at a hearing in Austin, marked a victory for detainees and immigrant rights advocates who contend that the...

WASHINGTON -- A Mexican diplomat condemned his government’s human rights failings Wednesday, but cautioned that just because someone is tortured doesn’t mean that person is innocent.

Speaking at a panel at the Wilson Center, Mexico’s ambassador to the Organization of American States, Luis Alfonso de Alba, acknowledged that the investigation...

After just one week in office, Brazil’s unelected, interim President Michel Temer has begun hacking away at three decades of social progress, fielding a leadership team composed entirely of 21 white men -- including a congressman under investigation for attempted homicide -- to take the reins of a...

When the Texas State Board of Education voted two years ago to create instructional materials for Mexican-American studies, educators and activists walked away cheering. They had asked the SBOE to create a full Mexican-American studies class, citing research showing that it would help boost performance in the...

With his brash rhetoric and hypernationalist platform, Donald Trump at times seems like a gift to activists looking for a boogeyman to rally the immigrant community.

But it's not clear if Trump is actually serving that role, according to naturalization data. 

The...

Immigration authorities tried unsuccessfully on Tuesday to get permission to force-feed a man on a 3-week hunger strike at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

In a case that once again shines a spotlight on the isolated facility where a major protest broke out...

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his house in Springfield, Illinois, in 2012, Colombian-born Jhon Erick Ocampo struggled to explain to them that he was an American citizen.

He’d tried three times over the last decade to obtain his...

Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera defended presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump on Friday, claiming in a column that the real estate mogul does “not have a racist bone in his body.”

“He is a down-to-earth, all around good guy,” he contends.  

A woman locked in a Texas immigrant detention center is alleging that her 12-year-old daughter was sexually abused by another detainee there last month.

The charges, contained in an affidavit obtained by The Huffington Post and submitted to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, surfaced...

As evidence mounts that the Mexican government has mishandled the investigation into its most prominent human rights case, over 100 people remain in prison, waiting to see how the story plays out. 

Journalists, forensic scientists and independent observers have refuted many of the key points...

Two undocumented immigrants locked in Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia are refusing food, authorities said Thursday.

The protest, described as a hunger strike by an immigration attorney, comes a few months after a major disturbance at the for-profit detention center, which contracts with Immigration and...

HAVANA -- Francisco Jesús Jiménez misses a lot of things about the United States. He misses his five kids. He misses his car. He misses his phone. He misses walking the streets of his old neighborhood in Flatbush, Brooklyn -- “better known as Crooklyn,” he says -- where...

Since launching his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination last summer, self-described expert dealmaker Donald Trump has insisted he would build a "great, great wall" along the U.S. southern border and force Mexico to pay for it.

He finally explained in a two-page memo published...

HAVANA -- After delivering a major speech aimed at the people of Cuba on Tuesday morning, U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to hold a meeting with members of the island’s civil society, including prominent opposition activists.

Both the speech and the meeting will be closely followed...

HAVANA -- Shortly before President Barack Obama became the first U.S. head of state to set foot on Cuban soil in nearly nine decades, police here detained several dozen civil rights activists during a peaceful march Sunday, after government supporters accused them of acting as U.S.-paid mercenaries.