by Claudia Boyd-Barrett | Mar 25, 2026 | DHS, Family Separation, ICE, Migrant Children, News, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Refugees, Trump Administration
Carlos arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Mexico in December, believing he was one step closer to reuniting with his children. By that point, his 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter had been in a federal shelter in Texas for nearly a year after crossing the border to be with him. “I feel like I’m suffocating inside this shelter, trapped with no way out,”…
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by Rebecca Gordon | Mar 25, 2026 | Asylum Seekers, Concentration Camps, ICE, Internment Camps, Op-Ed, Todd Lyons, Trump Administration
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, U.S.
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by Amy Goodman | Mar 24, 2026 | Interview, Middle East, Trump Administration, US Army, War opposition, war veterans
With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, who says his organization has received a massive increase in inquiries from soldiers seeking to submit conscientious objector applications. Prysner cites a “shift in consciousness” among…
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by Ariana Figueroa | Mar 24, 2026 | CECOT, Deportation, ICE, immigration, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Liberia, News, Trump Administration
The Trump administration is again trying to send the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the west African nation of Liberia and urging a federal judge to dismiss a bar on his removal, according to legal documents filed over the weekend. Abrego Garcia, of Maryland, has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, which will accept him as a refugee, and is fighting his removal to another third…
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by Sonali Kolhatkar | Mar 22, 2026 | cuba, Economic Warfare, Iran, Op-Ed, Sanctions, Trump Administration
Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “peace president,” has already attacked two nations since the start of 2026 — engaging in regime change in Venezuela on January 3 and launching an air war on Iran on March 1 — and is now strongly suggesting that Cuba would be next. All three nations have been harmed by U.S.-led economic wars for years in the form of sanctions, which have hurt the countries’…
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by Aviva Stahl | Mar 21, 2026 | Gender-Affirming Care, LGBTQ, News, NYC, Office of LGBTQIA+, Trans Rights, Trump Administration, Zohran Mamdani
Last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of the Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs, fulfilling a key promise he made to queer and trans New Yorkers on the campaign trail. The office’s appointed director, Taylor Brown, who worked in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York Attorney General’s Office, becomes the first openly transgender person to lead a New York City office or…
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