2025-10-05: Immigration Roundup

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Mark J Willière (2025-10-05). Takaichi's PM Dream: Anti-Immigration Politics or a Cultural Clash? thinktank.pk In a seismic shift for Japanese politics, Sanae Takaichi clinched the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership on October 4, 2025, positioning her as the frontrunner to become Japan's first female prime minister when the Diet confirms her in the coming days. The ultra-conservative firebrand, often dubbed Japan's "Iron Lady" for her Thatcher-esque resolve, rode a …

latintimes (2025-10-05). ICE Impersonation Incidents Reach Record High in 2025, Outnumbering Four Administrations' Combined Total. latintimes.com Experts and local officials have linked the spike to the government's expanded, highly visible immigration operations and the use of masks and plain clothes by agents during raids…

____ (2025-10-05). Tensions Escalate in Chicago as Border Patrol Confronts Protesters. devdiscourse.com In a high-stakes confrontation in Chicago, U.S. Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman amid clashes with protesters opposing federal immigration policies on the city's southwest side. The woman, whose identity remains undisclosed, reportedly drove herself to a hospital following the incident. No serious injuries to law enforcement were reported.

Newsroom (2025-10-05). Czech Election: Babis's Search for Majority Puts Fringe Parties in Driver's Seat. moderndiplomacy.eu The populist ANO party, led by billionaire Andrej Babis, won the recent Czech election with 34.5% of the votes but did not secure a majority. This leaves ANO needing coalition partners to form a government. The party, aligned with Hungary's Viktor Orban and several far-right EU groups, aims to strengthen the populist and anti-immigration bloc …

latintimes (2025-10-05). DHS Slams Lawsuit Over Targeted Workplace Immigration Raids: 'Race-Baiting Opportunism'. latintimes.com According to the complaint, agents at construction sites in Alabama targeted workers "who looked Latino" while leaving others on site unchallenged…

en.mehrnews (2025-10-05). Police arrest anti-ICE protesters in Portland. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 05 (MNA) — Police clashed with protesters outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Portland, Oregon on Saturday.

bwitanek (2025-10-05). NJ Mobilizes in Opposition to Palantir Hi-Tech Role in ICE Repression. fightbackbetter.com The following is the call to action at Palantir Technologies is shamelessly profiting off of the personal information gathered from immigrants and all of us. Their roots run deep with ties to the Department of Defense, including tech and infrastructure development for the military. For over 10 y…

tn.ai (2025-10-05). Activists Say Greta Thunberg Being Tortured in Israeli Prison. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — International outrage has erupted after deported activists reported brutal torturing of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg by Israeli forces following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

jagonews24 (2025-10-05). Thunberg 'forced kiss Israeli flag', flotilla activists allege. jagonews24.com Several international activists deported from Israel after joining a Gaza aid flotilla have accused Israeli forces of mistreating climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.

albawaba (2025-10-05). Sumud activists: Greta Thunberg is being mistreated by Israeli forces. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Several Global Sumud Flotilla activists accused Israeli forces of allegedly mistreating Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg after they detained her as a warning to others on board the humanitarian movement, which aimed to break the siege in Gaza and allow aid such as basic needs and food to enter. Many other pro-Palestine activists were also detained by Israeli forces but deported to Istanbul, according to Turkish authorities. A total of 137 activists, including 36 Turkish nationals and others from various countries, landed in Istanbul.During an interview, one of the activists accused Israeli for…

en.mehrnews (2025-10-05). Iran police protests infiltrated drones from neighbors. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 05 (MNA) — Iranian border police commander General Ahmad Ali Goudarzi says that during the 12-day war imposed by the Zionist regime, drones entered Iran from some neighboring countries, which were documented to lodge a complaint.

____ (2025-10-05). Clashes Erupt in Georgia: Opposition's Decisive Stand. devdiscourse.com In Georgia, riot police clashed with demonstrators near the presidential palace on Saturday, amidst local elections marked by political tension. Using pepper spray and water cannons, police dispersed protesters but detained five activists, sparking outrage among opposition supporters who accuse the ruling Georgian Dream party of autocratic governance.

