2025-12-12: Immigration Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-12 3:24pm GMT

WSWS (2025-12-12). US government brands DACA recipient Yaa'kub Vijandre a "terrorist" for opposing genocide in Gaza. wsws.org The US government has held Vijandre, a Dallas resident, in immigration detention for over nine weeks despite admitting in court filings that he has committed no crimes and that the only "evidence" of his alleged "terrorism" consists of social media posts protected under the First Amendment.

CNA (2025-12-12). Venezuelan Authorities Prevent Cardinal Porras From Traveling, Cancel Passport. eurasiareview.com By Andrés Henríquez | On Dec. 10 Venezuelan immigration police confiscated and invalidated the passport of Cardinal Baltazar Porras, the archbishop emeritus of Caracas, as he was preparing to travel to Bogotá, Colombia, from Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. | According to the Grand Priory of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in Venezuela, on Wednesday morning the cardinal "was subjected to humiliating treatment" by airport authorities under the government of Nicolas Maduro. | From Bogotá, Porras was scheduled to take a flight to Madrid and then travel to Toledo, wh…

____ (2025-12-12). Gaza's Displaced Battle Floods Amid Shelter Shortages. devdiscourse.com Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are grappling with serious flooding as torrential rains swamp the region, severely affecting makeshift shelters. The UN International Organization for Migration revealed on Friday that essential materials like sandbags and timber are unable to reach the enclave.

Phil Pasquini (2025-12-12). UN Human Rights Day for Immigrants is on ICE. indybay.org Human Rights activists observing Human Rights Day rallied at San Francisco City Hall to show support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed in Paris in 1948, stressing the need now more than ever for its application in an era seeing a rise in Fascism.

John Catalinotto, Ché Marino (2025-12-12). Activists in New York City denounce Trump's 'no-fly zone'. workers.org New York City December 10 — Antiwar activists in the United States held a news conference today to protest the illegal "no-fly zone" U.S. President Donald Trump ordered for Venezuela. The order had prevented many activists from attending a solidarity meeting in Caracas, Venezuela. From the tone of today's protest, . . . |

Mnar Adley, Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. (2025-12-12). Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting Mintpress. popularresistance.org A prolific writer who has penned 28 pro-Israel articles in the past two months alone, Sawer asked the British Palestinian journalist to respond to pro-Israel pressure group Stop The Hate U.K.'s campaign for him to be prosecuted for "anti-Semitic hate crimes." | Abul-Essad's "crime" was attending an October 2024 demonstration in London protesting an event featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaking on the future of Gaza — a case that the Metropolitan Police have already looked into and dismissed. | Sawer has previous connections to Stop The Hate U.K.

Noise Against Genocide, NAG (2025-12-12). Friday 12/12: Protest against the israeli consulate in SF. indybay.org israeli consulate – 456 Montgomery St SF…

Human Rights Watch (2025-12-12). Rule of Law Backsliding in France. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Riot police barricade, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, December 8, 2018. | © 2018 Human Rights Watch | On December 9, CIVICUS Monitor, a nongovernmental group assessing civic freedoms globally, downgraded France's civic space from "narrowed" to "obstructed."The downgrade is the result of years of attacks on civic space, marked by "escalating police violence, surveillance practices, and arrests of protesters, targeting of journalists, and persistent restrictions on fundamental rights," according to CIVICUS. The French government is also increasingly using heavy-handed administrative me…

UPTE-CWA (2025-12-12). Thursday 12/11: SF General UCSF Rally to Protest Murder of UPTE CWA Social Worker. indybay.org In front of SF General Hospital on Potrero Avenue…

Sana Khan (2025-12-12). Nepal Counts $586 Million Economic Blow from 'Gen Z' Anti-Graft Protests. moderndiplomacy.eu Nepal's government says the youth-led anti-corruption protests that erupted in September and ultimately forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign have inflicted more than $586 million in damage on the country's $42 billion economy. The demonstrations, driven largely by Gen Z activists frustrated with political corruption, spiralled into nationwide unrest that left 77 people …

Sharon Zhang (2025-12-12). 2024 Eurovision Winner Returns Trophy to Protest Israel's Inclusion in Contest. truthout.org Last year's winner of the Eurovision Song Contest says they are returning their trophy to the contest's governing body in protest of Israel's inclusion in the 2026 competition, adding to a mounting pressure campaign to exclude the genocidal state. In posts on Instagram on Thursday, singer and musician Nemo Mettler, known as Nemo, said that although they are "immensely grateful" for the… |

mediasanctuary (2025-12-11). NYIC Report on ICE's Anti-Latino Practices. mediasanctuary.org The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has released a new report analyzing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement practices in New York. The report reveals disproportionate impact of ICE arrests on Latino communities across the state. Mario Bruzzone, VP for Policy at NYIC, discusses the report with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

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