2025-08-29: Immigration Roundup

So far today: 2025-08-29 10:50pm GMT

aljazeera (2025-08-29). Firefighters tackling wildfire in US arrested by immigration agents. aljazeera.com Border patrol officers swoop in, make arrests as firefighters prepare to tackle 3,600-hectare blaze in Washington State.

Editor (2025-08-29). ICE Continues to Detain Award-Winning Journalist Who Filmed Immigration Raids. scheerpost.com

Staff (2025-08-29). Reports of Uprising at 'Alligator Alcatraz'. unicornriot.ninja Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Everglades, FL — According to reporting by Noticias 23/Univision, an uprising took place on or around Thursday, August 28 at the notorious immigrant detention center called 'Alligator Alcatraz' by some and the 'Everglades Concentration Camp' by others. The site has drawn widespread condemnation due to severe human rights and environmental …

EDWIN (2025-08-29). Operation Vala Umgodi nets 215 suspects. sanews.gov.za Operation Vala Umgodi nets 215 suspects | The South African Police Service's nationwide Operation Vala Umgodi has led to the arrest of 215 suspects of different nationalities. | "These suspects were arrested for illegal mining related offences and various other serious crimes such as unlawful possession of explosives, unlawful possession of unlicensed firearms, illegal possession of gold bearing material, illegal possession of precious metals, possession of gold processing equipment and contravention of the Immigration Act," the South African Police Service (SAPS) said in a statement. | The arrests were effected…

Mike Ludwig, Truthout. (2025-08-29). Judge Blocks Deportation Of Kilmar Abrego Garcia To Uganda, For Now. popularresistance.org A federal judge appeared skeptical of the Trump administration's latest attempt to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a court scheduling hearing on August 25, the same day Abrego Garcia was rearrested during a check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The judge has ordered that the longtime Maryland resident be detained within the continental United States as a lawsuit challenging his detention and removal moves forward this week. The judge suggested previous protective orders would be extended if the administration attempts a deportation in the meantime. | The temporary order from U.S. District Judge…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-08-29). Western Civilization Is Not Worth Saving. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Western civilization is not worth saving. I think that's been pretty well established by now. | That's one of the silliest things about the way rightists are always babbling about how we need to protect our way of life from immigrants or Islam or "the trans agenda" or whatever. They're beginning with the assumption that this train wreck of a society is worth saving at all. | I am not saying that westerners should die. I am not saying that all the ideals and value…

WSWS (2025-08-29). Guards riot, beat immigrant detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" concentration camp in Florida Everglades. wsws.org In frantic phone calls, immigrants reported that guards deployed tear gas and assaulted them.

Joe Piette (2025-08-29). PA protest against incarceration of migrant workers. workers.org Hundreds of people from Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other cities across Pennsylvania rallied in the city of Philipsburg, on Aug. 24. to protest against the GEO Moshannon Valley Processing Center. As the largest federal detention facility not located in the U.S. South, the for-profit facility receives most of the people arrested . . . |

Lital Khaikin (2025-08-29). Millions of Afghans forced to return to a hellscape the world forgot. responsiblestatecraft.org It's been a dark summer for Afghans. When Israel launched the 12-day war with Iran on June 13, Tehran used it as a pretext to scapegoat some of its most vulnerable residents.In its latest wave of deportations, an estimated

Marc Delucchi, Sophie Shepherd (2025-08-29). Essentials for Fighting ICE. counterpunch.org Since Donald Trump' s inauguration, ICE has ramped up aggressive attempts to abduct and deport community members across the country. ICE's tactics and strategies aren't new. It's important to remember that every president (yes, even Barack Obama & Joe Biden) and congress has increased ICE's budget since its creation in 2003. ICE threatening more and

Peoples Dispatch (2025-08-29). ICE carries out a second raid on a New York farm as workers push to unionize. peoplesdispatch.org Seven Lynn-Ette & Sons farmworkers were detained just months after a previous raid that led to deportations, sparking outrage from the United Farm Workers…

Leon Kunstenaar (2025-08-29). Well Fargo Closes Branches Amid Accusations of Genocide. indybay.org Multiple coordinated "Stop Billionaires Summer" action protests and street theater at downtown SF Wells Fargo actions…

aljazeera (2025-08-29). Microsoft fires four workers over protests against firm's ties to Israel. aljazeera.com Microsoft says the terminations followed serious breaches amid claims that its software is used by Israeli army in Gaza.

albawaba (2025-08-29). Microsoft terminations spark outrage over role in Gaza bombing program. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Microsoft has fired four workers who took part in protests against the company's alleged support of the Israeli military during its ongoing operations in Gaza. There has been a lot of criticism of Microsoft's Azure cloud services lately, and reports say they are being used in military targeting and mass surveillance programs. | Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that they had fired two employees for "serious violations of company policy," according to CNBC. The company said that going into the office of Brad Smith, Microsoft's Vice Chair and President, during a protest at the company's headquarters was "

