17 h. ago Blame migrants, or blame the rich? That’s the populist divide in Britain’s politics now | Gaby Hinsliff

Taxing the ultra-rich may be a vote winner, but it’s just as important to shift the conversation away from Reform’s immigration doom loopThe long, hot summer of discontent is finally over. Parliament returned this week if not exactly with a rush of back to school energy, then at least with the sense that the government is now back to fill what was becoming an increasingly dangerous August vacuum.When exhausted ministers retreated to lick their wounds over the summer, Nigel Farage saw his chance and took it, filling the slow news days with encouragement of protesters over asylum seeker accommodation. He was rewarded by polling showing voters now see immigration – the terrain on which Reform UK is palpably desperate to fight an election, because it’s terrain on which Labour can never go far enough to please some supporters without horrifying half the rest – and not a broken economy as Britain’s biggest problem, an impression arguably only reinforced when the government’s first announc...

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6 d. ago A deadly Florida truck crash has fueled an immigration fight. Here's what to know

A truck driver's deadly U-turn on a Florida highway has sparked national debate over immigration, trucking safety, and federal funding

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8 d. ago Over 2.5 million people sign petition in support of truck driver Harjinder Singh after fatal Florida crash

Supporters urge Florida officials to grant clemency to the 28-year-old truck driver, insisting the crash was a ‘tragic accident’, not a ‘deliberate act’

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1 week ago Fatal Florida crash fuels immigration fight between DeSantis and Newsom

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida

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1 week ago Kayle Bates who kidnapped and killed office worker is executed

Kayle Bates has been on death row for more than four decades - and was finally given a fatal injection on Tuesday, becoming Florida's record 10th execution this year

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3 w. ago Mum of boy, 14, killed in crash slams 'disgusting' dad who had seizure at the wheel

Devastating CCTV captured the moments before a cocaine-fuelled driver sparked a horror crash on the M6 - killing his 14-year-old son.

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last month The US immigration system is being militarized. Now is the time to stand up | Kica Matos

Trump’s budget bill is turbocharging an already brutal enforcement operation. We must meet the momentOn the Fourth of July, President Trump signed his sweeping signature domestic policy bill into law. He called it “beautiful”. I would call it a grave and existential threat to our already precarious democracy.Perhaps the biggest headline to emerge from this bill is that it tears giant holes into our social safety net to ensure our nation’s wealthiest could benefit from additional tax breaks. But for those of us on the frontlines of the fight to protect immigrants’ rights, it signaled the further entrenchment of an authoritarian regime being created on the backs of immigrants. Irrespective of our immigration status or views on immigration, we should all be concerned because we will all be affected: the sheer quantity of resources set aside for immigration enforcement will turbocharge the militarization of our country.Kica Matos is president of the National Immigration Law Center Conti...

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