U.S. assigned a specialized immigration team to target campus protesters
When Rumeysa Ozturk was grabbed by masked federal agents outside her Massachusetts home in March, the video of the Turkish graduate student being handcuffed and hustled into an unmarked vehicle spread around the world. A federal trial that ended Tuesday revealed for the first time the story behind the images, showing how the government assigned a special team to target Ozturk and other pro-Palestinian activists, laying the groundwork for their highly unusual arrests. Ozturk had committed no crime, yet her detention was a priority for the new Trump administration.
U.S. citizen wrongfully detained twice in workplace raids sues immigration authorities
An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant workforces.The class-action lawsuit, filed Tuesday by concrete worker Leo Garcia Venegas with the public interest law firm Institute for Justice, demands an end to what the firm calls “unconstitutional and illegal immigration enforcement tactics.”
Rohingya Muslims plead for help at the U.N. to stop the killings in Myanmar
Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives. “This is a historic occasion for Myanmar, but this is long overdue,” Wai Wai Nu, the Rohingya founder and executive director of the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar, told ministers and ambassadors from many of the U.N.’s 193 member nations in the General Assembly Hall.
Bukele’s Persecution Forces Journalists and Activists to Flee El Salvador
Nearly 50 journalists and dozens of human rights activists have fled El Salvador due to what they denounce as President Nayib Bukele’s policy of persecution. Harassment to the press has worsened in recent months, leading to an increase in the exodus of reporters from the Central American country—precisely after the arrival of Trump, a key ally for Bukele, to the U.S. presidency. According to civil organizations and exile sources, the departure of these journalists and activists stems from a “systematic campaign of harassment, threats, and criminalization by the government of President Nayib Bukele,” whose governing style they describe as authoritarian.