Henry Giroux (2025-08-29). Domestic Terrorism and Spectacularized Violence in Trump's Warfare State. counterpunch.org

50501 Santa Rosa, DSA,, more (2025-08-29). Monday 9/1: Santa Rosa: Labor Day Protest – Workers Over Billionaires! NO ICE! NO Fascism! NO Wars! indybay.org Old Courthouse Square | 4th Street and Mendocino Ave | Downtown Santa Rosa | Peaceful, nonviolent action…

Jim McMahan (2025-08-29). Workers' intifada against Microsoft. workers.org As the United Nations' world food crisis authority finally declared a famine in Gaza, direct action demonstrators protested war profiteer Microsoft, whose technology is used to aid the U.S./Israeli war, which is committing genocide in Gaza. No Azure for Apartheid demonstration on Microsoft's campus in Redwood, Washington, Aug. 20, 2025. . . . |

Ana Vračar (2025-08-29). Croatian media workers protest against genocide and attacks on journalists. peoplesdispatch.org

aljazeera (2025-08-29). One killed, dozens injured at anti-government protests in Jakarta. aljazeera.com Indonesia's President has called for calm after police ran over and killed a man during anti-government protests.

aljazeera (2025-08-29). Protests resume in Indonesia's Jakarta after ride-share driver killed. aljazeera.com Affan Kurniawan was killed after an armoured police vehicle ran into him during a demonstration in the capital.

Nick Licata (2025-08-29). The Art of Deflection: Trump Sent Troops Into Cities Not to Fight Crime But to Deflect From the Epstein Files. counterpunch.org There is a clear link between media coverage of the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's files and Trump's deployment of Federalized National Guards and Marines into the Democratic-leaning cities of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Trump has also promised to send troops into other cities that heavily voted for Democrats. These actions will divert public and

Albert Bender (2025-08-28). Judge says Trump 'absolutely forbidden' to deport Abrego García to Uganda. peoplesworld.org NASHVILLE—A federal judge this week stopped the deportation of embattled working-class father and immigrant Kilmar Abrego García in the wake of his release from a Tennessee jail last Friday. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued a new order declaring the Trump administration is "absolutely forbidden to remove Abrego García from the continental United States." Xinis …

Staff (2025-08-28). Minneapolis Protest Against ICE, Mayor, and Roof Depot Deal Meddling. unicornriot.ninja MINNEAPOLIS, MN — On Thursday, August 28, a protest was called by a collection of groups in Minnesota demanding "ICE Out" of Minneapolis and a "real sanctuary city for immigrants now," and for Mayor Jacob Frey to "stop sabotaging the Roof Depot deal" as well as "no millionaire-backed election meddling" on the event flyer. Watch …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2025-08-28). Remembering the FBI's Deceit and John Bolton's Dangerous Career. orinocotribune.com By Melvin Goodman — Aug 27, 2025 | The mainstream media are describing John Bolton as an experienced diplomat and a serious analyst. He was neither. Many members of the media are also giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation credibility as a fair-minded bureaucracy that would not raid Bolton's office and home without honoring the requirement that at least two magistrate judges accept the case for Bolton's guilt. Over the past hundred years, there have been numerous examples of the FBI doing the dirty work of Democratic and Republican administrations, particularly violating laws to protect immigrants and di…

David Trujillo (2025-08-28). Poem: 'Traitors of Democracy'. peoplesworld.org These are dark times in America. There is a cold wind blowing across the land. A catastrophic devil storm is brewing. The predictable rage is coming. A possible swirling vortex of disturbances A worrisome path of destruction lies ahead. In the eye of the storm, a perverted sense of morality exists. A sudden burst …

Ivan Fernandez (2025-08-28). Cal Poly Pomona Students Protest, Successfully 'Postponing' Career Fair Over Border Patrol Presence. lataco.com Many students felt unsafe with CBP on campus. Meanwhile, the university's career center is reassessing its programming for future events.

Bar Peleg (2025-08-28). Protesters spilled red paint in front of IDF home, call for him to refuse order to take over Gaza. haaretz.com The protest comes following escalating demonstrations by one of the organizers, Standing Together, a coexistence and social justice movement, calling to end the war in Gaza. Five protesters were arrested…

Chen Maanit (2025-08-28). Israel Police chief opposes far-right minister plan to curb protests. haaretz.com Israel Police Commissioner Danny Levy says decisions must be made in the field based on the police's assessment of the situation and the main consideration should be preserving human life, while National Security Minister Ben-Gvir placed freedom of movement and the 'right to privacy, quiet, and property' above the freedom of protest…

202508291850 | f5 | 38 | 1984 | 22940