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RFK Human Rights, Adasina, and FreeCap release new investor risk briefs ahead of GEO Group and CoreCivic Q2 earnings calls
Tags Share New York, NY, August 5, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Adasina Social Capital and FreeCap Financial today released their Q2 investor risk briefs, detailing growing financial liabilities for shareholders of GEO Group and CoreCivic. These reports highlight recent facility closures, heightened scrutiny from regulators, and new and recently decided lawsuits regarding…
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New York Times: Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention
Tags Share Over three decades, Mr. Ceesay, 63, lived a simple life in the same Bronx apartment he has shared with other Gambians since arriving in New York, cheering the Knicks on television. Mr. Ceesay, who is illiterate, swept sidewalks in the Flatiron district in Manhattan for years until two heart attacks forced him to…
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The New York Times: Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention
Tags Share In President Trump’s second term, ICE has ramped up deportations in NYC by arresting migrants during routine check-ins at immigration offices and courts. New data shows over 2,300 arrests since January, many of them longtime residents with no criminal record. Inside detention, migrants report inhumane conditions, including lack of medical care, overcrowding, and…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share How Louisiana Built Trump’s Busiest Deportation Hub ICE wants to make immigration enforcement as efficient as FedEx or Amazon. Louisiana was poised for this moment. Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, more than 21,000 people taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have passed through the Alexandria detention facility.…
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The Washington Post: ‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Tags Share Deported by the U.S. under President Trump’s mass removal policy, over 250 Venezuelan migrants were secretly sent to El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison where they endured months of abuse, torture, and isolation. In a harrowing investigation by The Washington Post, detainees describe sexual assault, starvation, and beatings inside a facility built for gang members.…
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No Zero-Sum Game: AI’s Risks, Roles and Opportunities in a Just Climate Transition
Tags Share Last Wednesday, President Trump unveiled a broad “AI Action Plan” that supplies the administration’s regulatory intent, or lack thereof, around AI development, deployment, and its supporting infrastructure. While some of the plan’s ambitions and recommendations hold merit, the plan raises critical concerns regarding climate and environmental impacts that cannot be overlooked. A key…
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The New York Times:How Louisiana Built Trump’s Busiest Deportation Hub
Tags Share Alexandria International Airport looks like any small-town airfield, but just yards from the terminal sits the Alexandria Staging Facility, now the busiest deportation hub in the U.S. As part of President Trump’s ramped-up immigration crackdown, more than 21,000 people have passed through the Louisiana facility, often with no legal help and no idea…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ‘It is Hell’: Migrants Returning to Venezuela Describe Life in El Salvador Prison Where U.S. Sent Them Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and other officials have said many of the immigrants were physically and psychologically tortured during their detention in El Salvador, airing on state television videos of some of the men describing the…
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The Financial Express: US congressional briefing highlights Bangladesh’s democratic transition, global engagement
Tags Share A high-level congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. brought together lawmakers, diplomats, scholars, and diaspora leaders to assess Bangladesh’s evolving political landscape following the 2024 pro-democracy uprising. Titled “Bangladesh 2.0: Democracy, Reform, and Global Engagement,” the session explored governance reforms, human rights, and relations between the U.S. and Bangladesh. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’…
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Miami Herald: Woman in crisis was stripped, strapped to chair at Florida ICE center, suit says
Tags Share A Colombian woman who was a victim of human trafficking is suing the Baker County ICE detention center in Florida, alleging that officers stripped, restrained, and mocked her while she was in the midst of a mental health crisis. Detained after asking for feminine hygiene products, she was placed in solitary confinement for…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share “Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility. She recalls the generous and compassionate women who helped her through this harrowing ordeal.…
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