10 h. ago Women deported with US citizen kids denied chance to transfer custody, says lawyer

Mothers and kids held in ‘complete isolation’ and unable to coordinate childcare before being put on flight to HondurasTwo women who were deported to Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them.The mothers were unable to contact attorneys or loved ones, and were not allowed the option to transfer the custody of their citizen children to another parent or caregiver, said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project who is representing one of the families and coordinating with the team representing the other family. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Mothers deported by Trump ‘denied’ chance to transfer custody of children, lawyer says

Two women and their children, who are US citizens, held in ‘complete isolation’ before being put on flight to HondurasTwo women who were deported to Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them.The mothers were unable to contact attorneys or loved ones, and were not allowed the option to transfer the custody of their citizen children to another parent or caregiver, said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project who is representing one of the families and coordinating with the team representing the other family. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Marco Rubio denies Trump is deporting citizen kids. They’re deporting mothers instead

Rubio slams media for making it ‘sound like ICE agents kicked down door and grabbed two-year-old and threw him on an airplane’

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9 d. ago The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

Mary Annette Pember’s expansive and shocking book Medicine River looks at the many ways that the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native familiesMary Annette Pember will publish her first book, Medicine River, on Tuesday. She signed to write it in 2022 but feels she really started work more than 50 years ago, “before I could even write, when I was under the table as a kid, making these symbols that were sort of my own”.A citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, Pember is a national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. In Medicine River, she tells two stories: of the Indian boarding schools, which operated in the US between the 1860s and the 1960s, and of her mother, her time in such a school and the toll it took. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Legal and ethical ‘nightmare’ after woman gives birth to stranger’s child due to Monash IVF mistake

Case of incorrect embryo transfer at Brisbane clinic raises custody questions that could set a legal precedent in Australia, lawyers sayElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe future of a child whose birth mother was mistakenly given a stranger’s embryo is a legal and ethical “nightmare” without precedent in Australian law, experts say.Monash IVF, which operates across Australia, has apologised after a patient at one of its Brisbane clinics had an embryo incorrectly transferred to her, meaning she unwittingly gave birth to another woman’s child.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ange Postecoglou addresses Tottenham penalty row between Brennan Johnson and Mathys Tel

Johnson was denied chance to clinch a first Premier League hat-trick when Tel insisted on taking late penalty against Southampton

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2 w. ago Young man killed in crash caused by friend denied chance to ever meet his son

'Every baby needs a father and every mother needs a son. Both of us have had this taken from us by the actions of a selfish person'

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3 w. ago Jurgen Klopp has promised to make Liverpool return after invites from Arne Slot

Jurgen Klopp has already made his plans clear after Arne Slot's side were denied the chance to parade the Premier League trophy in front of their fans following their 2019/20 triumph

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last month ‘It means death’: Afghan women’s rights activists face deportation from Pakistan

Police go door-to-door arresting Afghans as government pledges to send millions back home to Taliban ruleMore than 50 prominent female Afghan women’s rights activists sheltering in Pakistan are facing deportation home, where they fear they will be imprisoned or killed under Taliban rule.Under a draconian policy, the Pakistan government has pledged to deport millions of Afghan nationals, after relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan severely deteriorated and attacks by militants in the border areas surged. Continue reading...

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