This article by The Guardian illustrates how the act of protesting is despite the societal scepcism that often dominates its image a very powerful thing to indulge in and that historically proves to reshape the political landscape.
The Ohio Immigrant alliance published an article exposing ICE's "Operation Buckeye" a large-scale immigration enforcement operation carried out by ICE in Ohio, how violently it has been carried out and how the numbers expose a methodology of profiling and arbitrary enforcement.
This underlined by quotes and reports of the episcopal clergy, civil and human rights activists and indigenous leaders
This article by npr delineates how the trump administration is systematically seizing immigrants legal options by taking away their temporary protected status
This article by CovertAction Magazine provides an elaborate overview of Honduras' recent electoral history, its many struggles with this very crucial democratic procedure and the very recent electoral disaster.
This article from NACLA provides insight on the Trump administration's contradictory polices. Occurrences such as the bombing of fisherboats in the Caribbean are contrasted with the pardon for fomer president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted in US federal court for trafficking tons of drugs into the US.
This digital report by Andrew Trasher explores the nature of ICE's 287(g) agreements with local law enforment forces enabling the agencie to build a "deportation army." The report highlights the extend of ICE expansion by signing areements with different kinds of law enforcement entities, reaching from state prison systems and highway patrols to fish and wild life agencies. Most importantly it emphazises the fact that this quiet mobilization is what makes this widespread deportation action possible in the first place.
A recent article published by The Guardian elaborates on the criminal history of former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez who was pardoned by Trump. It casts light on a long history of US support for him and shows how the US deliberately looked away during Hernandez's years of eroding democratic institutions and building the narcostate in Honduras.
ICE released new detention data. Austin Kocher breaks down the data and discusses why the composition of people in detention with various criminal histories matters politically and legally.
Juan Orlando Hernández, former President of Honduras who last year was sentenced to 45 years in prison for flooding the United States with cocaine was recently pardoned by President Trump. A new article by the New Yok Times illuminates how this political act is in reluctance with the administrations “fight against drugs” and how Donald Trump's longest-serving political adviser and lobbyist Roger Stone has played into this.
More than 150 faith-based organizations from 25 countries launched an open letter on supporting an El Salvadoran ban on metals mining that was overturned by right-wing President Nayib Bukele in 2024.
“We stand in solidarity with civic and religious leaders who are being persecuted and imprisoned for working against injustices, including the devastation that metals mining would cause their communities.”
