Sunday, August 2, 2026

Tag: deportation

Rights group warns masked immigration raids are spreading fear and undermining...

Human Rights Watch says unidentified federal agents are carrying out arrests across the country in ways it argues violate U.S. human rights obligations and erode the rule of law.

How Trump’s immigration dragnet harms all US workers

In all, the nation has so far lost more than a million foreign-born workers amid Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Chicago activist on organizing community ICE patrols as Trump escalates immigration...

Community activist ,Cristóbal Cavazos, says that the people of Chicago have been steadfast in their mobilization against ICE, with communities engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols.

Supreme Court ruling allows ICE to use racial profiling in Los...

Civil rights groups warn that Trump’s immigration crackdown has been given a green light to target Latinos across Southern California.

Chaos & cruelty: Trump deploys thousands of soldiers to put down...

Trump’s budget bill would fund a massive expansion of federal immigration enforcement and turn it into a threat to the civil rights of everyone.

Freedom of movement and global apartheid

We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot.

Outrage in Massachusetts after ICE detains high school student on way...

Milford residents demand answers and justice after ICE agents detain 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva, sparking statewide protests and national criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling...

A multiracial crowd of all ages carrying witty signs and chanting: Their target was the commercial airline Avelo, which has proposed operating as an ICE subcontractor to carry out deportation flights. 

Trump and Bukele defy Supreme Court as Maryland resident remains imprisoned...

Despite unanimous Supreme Court ruling, Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains detained in El Salvador as leaders claim powerlessness to bring him home.

Trump accused of weaponizing Social Security and immigration system to target...

Critics warn of authoritarian overreach as Trump administration marks immigrants as “dead” to force deportation and targets lawful residents for protected political speech.

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The headquarters of CalSTRS, the California teachers' pension fund at the center of The Lever's reporting. Photo: Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly

The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory

U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant

We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.

ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media

The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
The Mississippi State Capitol building in Jackson

Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties

The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
A Flock Safety automated license plate reader mounted on a solar powered pole. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning

Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.