“Fire up the deportation planes”: Trump admin celebrates Supreme Court ruling enabling Trump to deport migrants to countries not their own
Immigrant rights organizer says Trump administration is wielding yet “another attack on human rights”
Arrest of leading Salvadoran human rights defender Ruth López sparks mass outrage
The arrest came after Bukele proposed a Foreign Agents Law to tax NGOs operating in El Salvador.
CECOT: Bukele’s mega prison where “the only way out is in a coffin”
The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.
Outrage grows over mistaken deportation of Maryland resident to Salvadoran prison
US Supreme Court intervenes in favor of Trump administration, pausing an order to return Maryland father to US from El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison
Venezuelan families demand justice for their relatives deported to El Salvador
The Venezuelan government has initiated all possible steps (political and legal) to achieve the return of its citizens. A US judge claimed “Nazis got better treatment” than the Venezuelans accused of gang activity.
Death toll of migrant tragedy in Texas reaches 53
President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, which are largely the same as those of former President Donald Trump, have been pushing people to take increasingly dangerous routes to reach the US
US federal probe shows abuse, deaths in Indigenous boarding schools and other stories
Today we look at the US federal inquiry into Indigenous boarding schools, the murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and more
Crackdown in El Salvador, toxic contamination at US base in Seoul and other stories
Today we look at the state of emergency in El Salvador after a surge in killings, soil and water contamination at a US base in South Korea, and more
WHO members states agree to form global treaty on pandemic response and other stories
Today we look at the WHO session on a global pandemic treaty, an IACHR ruling on the death of an El Salvadoran woman who was jailed after a miscarriage, and more
Migrants in Mexico demand protections amid growing uncertainty in status
Thousands of Central American migrants, stranded in Mexico, demand that the authorities accelerate the process to regularize their immigration status so that they can legally reside, transit and work throughout the country.
Protests against violent crackdown on Palestinians in Israeli jails and other stories
Today we look at protests against the violence faced by Palestinians in Israeli jails, protests held at the South African border in solidarity with Swaziland, and more
Protests break out after femicide of Salvadoran migrant Victoria Salazar in Mexico
Several national and international feminist groups and human rights organizations have condemned Victoria Salazar’s murder as well as the racist, classist, misogynist and xenophobic discrimination that reigns in Mexico
- Trump admin eyes Colorado for new ICE detention centers
- New assembly in Naples to bring Sahel voices to the forefront
- Marco Rubio sanctions UN rapporteur for criticism of Israel
- Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazilian goods in letter attacking the Supreme Court and defending Bolsonaro
- 250 million Indian workers and farmers on the streets in a national strike
