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Arelis R. Hernández primarily covers evolving and breaking news stories related to government, politics, crime, as well as immigration issues in the United States with a focus on Texas and Puerto Rico. She often reports on high-profile legal cases and their implications.
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By: Elana Gordon, Laura Benshoff, Reena Flores, Arelis R. Hernández, Christine Armario, Sean Carter
The Trump administration is sending Border Patrol agents right into the heart of some of America’s biggest cities. We investigate how their tactics are shaping immigration operations from Los Angeles to Chicago to, as of this week, New Orleans.
By: Arelis R. Hernández
DHS issued a policy blocking migrants from having bond hearings. But immigration attorneys are starting to win cases in which judges call the detentions illegal.
By: Arelis R. Hernández
The Trump administrations move to overturn years of legal precedent and require mandatory detention for all immigrants facing deportation has sparked
By: Maria Sacchetti, Arelis R. Hernández, Andrew Jeong
President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of the U.S. green-card lottery program on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said. The decision comes after authorities said the suspected gunman in the recent shootings at Brown University and the home of an MIT professor used the system to enter the United States.
By: Arelis R. Hernández
After the Border Patrol arrived in Louisiana, a couple and their five children went into hiding. That meant less food, few outings and no lights on the Christmas tree.
By: María Luisa Paúl, Arelis R. Hernández, David Ovalle
Venezuelans in the Miami suburb of Doral took to the streets in celebration after learning that the U.S. had struck their homeland and removed Nicolás Maduro.
By: Jake Spring, Arelis R. Hernández, Thomas Simonetti, John Muyskens
The aggressive pace of expansion has alarmed advocates who say the construction will destroy pristine country, threaten endangered species, and cut off access to sacred Indigenous and archaeological sites.
By: Arelis R. Hernández
The teens from the Republic of Congo did not know their visas had been canceled when they switched schools. Their neighbors in Mississippi rallied around them.
By: Reshma Kirpalani, Marianne Levine, Arelis R. Hernández, Emmanuel
A rising share of those removed are men who had lived in the U.S. for several years. Women are bearing the brunt of having to sustain families in their absence.
By: Arelis R. Hernández
Christian Castro is the first of two agents charged by local prosecutors to be taken into custody.
