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Federal agents detained 121 people in an August 30 raid on a Memphis bar; several Hondurans have already been deported while community groups say eight others remain unaccounted for, and four were released at the scene after proving their immigration status.

Honduras's ambassador to Washington will meet a U.S. Department of Homeland Security official on September 3 to propose alternatives for TPS beneficiaries facing expiration, including legal aid, temporary work authorizations, and orderly returns for those unable to regularize their status.

José Eliezer Martínez, a Honduran with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and deferred action, was deported in April after authorities allegedly pressured him to accept removal despite his legal protections; he was ordered back to the U.S. on August 5 but remains in Border Patrol custody in Texas with his case unresolved.

Honduras's Foreign Ministry published a practical guide for Hondurans affected by the expiration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States, covering legal options, document preservation, work authorization alternatives, and warnings against immigration fraud.

A US immigration appeals ruling means Hondurans with TPS, DACA, or pending asylum who leave the US — even with an authorized travel permit — could face a three- to ten-year bar on re-entry if they accumulated over 180 days of unlawful presence, advocates warn.

Brayan Omar Sánchez Servellón, a Honduran man held in immigration detention in Texas, was reportedly deported to Senegal, where he told family members he suffered abuse during the transfer, though neither U.S. nor Honduran authorities have confirmed the case.

A federal judge in Boston on July 21 suspended new restrictions on work authorization for asylum seekers and some TPS beneficiaries, though Honduras's TPS cancellation remains in effect.

With Honduras's TPS formally ended and the U.S. Supreme Court removing the last legal obstacles in June, Hondurans who did not secure another immigration status have lost work authorization and risk deportation, while the roughly 21,000 who obtained permanent residency by April 2025 remain protected.

Over 56,300 Hondurans applied for Spain's extraordinary regularization program that closed June 30, making them the fifth-largest nationality group after Colombians, Moroccans, Venezuelans, and Peruvians, with decisions expected within three months.

A federal judge in Michigan sentenced Honduran national Wilmer Rodríguez, 39, to nearly four years in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation, following a prior state conviction for first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping, and firearms offenses.

A federal judge has postponed sentencing former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan indefinitely to consider overturning her obstruction-of-justice conviction, which stemmed from her alleged role in helping a Honduran immigrant evade federal agents — a conviction her defense says rested on a legal theory since invalidated by an appeals court.

A new Trump administration policy bars migrants already in the United States from adjusting their immigration status domestically, forcing them to return to their home countries to apply for permanent residency at consulates—a change affecting more than half a million people annually, according to immigration experts.