(2025-12-11). US buying fleet of Boeing jets for use in deportations. newarab.com 
The US Department of Homeland Security is buying its own fleet of Boeing jets for use in "These planes will allow ICE to operate more effectively, including by using more efficient flight patterns," Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on X, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | "This new initiative will save the US taxpayer $279 MILLION," she said, responding to a Washington Post article about the deal. | Bo…
(2025-12-11). ICE Says It Doesn't Have Bodycam Footage Of Chicago Raids Despite Court Order. newsone.com 
Source: Anadolu / Getty | A nonprofit watchdog agency is concerned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials aren't following a court order after ICE told them it had "no records" of body camera footage produced during the ICE raids in Chicago. |
(2025-12-09). Iranian-born Chinese language professor: China feels like my second home | My Story with Chinese Modernization. ecns.cn Born in Iran and having immigrated to Canada in 2018, Meng Na now teaches Chinese at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her connection with China began in 2000, when she arrived in Beijing to pursue a degree in modern Chinese literature at Peking University.
(2025-12-11). Trump Administration's Immigrant Detention Policy Broadly Rejected By Federal Judges. menafn.com (MENAFN – The Conversation) In federal courtrooms across America, a pattern has emerged in cases in which immigrants are being rounded up and jailed without a hearing. That's a departure from …
(2025-12-11). Humanitarians' Baseless Trial in Greece. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Protesters hold placards in solidarity with humanitarians who were still detained in Greece, November 18, 2021. | © 2021 Hesther Ng/SOPA Images via AP Photo | Two dozen humanitarian workers facing 20 years in prison finally got their day in court on December 4 and 5 on the Greek island of Lesbos after a seven-year wait. We were there. The hearings quickly revealed just how baseless the case against them is.The defendants were associated with a small search and rescue group, Emergency Response Center International, working to save the lives of asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees…
(2025-12-11). What's behind the growing anti-immigrant discourse around stateless Rohingya in India. globalvoices.org 
The conflation of 'Bangladeshi Rohingya' serves as a foundation for broader anti-Bangladesh discourse in IndiaGlobal Voices Rohingya Protesters pushing for change in Myanmar at the G20 in Brisbane, Australia. Misinformation about Rohingya refugees
(2025-12-11). Trump Shifts Blame to 'Shithole Countries' Amid Economic Skepticism. scheerpost.com By Skyler Voss Yesterday, the president blamed immigrants during a speech about inflation, asking, "Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?" Today, he also admitted that eight years ago he did, in fact, use the word "shithole"—though he tried …
(2025-12-11). Takeaways From The Georgian Opposition's 365-day Permanent Protest OpEd. eurasiareview.com The socio-political situation in Georgia by the end of the year can be characterized as "stable instability," where the authorities are more or less in control of the situation in the country, while the opposition is trying to undermine this stability, sometimes inflicting "pinpricks" on the authorities, and even then with the help of Western allies. | Georgian opposition forces, comprising political parties, non-governmental organizations, and youth movements positioning themselves as "pro-European," are summing up their 365-day protest on Tbilisi's central avenue. This new form of civil and political resista…
(2025-12-11). How We've Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago. truthout.org "The best way to respond to fear and intimidation tactics is to just show we're not afraid. We're going to keep showing up. We're going to keep speaking out," says musician Jocelyn Walsh, who is facing federal charges for protesting ICE activity in Chicagoland. In this episode of "Movement Memos," Walsh and Chicago organizers Gabe Gonzalez and Rey Wences talk with host Kelly Hayes about what… |
(2025-12-11). Starbucks Workers and Unions in 10 Countries To Protest in Support of US Baristas. portside.org Starbucks Workers and Unions in 10 Countries To Protest in Support of US Baristas |
(2025-12-11). Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity. mondoweiss.net 
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.
(2025-12-11). Tunisia's largest political trial spurs widespread protests. newarab.com 
(2025-12-11). UK: Pressure mounts on Lammy over Palestine Action hunger strike. newarab.com 
Calls are mounting for British Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary MPs say the situation has become urgent, with several of the prisoners already hospitalised and others now more than 38 days without food. | The group began their strike on 20 October in protest at their treatment in custody and what they say are unfair trial conditions, including extended pre-trial detention an…