(2020-05-23). Oppose the Trump administration's deportation of 1,000 immigrant children! wsws.org International laws and statutes that once offered special protections for immigrant youth seeking asylum have been made a dead letter by the Trump administration.
(2020-05-22). Here's What We're Doing With Your Check, Donald. thenation.com Here's What We're Doing With Your Check, Donald…
(2020-05-22). ICE's Lack of Transparency About COVID-19 in Detention Will Cost Lives. aclu.org Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) detention system was marked by its
(2020-05-21). ICE Confirms More than 100 Deportation Flights to 13 Countries in an Eight-Week Period. cepr.net On Tuesday, in a comment to CEPR's Americas Blog, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson confirmed that the agency had run 112 deportation flights to 13 countries during an eight-week period beginning in early March. This is the first on-the-record comment from ICE confirming the extent of the agency's deportations. Since late April, CEPR …
(2020-05-24). Challenges Facing LGBTQ Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (webinar). indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2020-05-22). Brexit — 50,000 to be employed at Northern Ireland border. truepublica.org.uk Back in March (which seems like years ago now), we reported that the government was lying about Boris Johnson's Withdrawl Agreement. They said quite emphatically, as they had done for several years that there will be no border between Ireland and Northern Ireland — effectively the border between Europe and Gt Britain. March 2nd …
(2020-05-22). "Diarrhea, Dehydration, Hunger, Exhaustion": India's Rural Poor Suffer Most Under Lockdown. democracynow.org 
India just saw its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in 24 hours with 6,000 new reported infections, as an estimated 3 million seek shelter from a powerful cyclone and tens of thousands have no work or food. We go to Mumbai for an update from renowned journalist P. Sainath, founder of the People's Archive of Rural India.
(2020-05-23). Immigrants Jailed by ICE Are Winning Court Battles to Get Free. truthout.org By the time the coronavirus pandemic reached a crisis level in the United States in March, José Velásquez had already spent almost 900 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. A Guatemalan asylum seeker, Velásquez had celebrated his 18th and 19th birthdays behind bars, and, as the pandemic worsened, he worried about making it to his 20th. Over the course of two years in the notorious Adelanto detention center in California, the teenager had developed serious hypertension, a condition th…
(2020-05-24). Iran, Turkey stress need to reopen borders, resume trade. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan where both sides pointed to the need to resume bilateral trade.