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In the ongoing war between the Trump administration and the rule of law, Rhode Island-based U.S. District Judge John McConnell vacated a number of dreadful immigration policies decreed by Trump in November 2025. These included prohibiting any immigration application for those from 39 travel ban countries, halting the ability to get green cards, ending the processing of asylum claims from any country, and insisting on a review of all immigration benefits bestowed to those from the 39 travel ban countries under former President Biden. ... read full post
A growing boycott against Citizens Bank is part of a campaign to pressure it to divest from financing CoreCivic and GEO Group, two of the nation’s largest private operators of ICE jails. ... read full post
A master hearing is a session in which an immigration judge hears multiple cases. Among other functions, an expulsion may be ordered or (rarely) voluntary departure granted. Then the individual (called a ‘respondent’) is given a date for an “individual or merits” hearing in which there is one respondent and the merits of the case are presented. Each respondent in a master hearing usually gets 3–5 minutes. An individual hearing can take up to 20 minutes. ... read full post
Two separate stories from the past week share the same pattern: ICE and its chief contractor GEO Group allegedly using solitary confinement (which is considered torture under international law) to punish detainees for speaking out about conditions in detention facilities. ... read full post
We are on day 19 of a hunger strike at Delaney Hall, a notorious ICE detention center in Newark NJ. As protests rage outside the prison in solidarity with the hunger and labor strikers inside, New Jersey elected officials have been trying to both inspect the conditions of Delaney Hall and get answers on the status of the health and well being of prisoners for their loved ones on the outside. ... read full post
A pro-Israel pastor who inveighs against “sharia law” and preaches about the Jews worshipping the Antichrist is the favored candidate in a crowded congressional primary in Oklahoma on Tuesday. ... read full post
Last month, Responsible Statecraft’s Ben Freeman reported on a provision buried in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that seeks to deepen connections between the United States and Israeli militaries. ... read full post