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Trump to spend 1.26 billion dollars to open country’s largest immigrant detention center

The US Department of Defense has awarded a contract to Acquisition Logistics LLC to build a sprawling short-term ICE detention center with a capacity of 5,000 detainees

Colorado activists fight to disable cameras aiding ICE arrests

“To protect both immigrant families and the freedoms of every Coloradan, we must dismantle this surveillance system,” say organizers

Socialist women in Texas vow to take on abortion bans and ills of capitalism in “Women’s Socialism Conference”

The Women’s Socialism Conference brought together dozens of socialists and activists from across the state of Texas

Hurricane Beryl causes vast destruction in the Caribbean

Since its formation on June 28, Beryl has caused severe damage in Grenada, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Venezuela, Mexico, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Texas law enforcement will be able to arrest immigrants on mere “suspicion” of crossing border

Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce law that permits state law enforcement agents to deport non-citizens, a power up until now only reserved for federal agents

Eagle Pass stand-off: what’s really behind the border dispute?

The Biden administration has worked to continue Trump’s border wall by any means necessary, including by waiving dozens of federal laws

On the question of refugees, is there any difference between Republicans and Democrats?

Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News explains the debates around Title 42, the suffering of refugees on the US-Mexico border, and how both parties are playing politics with the issue

Colombian ex-military officers admit role in killing 120 civilians and other stories

Today we look at a public hearing in Colombia’s False Positives scandal, acute food insecurity and drought in the Horn of Africa, and more

Execution postponed for wrongfully convicted Texas mother

Across the United States, public figures and everyday people came together in support of Melissa Lucio, sentenced to death without evidence

US Supreme Court might sabotage abortion access nationally

The conservative-majority court is now deliberating after hearing arguments on a case banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy

What does Texas abortion ban mean for reproductive rights in the US?

In the new edition of Peoples Health Dispatch, listen to Leigh Kamore Haynes and Ana Vračar from the People’s Health Movement discuss these developments and their implications.

Thousands across US march in defense of abortion rights

The Texas bill that severely restricts abortion has set a dangerous precedent which will allow other conservative States to challenge reproductive rights through similar bills