Private Prison Companies Call Trump’s Deportation Plans ‘Unprecedented Opportunity’
Trump made mass deportation of undocumented immigrants ― and even some immigrants who are here with legal protections ― a cornerstone of his 2024 campaign, building on years of racist and dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants, speaking affectionately for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s mass deportation program, and even invoking an 18th-century law that could give him broad powers to pursue deportations.
ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won
On November 6, just hours after news outlets declared that Donald Trump had been elected the next president of the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted a notice asking companies to submit plans for how they would expand ICE’s system of ankle monitors, GPS trackers, biometric check-in technology, and human agents monitoring “non-citizens” awaiting immigration court hearings or deportation.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh’s new leader, blasts COP29 as a ‘fish market’ as countries haggle for climate funds
In the three months since becoming Bangladesh’s interim leader following a student-led revolution, Muhammad Yunus has endured political turmoil, impatient cries for elections, and destructive flooding across the low-lying nation.
At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change
More than two dozen world leaders delivered remarks at the United Nations’ annual climate conference Wednesday, with many hard-hit nations detailing their nations’ firsthand experience with the catastrophic weather that has come with climate change.