16 h. ago Judge temporarily blocks NYC mayor from allowing ICE agents on Rikers Island jail

A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt discussions with the Trump administration allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex

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60 h. ago Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa

Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026An Indonesian father of an infant with special needs, who was detained by federal agents at his hospital workplace in Minnesota after his student visa was secretly revoked, will remain in custody after an immigration judge ruled Thursday that his case can proceed.Judge Sarah Mazzie denied a motion to dismiss the case against Aditya Wahyu Harsono on humanitarian grounds, according to his attorney. Harsono, 33, was arrested four days after his visa was revoked without notice. He is scheduled for another hearing on 1 May. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Judge orders Tufts University student in detention case to be brought to Vermont

A federal judge has ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by immigration authorities in March to be brought to Vermont

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3 d. ago ICE agents admitted they were arresting ‘the wrong guy’ on NYC street — they deported him anyway

Merwil Gutierrez was deported from The Bronx to brutal El Salvador prison, according to family and attorney

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4 d. ago Colombian national ‘broke ICE agent’s nose’ during attempted arrest in New Jersey

The Justice Department claimed the ICE agent received a concussion and has been “fainting” and suffering from “shortness of breath” since having her nose broken

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5 d. ago Family says ICE agents smashed car window to take man seeking asylum

The family and their legal representation are now demanding answers

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5 d. ago Mum records moment immigration agents smash car window before dragging husband away

Marilu Mendez says ICE agents surrounded her car on Monday, smashed the window and dragged her and husband Juan Mendez out of the vehicle

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5 d. ago Family says ICE agents smashed car window in seizing Guatemalan man who's seeking asylum

A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, complaining its agents smashed a car window and detained a man who was in the process of applying for aslyum

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6 d. ago Federal judge drops contempt case against ICE agent over arrest outside Boston courthouse

A federal judge has dismissed a contempt case against an ICE agent whose arrest of man during his trial sparked criticism among the law enforcement community in Boston

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7 d. ago ‘We are the victims’: College student detained in Denmark after Uber brawl breaks silence

Owen Ray, 19, and his friend are now stranded in Denmark after having their passports seized following an alleged Uber brawl earlier this month

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7 d. ago Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian green card holder and Columbia student, detained by Ice

Mahdawi was at a naturalization interview in Vermont when he was taken in move his lawyers say is ‘retaliation’Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and student at Columbia University, was apprehended by US immigration authorities in Vermont on Monday, according to his lawyers and a video of the incident.Mahdawi, who was a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last spring, was arrested by Ice on Monday morning in Colchester, Vermont, while he was attending a naturalization interview, his lawyer said in a statement to the Guardian. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student's case

A federal judge in Vermont who's considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration officials has raised the idea of having her brought back to his court for a hearing

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7 d. 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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8 d. ago Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hopeRaja Shehadeh – lawyer, activist and Palestine’s greatest prose writer – has long been a voice of sanity and measure in the fraught, tendentious world of Arab-Israeli politics. His first non-academic book, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, chronicled the 2002 siege of his hometown, Ramallah, while Palestinian Walks, which won the Orwell prize, traced how Israel’s de facto occupation of the West Bank had fundamentally altered both its geography and its history. Last year, Shehadeh published What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?, his first book since the attacks of 7 October. It was a work in two parts: the first, a characteristically measured analysis of how history led us to this point; the second, a bitterly furious record of the devastation wrought upon Gaza. The overwhelming impression was of a man who, after d...

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9 d. ago ‘Gaza, it breaks my heart to see you in this state’: three stories from young Palestinian writers

Authors from the We Are Not Numbers project on their dreams of becoming architects or artists, and a report on how a young woman found fulfilment in fast foodAhmed Alnaouq: ‘It’s our duty that we make Gaza’s stories immortal, on paper’How Gaza inspired me to be a ‘surgeon’ for historic buildings Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq: ‘It’s our duty to make Gaza’s stories immortal’

The Gaza-born, UK-based journalist, who has lost more than 20 family members in Israeli airstrikes, has taken pieces from an online platform he co-created for young Palestinians and collated them in a new book‘Gaza, it breaks my heart to see you in this state’: three stories from young Palestinian writersOn 22 October 2023, an Israeli airstrike hit Ahmed Alnaouq’s home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killing 21 members of his family, including his 75-year-old father, two brothers, three sisters and all of their children.At the time, Alnaouq was living in London, where he works as a journalist and human rights activist. “It crushed me,” he says of the attack. Unable to return home, he could only watch helplessly from afar and grieve alone. Later, he tells me that it’s not anger or hate that consumes him now, but survivor’s guilt. “All the time I think: ‘Why? Why am I alive? Why wasn’t I killed with my family?’” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? | Arwa Mahdawi

What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize itWhere do I even start? In recent weeks I’ve sat down to try and write about Gaza and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been burned alive, babies have frozen to death, medics have been executed and buried in mass graves, kids are being killed in their sleep. Meanwhile, in the US and Germany, speaking out about dead Palestinian babies can land you on a deportation list. Arguing that international human rights law should be respected can put you at risk of being snatched off the street and stuck in a detention centre.I don’t know where to start and I don’t know what is really left to say at this point. After 18 months of endless carnage, it should be clear to everyone that this is not a war. That this is not self-defence. What is happening in Gaza is, quite simply, annihilation. A litany of ...

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1 week ago I disagree with Mahmoud Khalil’s politics. But the deportation decision is abhorrent | Jo

Expelling the Columbia activist for his views would leave our nation weaker and endanger all of our rightsWhen the federal immigration judge Jamee Comans ruled in favor of allowing the government to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student in the US on a legal visa, her decision was based on “foreign policy concerns” presented by US secretary of state Marco Rubio. It was so shocking that I had to reread the news report several times before I could believe it.Rubio’s claim is based on Khalil’s leadership role in the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University. I didn’t agree with Khalil’s politics when he led the protests and I don’t agree today with his politics, nor even his actions during the protests. But I’m unwavering in supporting his right to his views, and his right to shout them in what, until Trump took the reins, was our free American nation.Jo-Ann Mort, who writes and reports frequently about Israel/Palestine is also author of the forthcoming book of poetry, ...

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1 week ago Even MAGA is sick of the ICE agent ‘cosplay’ following Kristi Noem’s ride

‘Just stop trying to glamorize the mission and put yourself in the middle of it as you cosplay ICE agent, which you’re not,’ Megyn Kelly declared this week about Kristi Noem’s ICE raid ride-along

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1 week ago IRS chief resigns after Trump administration strikes deal to share undocumented taxpayer data

‘Backroom deal’ could hand taxpayer data to ICE agents as part of Trump’s deportation blitz

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