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Christmas In Bethlehem, Honduras Election Result, Immigration Crackdown

Christmas In Bethlehem, Honduras Election Result, Immigration Crackdown

Up First from NPR
Dec 25, 2025 14 min
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<p dir="ltr">After two years of not celebrating because of the war in nearby Gaza, Christmas festivities have returned to Bethlehem. Election officials in Honduras have named the winner of the country’s presidential election, after more than three weeks of counting the votes. And, in a year of record breaking immigration enforcement, deportations and detentions are separating families and in some cases that means the oldest children become the family breadwinner.<p dir="ltr"><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? <a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a> to the Up First newsletter.</em><p dir="ltr">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by James Hider, Didi Schanche, Eric Westervelt and Lisa Thomson.<br/><br/>It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Zo van Ginhoven. Our technical director is David Greenburg.<br><p dir="ltr">And our deputy Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens.<br/><br/>(00:00) Introduction<br>(03:11) Christmas In Bethlehem<br>(06:58) Honduras Election Result<br>(10:40) Immigration Crackdown<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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