2025-12-30: Immigration Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-31 06:30am GMT

editor (2025-12-30). Despite Bondi, Australia will remain a world-outlier on mass-migration. onlineopinion.com.au On its triennial immigration-stats, Albanese Australia is a radical outlier not the cautious reformer of embedded media-narrative. Not even Bondi can budge him much.

aljazeera (2025-12-30). Judge blocks Trump effort to strip South Sudan deportation protections. aljazeera.com Trump is seeking to end protected status for South Sudan, claiming country no longer poses danger to those returning.

tehrantimes (2025-12-30). Enemy stages street protests to mask 12‚Äëday war defeat. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN – The Javan newspaper analyzed enemy strategies in fomenting unrest in Iran.

newarab (2025-12-30). Video of protester defying police in Iran goes viral. newarab.com A video of a protester sitting in the street and facing down police on motorbikes during Protesters including shopkeepers and university students have been rallying against economic hardship in Iran since Sunday. | The viral footage showed a person sitting cross-legged on the road with their head bowed before more than 20 p…

geo.tv (2025-12-30). Iran's government offers dialogue as protests spread to universities. geo.tv People walk past a display sign at a currency exchange bureau as the value of the Iranian rial drops, in Tehran, Iran, December 20, 2025.— ReutersProtests over Iran's soaring cost of living spread to several universities on Tuesday, with students joining shopkeepers and bazaar…

geo.tv (2025-12-30). Iran president tells govt listen to protesters 'legitimate demands'. geo.tv Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran, September 16, 2024. — ReutersTehran shopkeepers keep stores shut amid currency plunge.Protesters demand intervention on exchange-rate volatility.Central bank governor replaced as crisis deepens.TEHRAN: …

Josh Breiner (2025-12-30). Israeli police raid anti-crime Arab home, detain her over Palestinian flags. haaretz.com The 60-year-old activist, who leads weekly anti-crime protests, was questioned on suspicion of incitement after police found Palestinian flags and magnets in a search that she says left her children terrified, calling it 'political'…

tehrantimes (2025-12-30). Manufacturing chaos: How Western and Israeli actors seek to hijack Iran's peaceful protests. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — Protests are a natural and fundamental part of any society whose citizens care about their future and believe they can influence it. They are not a sign of systemic failure, but an indicator of civic health and the practice of free speech, assembly, and association. For Western states, their media, and their politicians, all of this holds true—except when the protests occur in Iran.

ptcnews.tv (2025-12-30). Iran gripped by fresh unrest as economic crisis sparks biggest protests in three years. ptcnews.tv PTC Web Desk: Iran is witnessing its most intense wave of street protests in three years as a collapsing economy, soaring inflation and public anger against clerical rule spill onto the streets of major cities. Over the past two days, demonstrations have erupted across Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz and several other towns, exposing deep cracks within the Islamic Republic led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Rial crash and inflation fuel public angerThe immediate trigger for the unrest has been the dramatic fall of the Iranian rial, which has slipped beyond 42,000 against the US dollar. Inflation has c…

auorinoco (2025-12-30). Bolivia: General Strike Led by Miners' Union Continues. orinocotribune.com An indefinite general strike called by the Bolivian Workers' Central (COB) has now entered its second week. The strike has been in response to Supreme Decree 5503, a law condemned by unions and peasant organizations for being part of an "IMF-imposed adjustment" that is deteriorating the standard of living of the working population. Miners have been at the forefront of these protests. | Since last Monday, December 22, thousands of miners have been marching on La Paz. Wearing helmets and carrying tools, they have set up roadblocks and blockades around Plaza Murillo, the central square of the national government. Th…

newarab (2025-12-30). Thousands of Somalis protest Israel's recognition of Somaliland. newarab.com

Mark Brody (2025-12-30). How Effective Is Protesting? According to Historians and Political Scientists: Very. portside.org How Effective Is Protesting? According to Historians and Political Scientists: Very |

Our Reporter (2025-12-30). Ssekikubo Protests Unexplained Transfer of Election Petition Appeal. plusnews.ug Lawyers representing Theodore Ssekikubo, the Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament, have formally protested the transfer of his election petition appeal against the Electoral Commission (EC) from the Masaka High Court to Kampala, arguing that the move was made without explanation and raises concerns about procedural fairness. The objection was raised at the commencement of proceedings …

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