Tag: migrants

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Enforcement At Any Cost? A Death In ICE Custody

Julián Curo-Churata had lived in Laurel, Maryland, for approximately 17 years before immigration officers detained him in June. Three months later, the 47-year-old Peruvian died in a Louisiana hospital while in ICE custody. His family’s lawyer alleges that urgent requests for medical attention were ignored while ICE maintains that he […]

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Costs Rising, Approval Falling

Just days before the midterm elections, two sets of figures released within days of each other describe the same mood from opposite directions. A Reuters/Ipsos poll puts Donald Trump’s approval rating at 32%, the lowest of his presidency. A study by the non-profit Food & Water Watch finds that US […]

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Zelensky Lack Of Judgment Attacking Trump

If even one of the major European governments turns over, Ukraine’s lifeline will be severed. Zelensky’s harsh words about US President Donald Trump was an emotional response after Zelensky deliberately thwarted Trump’s request that Ukraine not strike Russian refineries. Unfortunately Zelensky is making matters worse, and Ukraine’s future is now […]

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The Court Keeps Choosing “For Now”

The Supreme Court’s decision to let the Trump administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own, without giving them a chance to argue the harm they might face there, follows a pattern that’s become familiar over the past two years: the justices repeatedly allow a contested immigration policy […]

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Closed Gates, Open Questions: The Reckoning Over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Florida’s «Alligator Alcatraz» has closed, but the controversy surrounding it has entered a more consequential phase. September disclosures about confinement conditions, followed by a separate federal review of detention spending, have shifted attention from the facility’s provocative branding to the decisions that sustained it. Together, the findings raise questions about […]