7 h. ago Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk will stay in ICE detention in Louisiana

Trump administration lawyers are trying to block court order to transfer Turkish international student to Vermont

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4 d. ago Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails

Rodney Taylor, whose legs were amputated as a toddler, just one of many people with disabilities at risk from detentionIn his three months locked up at Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Rodney Taylor has missed meals and showers, lived with increasing pain in his hips, developed a swollen thumb on his right hand and blisters on the stumps where his two legs were amputated when he was a toddler.Taylor’s mother brought him to the US from Liberia on a medical visa as a small child. He went through 16 operations and is a double amputee. He has two fingers on his right hand. Now 46, he has lived in the US nearly his entire life, works as a barber, is active in promoting cancer awareness in his community, and recently got engaged. Continue reading...

Events

6 d. ago ‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Delegation visits jails where Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ TrumpCongressional lawmakers denounced the treatment of Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, the students being detained by US immigration authorities for their pro-Palestinian activism, as a “national disgrace” during a visit to the two facilities in Louisiana where each are being held.“We stand firm with them in support of free speech,” the Louisiana congressman Troy Carter, who led the delegation, said during a press conference after the visits on Tuesday. “They are frightened, they’re concerned, they want to go home.” Continue reading...

Society

2 w. ago Why Trump is jailing student activists in Louisiana, where thousands of immigrants are detained in private prisons

Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands of miles from home, lawyers and advocates tell Alex Woodward

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2 w. ago They fled Putin’s Russia for the US. After Ice detention, they’re choosing to leave again

Sergei and Marina were building a new life in California after protesting the Ukraine war. But Sergei was arrested during a routine check-in – and everything has changedSergei and Marina escaped Russia three years ago under threat of arrest after protesting against the Ukraine war, seeking asylum in the US. Now their best chance of remaining together, as a family, is to flee again.In a whirlwind three weeks, the couple’s plans to rebuild their lives in the US were abruptly upended. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago They married in an ICE detention center. Now they’re fighting Trump after Maryland dad was wrongfully deported to El Salvador

The Supreme Court could decide the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after the Trump administration refused to return the Maryland father deported in ‘error.’ Alex Woodward reports

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3 w. ago US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro

Newsrooms forced to adapt as writers resign and request takedown of stories to avoid potential repercussionsFearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement.Editors at university newspapers say that anxiety among writers has risen since the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention fighting efforts to deport her. While the government has not pointed to evidence supporting its decision to revoke her visa, she wrote an op-ed last year in a student newspaper critical of Israel, spurring fears that simply expressing views in writing is now viewed as sufficient grounds for deportation. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Tufts PhD student scores legal win against Trump administration as her case moves to Vermont court

Federal judge denies Justice Department’s request to throw out Rumeysa Ozturk’s challenge to her arrest

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3 w. ago Man who escaped ICE detention in power outage gets caught on a Denver bus

Immigration authorities say the second of two men who escaped from a Colorado immigration detention center during a power outage last month has been arrested

Events

4 w. ago The Western tourists locked up by US border guards: Travellers describe spending weeks in 'insane, psychological, social experiment' detention centres under Trump immigration crackdown

Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney described ICE detention as spending weeks in an 'insane psychological, social experiment'.

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