Nicole Acevedo
Staff Reporter at NBC News
Staff Reporter at NBC News Latino
Journalist bilingüe 🇵🇷 | @nbcnews reporter | ✍🏼 about Latinos for @nbclatino | Proud @NAHJ | @newmarkjschool ‘17 and @NewhouseSU ‘16 🍊 alumna
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1 day ago |
nbcnews.com | Nicole Acevedo |Erick Mendoza
May 13, 2025, 6:40 PM EDTA federal investigation into a state program providing monthly cash benefits to elderly and disabled noncitizens legally present in the U.S. is raising alarms among immigrant rights groups in California, who say the probe unfairly attacks the community's "most vulnerable people" at a time when immigration authorities are working to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promise of mass deportations.
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2 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Nicole Acevedo |Alexander Murray Smith |Stephanie Gosk |Daniella Silva
CHICAGO — As the first pope from the United States and a dual citizen of America and Peru, Pope Leo XIV — a native of the Windy City — is emerging as a symbol of hope for those seeking a more compassionate approach to immigration, standing in sharp contrast to President Donald Trump’s divisive policies.
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5 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Nicole Acevedo |Daniella Silva |Corky Siemaszko
DOLTON, Ill. — The newest Roman Catholic shrine in America has three bedrooms, two baths, a finished basement and used to be the home of newly elected Pope Leo XIV. A day after the Vatican shocked the world by electing Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal who spent most of his career in Peru, to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, pilgrims have started trickling to the brick bungalow on East 141st Place in suburban Dolton to see where he grew up.
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5 days ago |
yahoo.com | Nicole Acevedo
DOLTON, Ill. — The newest Roman Catholic shrine in America has three bedrooms, two baths, a finished basement and used to be the home of newly elected Pope Leo XIV. A day after the Vatican shocked the world by electing Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal who spent most of his career in Peru, to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, pilgrims have started trickling to the brick bungalow on East 141st Place in suburban Dolton to see where he grew up.
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5 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Nicole Acevedo |Anthony Cusumano |Suzanne Gamboa |Carmen Sesin
A girl recovering from a rare brain tumor celebrated her 11th birthday on Sunday, hundreds of miles away from everything she's known — her friends at school, her community at church, her home. She's one of four U.S. citizen children who were sent to Mexico from Texas three months ago when immigration authorities deported their undocumented parents.
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Witnessing history in Chicago, where the first American pope is from. Check out that reporting here in my latest story for @NBCNews, collaborating with @DaniellaLSilva and @csiemaszko in NYC: https://t.co/JYYiGYJxcG
First reported on this case in March. Today this deported family of a 🇺🇸citizen girl recovering from rare brain tumor is determined to return under humanitarian parole, meeting w/ members of the @HispanicCaucus in 🇲🇽 to garner support. More in my latest:https://t.co/Z9AeBHiOwb
U.S.-citizen family 'traumatized' after ICE raided their Oklahoma home in search of someone else More in my latest for @NBCNews ⬇️ https://t.co/mpY4wMFKwj
