On November 26, 2025, the Department of Justice disclosed in a court filing that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the final decision to proceed with deportation flights to El Salvador despite U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s explicit order on March 15 to turn the planes around. …
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On October 25, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Chanthila “Shawn” Souvannarath, 44, to Laos in direct violation of a federal court order issued just one day earlier. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana had issued a …
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The US military conducted a controversial “double tap” strike in international waters in the Caribbean, killing all 11 people aboard a suspected drug vessel. The first strike killed nine individuals and set the boat ablaze. Minutes later, Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, then …
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Florida opened a 3,000-5,000 person tent detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades wetlands, costing $450 million annually—three times the cost of existing facilities. Attorney General James Uthmeier boasted detainees who escape would face “alligators and …
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Frontier Services Group announced plans to build a training facility in Xinjiang province, the western Chinese region where as many as 1 million Uyghur Muslims had been placed in extrajudicial detention camps under comprehensive surveillance. FSG’s Chinese website posted a statement saying the …
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On August 10-11, 2016, Ahmed Mansoor, an internationally recognized UAE-based human rights defender and recipient of the Martin Ennals Award, receives suspicious SMS messages on his iPhone promising “new secrets” about detainees tortured in UAE jails. Instead of clicking the malicious …
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U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell launches Operation Wetback, a mass deportation initiative using military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants. Created by Joseph May Swing, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general heading the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the operation targets …
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