Life for Immigrant Families in Detention: Sick Children, No Doctors
They stole a few hours sleep under glaring LED lights, crowded in by dozens of other detainees. They shivered through fevers and flus and prayed deadlier diseases weren’t stalking their confines. Then, just as they feared their confinement would linger indefinitely, they were released. “There were a lot of sick people in there,” said Aguayo, who is eight months pregnant and spent more than a month at the detention center with her 5-year-old daughter, Amaya. “And no doctors.”
Companies Reap $22bn from Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Companies including Palantir and Deloitte have collectively reaped more than $22bn from contracts with agencies at the heart of Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown over the past year. The funding boom began after Trump’s second inauguration last January and has accelerated since the passage of the “big beautiful bill”, which became law in July.
‘It’s a farce’: Families of Venezuela Political Prisoners Still Await Their Release
For weeks before the police came for her, Frenchie Mae Cumpio had noticed odd incidents. The Filipino journalist – just 21 years old but already hosting a radio show and working as executive director of a local news website – told colleagues that a stranger had begun turning up and asking after her at the boarding house where she lived. She was sent a bouquet of flowers designed for a grave. She reported that two men had been following her on a motorcycle. Cumpio believed it was deliberate intimidation. She had recently published a series of reports after visiting poor rural farmers who said they were being harassed by army units in the region.
‘Frightening situation’: Bangladesh elections haunted by political violence
Bangladesh is heading to the polls for the first time since Hasina was removed from power, ending more than 15 years of hardline government. Yet, a series of killings, threats and street clashes is reviving fears of a return to past election-season violence, which Bangladesh has routinely grappled with since its 1971 independence from Pakistan.