Newsroom (2025-10-05). Facing Street Protests, Georgian Leader Claims Foreign-Backed Plot to Oust Him. moderndiplomacy.eu Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze accused protesters attempting to enter the presidential palace of trying to overthrow the government, and he claimed that the European Union was interfering in Georgia's internal affairs. Riot police used pepper spray and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators during a large opposition rally coinciding with local elections, leading to …

newarab (2025-10-05). Turkey bans Oct 7 Robbie Williams concert over 'safety concerns'. newarab.com Turkish authorities have banned a Robbie Williams concert scheduled for October 7 in Istanbul over "safety concerns" following several calls for protest, a source from the city governor's office told AFP news agency Sunday. | The concert would have occurred on the The organising company announced the concert's cancellation "in line with a decision made by the Istanbul governor's…

newarab (2025-10-05). Morocco sees eighth straight day of youth protests. newarab.com

The Canary (2025-10-05). Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters. thecanary.co The Met police have announced they arrested a total of 488 peaceful sign-holders who took part in the action in Trafalgar Square. The arrests took six and a half hours, with the final arrests at 7.30pm, after the silent vigil began at 1pm. This brings the total number arrested for defying the Palestine Action ban […] | By

Skwawkbox (2025-10-05). Starmer and Mahmood's attack on protest is naked genocide collaboration. thecanary.co Keir Starmer and his Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood have said they are going to grant new powers to police to put more restrictions on 'repeat protests'. This, they say, is to allow senior police and their Home Office bosses to consider the supposed 'cumulative impact' of previous protests and force organisers to re-route them or […] | By

Skwawkbox (2025-10-05). VIDEO: LBC's Shelagh Fogarty sneers at people protesting a genocide. thecanary.co On Saturday 4 October, as thousands took to the streets to protest against Israel's mass slaughter of almost 700,000 innocent Palestinians in Gaza and the UK government's continued collusion in its crimes, LBC's sneering presenter Shelagh Fogarty dismissed the protests as "teenage foot-stamping" and told protesters to "just…grow up". LBC: platforming rabid Zionists again Israel's […] | By

Sharon Geva (2025-10-05). How Israel turned the protest into a tool of the system. haaretz.com Israel has made it legitimate for mothers to protest against wars, as long as they did it for their sons rather than a critical political position…

Kevin Gosztola (2025-10-05). September Update For Paid Subscribers. thedissenter.org Hello, | Nearly every morning, I wake up to see another alert or story about armed and masked ICE agents in their military gear waging war on some part of the Chicagoland area where I am based. They shoot at journalists. They shoot at protesters and drag them across the pavement.

newarab (2025-10-05). UK announces new crackdown on protests against Gaza genocide. newarab.com

Kim Petersen (2025-10-05). Poems in Opposition to Genocide. dissidentvoice.org Poetry is a written form that through eloquence and wordmanship engages the senses to produce a vivid experience and stir emotions that differ from reading straight-on prose. As such, poetry can be a powerful method to speak truth to power and evoke consciousness that fillips protest and resistance in opposition to horrific crimes and in …

Jonathan Cook (2025-10-05). The Met Police Chief Proves He's as Dishonest and Racist as the Force He Leads. dissidentvoice.org 1. Rowley demands supporters of Palestine Action cancel or delay their protest today, after the Manchester synagogue attack, because the timing appears "antisemitic". How to untangle this nonsense? a) The only possible way to interpret Rowley's argument is that he believes every British Jew identifies and supports Israel's mass slaughter of children in Gaza and …

Yasmine Louanchi (2025-10-05). Morocco: End the crackdown on peaceful protests and uphold the right to demands social justice. fidh.org Human rights organisations, including FIDH and OMCT within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, condemn the repression carried out by the Moroccan authorities against peaceful demonstrations organised by the 'Generation Z 212' movement, in which minors and human rights defenders participated. They call for the immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly.
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ACLU (2025-10-05). Wednesday 10/15: ACLU Protest Safety, Know Your Rights and De-Escalation Training Webinar. indybay.org Online | RSVP: act.aclu.org/a/no-kings-kyr-eng2 | Traducción al español estará disponible. | ASL interpretation…

ecns.cn (2025-10-05). Lee orders crackdown on protests. ecns.cn South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has struck a right note by ordering a crackdown on protests and demonstrations against foreigners within the country, as such acts are "self-destructive", as he called them, according to analysts.

Antifabot (2025-10-05). Going 'behind enemy lines' at a far-right demo I saw how fascism hides behind a veneer of normality. thecanary.co I feel like it's important, you know? I work in radio and it's shit like this that we don't cover. We're not allowed to. Did you know there's 80 sharia law courts in the UK and we can't do ____ all about them? I'd risking my job just being here. Smiling at the group of […] | By

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