3 h. ago Journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador after 100 days in Ice custody

Removal comes after Emmy-winning Salvadorian reporter was arrested while covering ‘No Kings Day’ protestJournalist Mario Guevara’s imprisonment by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) ended with deportation to El Salvador on Friday, his family announced on social media.Guevara has been a media mainstay in the Atlanta area for about 20 years, after fleeing El Salvador to escape leftwing militias in 2004. Though he has a work permit and two of his children are American citizens, he has operated under the “administrative closure” of deportation orders for much of that time. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘It’s hard to know what day it is’: families tell of grim Ice detention in Texas

Anxiety high as parents and children tell of lack of clean water, inadequate medical care and poor food in ‘prison-like’ conditionsAt the South Texas Family Residential Center, guards allegedly refer to detained immigrant families as “inmates”, spouses aren’t allowed to hold hands, and children don’t know where they can kick around a ball without getting in trouble, according to a stark court filing.Yet those are minor indignities compared with accounts given to outside monitors of a lack of clean drinking water, sleep, healthy food, privacy, hygiene supplies and appropriate healthcare. Alongside government admissions of what attorneys called “prolonged unexplained detention” at the facility in the remote town of Dilley, Texas anxiety levels for detainees are high. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Dallas Ice shooting suspect engaged in ‘high degree of planning’, FBI says

Kash Patel says alleged gunman downloaded document on Dallas homeland security facilities and searched ballisticsThe FBI said on Thursday that the suspect in the shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in Texas the day before had engaged in a “high degree of planning” before the attack.The FBI director, Kash Patel, said in a post on X that the alleged perpetrator downloaded a document titled “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management” containing a list of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities. Continue reading...

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1 week ago China's Arctic shortcut to Britain: Beijing sends 965ft container ship through melting Northeast passage halving 40

The Istanbul Bridge, a Chinese-owned container ship, will on Wednesday set sail from Ningbo-Zhoushan port, the world's largest, to Felixstowe, east Suffolk.

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1 week ago China's Arctic shortcut to Britain: Beijing sends 965ft container ship through melting Northeast passage more than halving 40

The Istanbul Bridge, a Chinese-owned container ship, will on Wednesday set sail from Ningbo-Zhoushan port, the world's largest, to Felixstowe, east Suffolk.

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1 week ago US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice

Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petitionThe imprisoned journalist Mario Guevara is facing imminent deportation after an immigration appeals court closed the case and ordered his removal.Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) say the El Salvador native could be put on a plane at any moment, despite an immigration judge’s initial order to grant his release on bond and a clear legal path to residency. His attorney said they were filing an emergency petition seeking relief. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dad threatened by ICE deportation days after being shot during robbery

The police in Muscatine, Iowa had his car and the cash he was carrying when he was shot and nearly killed

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3 w. ago ‘Chipocalypse Now’: Trump threatens Chicago with ‘Department of War’ and suggests ICE raids imminent

‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning ’ Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,’ Trump’s TruthSocial post read

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3 w. ago ICE operations expected to begin in Chicago on Saturday as Mexican Independence Day celebrations are canceled

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker warned communities that he believes ICE was coordinating raids in tandem with Mexican Independence Day celebrations in the city

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3 w. ago I went to retro Scots seaside town with famous ice cream shop — it's a brilliant day out

Many of us may have grown up visiting this pretty Scottish coastal town - and it's just as charming even when the weather turns.

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