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Tim Padgett

Miami

Americas Editor at WLRN-FM (Miami, FL)

Americas Editor, WLRN

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  • 3 days ago | wlrn.org | Tim Padgett

    After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last Friday that the Trump administration can, for now, end humanitarian parole for half a million migrants, immigration advocates insist the legal battle is not over — and believe it will end sooner than later, now in their favor.

  • 1 week ago | wlrn.org | Tim Padgett

    Haiti’s gangs are so powerful now that officials are reportedly hiring foreign mercenaries to fight them — while at the same time, some influential Caribbean leaders are advising conversation instead of confrontation. Gangs today control 90 percent of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and it's believed the city will fall completely to those criminal groups this year.

  • 1 week ago | wlrn.org | Tim Padgett

    COMMENTARY It's easy to imagine President Trump adopting the gaslighting warfare used by Venezuela's dictator in Guyana to further his own hemispheric expansion schemes from Panama to Greenland. We know that President Trump — according to advisers during his first presidency — admires dictators.

  • 2 weeks ago | wlrn.org | Tim Padgett

    Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This week’s arrest of a leading human rights activist in El Salvador has cast authoritarian President Nayib Bukele — one of President Trump’s favorite Latin American leaders — in a darker dictatorial light, critics say. Ruth López, who heads the anti-corruption and justice unit at Cristosal, a prominent Central American human rights nonprofit, was arrested Sunday night.

  • 2 weeks ago | communitynewspapers.com | Tim Padgett

    COMMENTARY Venezuelans and other migrant groups see leaders like Marco Rubio no longer have their backs — because today, boosting deportations matters more than bolstering democracy. When Donald Trump launched his political comeback in late 2023 by declaring immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” I tried to warn migrant communities such as Venezuelans that he meant them, too.

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Tim Padgett
Tim Padgett @TimPadgett2
9 May 25

If Trump wants the courts to buy his deportation crusade, maybe he shouldn't admit every country he wants to deport migrants back to is a human rights hellhole. Judges are contradicting him because he's contradicting himself. My @WLRN commentary.https://t.co/AtpnkCIoJk

Tim Padgett
Tim Padgett @TimPadgett2
8 May 25

If Trump wants the courts to buy his deportation crusade, maybe he shouldn't admit every country he wants to deport migrants back to is a human rights hell-hole. Judges are contradicting him because he's contradicting himself. My @WLRN commentary.https://t.co/AtpnkCIoJk

Tim Padgett
Tim Padgett @TimPadgett2
8 May 25

If Trump wants the courts to buy his deportation crusade, maybe he shouldn't admit every country he wants to deport migrants back to is a human rights hell hole. Judges are contradicting him because he's contradicting himself. My @WLRN commentary.https://t.co/AtpnkCIoJk