2025-10-29: Immigration Roundup

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APR editor (2025-10-29). Former MP Anae calls for 'Pacific justice' over immigration in petition. asiapacificreport.nz Asia Pacific Report A former National MP has launched a petition calling for "equality and respect" in New Zealand's immigration visa treatment of Pacific Islanders, saying "many are shocked when they learn the truth". In a full page advertisement in The New Zealand Herald newspaper today, Anae Arthur Anae condemned the New Zealand government's visa…

| Talib Fareedi | (2025-10-29). New FIA rules hit overseas job seekers. tribune.com.pk The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has made it mandatory for people travelling abroad for employment to obtain verification from a government officer. Hundreds of passengers have been offloaded at Lahore Airport and other airports across Pakistan by the FIA immigration. | Despite holding tickets worth hundreds of thousands of rupees and complete travel and employment documents, many passengers have been stopped from leaving the country for work. | Passengers say that, despite fulfilling all legal requirements, they are not being allowed to travel, resulting in significant financial losses. "We have spent h…

R. Roberts (2025-10-29). SF Peninsula Vigils Call Out Feds for Shooting Local Pastor in the Face with Pepper Balls. indybay.org On October 23, federal agents attacked peaceful protesters at Coast Guard Island in Alameda where agents had arrived to carry out a major immigration operation. | Photos of Palo Alto Vigil near Stanford University entrance…

ecns.cn (2025-10-29). UK to move asylum seekers from hotels to military bases. ecns.cn Projected costs for Home Office accommodation contracts for the period 2019 to 2029, have surged from 4.5 billion to 15.3 billion pounds ($6 billion to $20.3 billion) amid a "dramatic increase" in demand, the committee said.A Home Office spokesperson said: "We are furious at the level of illegal migrants and asylum hotels."ÄÄ"ÄÄ"This government will close every asylum hotel.

Nick Turse (2025-10-29). Trump's Yemen Strike Killed 61 Immigrants and No Combatants. theintercept.com The U.S. military attacked an immigrant detention center in Yemen earlier this year, killing and injuring dozens of Ethiopian civilians, according to a new report by Amnesty International shared with The Intercept. Conducted during the Trump administration's campaign of air and naval strikes — codenamed Operation Rough Rider — against Yemen's Houthi government, the strike constituted an indiscriminate attack under international humanitarian law and should be investigated as a war crime, according to Amnesty. | "I was buried under the rubble and after about one hour my brother came and pulled me out…

WSWS (2025-10-29). Trump purges top ICE officials, replacements to be vetted by Border Patrol Obergruppenfàºhrer Gregory Bovino. wsws.org Impressed by the mass illegal roundups of immigrants and citizens alike conducted by Customs and Border Protection thugs under Bovino's command, the Trump administration is replacing several ICE directors with CBP officials.

| AFP | (2025-10-29). 12 Pakistanis survive shipwreck off Libya. tribune.com.pk Eighteen people perished when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of migrants capsized off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, while 64 people were rescued, the United Nations' migration agency said. | The vessel "capsized only a few hours into its journey due to high waves", the International Organization for Migration said in a statement, adding that the accident had occurred off the coast of Surman, Libya. | "Among the survivors are 29 Sudanese men, one Sudanese woman, and one Sudanese child; 18 Bangladeshi men; 12 Pakistani men; and three Somali men," it said. No information was yet available about the nationalitie…

Friends of la Peña Immigrant Rights Committee (2025-10-29). Sunday 11/2: Know Your Rights Training. indybay.org La Peña Cultural Center | 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA…

Staff (2025-10-29). COI premia al cubano Raúl Trujillo como entrenador del año. cubadebate.cu El cubano Raúl Trujillo Díaz fue distinguido como ganador masculino de los Premios del Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) para Entrenadores 2025. "Reconoce sus extraordinarios logros y sus contribuciones a la vida de los deportistas olímpicos y al movimiento olímpico", destaca el mensaje enviado al prestigioso formador de luchadores.

Noise Against Genocide & autonomous activists (2025-10-29). Friday 10/31: Protest against israeli consulate in SF. indybay.org üîª456 Montgomery St, SF…

Maxime Duriez (2025-10-29). Repression on protests in solidarity with Flotilla and Palestinian people: NGOs demand EU Council action. fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), together with six other human rights organisations, condemns the alarming repression of peaceful protests across European Union (EU) countries in solidarity with the Palestinian people and the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF). Following the illegal interception and arbitrary detention of activists aboard the GSF, millions of people have gathered across Europe to express their support. In several countries, demonstrations were met with (…) | – | / | <...

Alia Chughtai, Al Jazeera. (2025-10-29). The Rise Of Global Boycotts Against Israel's Genocide In Gaza. popularresistance.org Protests to end Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians are getting louder and larger. | Seeing the livestreamed genocide Israel perpetrated in Gaza has had an effect globally, with the call to boycott Israel at an all-time high.
| Quiet boycotts, which started in supermarkets nearly two decades ago, have turned into widely used apps that help millions make choices about purchases. | Campus protests and encampments in the US and Canada have led some major education institutions to cut ties with Israeli counterparts, while investments into Israel have dipped, and some of the world's largest economies have reco…

Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. (2025-10-29). Trump Visit Met By Popular Protests In Malaysia Over US Backing Israel. popularresistance.org Hundreds of people took to the streets in Malaysia on Sunday, October 26, to oppose US President Donald Trump's visit to the country. Protesters raised slogans in support of the Palestinian resistance and condemned US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. | Protesters also opposed various interventionist policies followed by the US across the globe with chants of "down with imperialism" and demanded Malaysia break its ties with it. | The call for the demonstration was made by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), along with several other organizations who gathered at Kuala Lumpur's Independence Square and Ampan…

LVP (2025-10-29). TDU Inviting Trump Supporter IBT President Sean to TDU Convention for Endorsement. indybay.org The Teamsters For A Democratic Union TDU is having their national convention in Chicago and is inviting as a special guest Teamster president Sean O'Brien to speak and the leadership are pushing the Trump supporter to be endorsed by the TDU. A rally will be held in Chicago to protest the support for IBT president Sean O'Brien…

Indivisible Civil Rights Team (2025-10-29). Monday 10/27: Protest Against the Trump Regime. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz…

Betsey Piette (2025-10-29). The movement needed beyond No Kings protests. workers.org Organized by the liberal groups Indivisible, 50501 and MoveOn, an estimated 7 million to 8 million people demonstrated on the streets of over 2,500 U.S. cities on Oct. 18 in No Kings Day protests. No Kings protest, Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 2025. (Photo: Joe Piette) For the most part, the leaders . . . |

newarab (2025-10-29). Morocco: Over 2,400 facing prosecution over Gen Z protests. newarab.com More than 2,400 people are facing prosecution in Over 1,400 were already in detention, Hassan Farhan, a judge and senior judicial official at the public prosecutor's office, said in a press conference. | Of the 2,480 defendants, about a fifth were charged with "rebellion as part of…

Andrew Nourie, Fight Back! News. (2025-10-29). Portlanders Mobilize To The ICE Facility For Fourth Weekend In A Row. popularresistance.org Portland, OR — Despite a rainstorm, hundreds of Portlanders mobilized on Saturday, October 25 to the Portland ICE Facility to protest the deployment of the National Guard and increased ICE attacks, and to demand the city revoke the land use permit for the ICE Facility. One protester was arrested during the event. | In less than a month the city can begin the process of revoking the permit for the ICE facility. | "It is not [the Portland city council] that lends its permission to operate the ICE facility, but ours. As such, the decision is ours to end permissive behaviors to rogue groups [such as ICE] that s…

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