Venezuela

As Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife reportedly head to the U.S. to face charges, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are lining up over whether the military action and the arrests of the Maduros are legal. That includes here in Alabama.

Alabama Republican Congressman Mike Rogers is scheduled to speak with Vice Admiral Frank Bradley in a classified briefing. At issue is a second attack against an alleged Venezuelan drug boat. Rogers says he spoke with Secretary Pete Hegseth and was satisfied. But, the fact that the Chairman wants to hear from Admiral Bradley, and questions being asked by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, appears to be raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill.

Gov. Kay Ivey is leading a letter with 24 other governors, expressing concern over the Biden-Harris Administration’s Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) asylum program. This comes as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate began promoting debunked misinformation about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, causing crime and “eating pets."

In this StoryCorps piece, nine-year-old Juan Mario talks to his mom and dad about their childhoods in Venezuela and Mexico and learns about the…

Juan Torres and his wife are immigrants from Mexico and Venezuela, respectively, who now live in Mobile, Alabama. They sat down at StoryCorps and gave…