The UNHCR's spokesperson, Babar Baloch, described the area as an unmarked graveyard for thousands of desperate Rohingya refugees, noting that some 5,000 are thought to have drowned at sea over the last decade.
TSA PreCheck is a program that vets US travelers to give them access to an expedited screening lane at the airport security checkpoint. Members do not need to remove large electronics or liquids from their carry-on bags, and they can keep on light jackets and belts, too, saving precious time before a flight.
The new president's actions have raised eyebrows at Leinster House, although nobody is yet saying a word. This goes to the sometimes tense relationship between a Head of State and the Government.
Palantir Technologies, despite earning $1.6 billion in net income last year, did not pay any federal income taxes due to favorable tax policies that allow corporations to dodge taxes.
"The Battalion Search and Rescue always carries the Electronic Frontier Foundation's zine in our desert rig. We're finding new surveillance all the time, and without a resource like that, we wouldn't know what the hell we're looking at."
On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order abolishing 'birthright citizenship' for people born in the U.S. whose parents were not 'legal residents' at the time of their birth. This directly violates the 14th Amendment of U.S. Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all people born in the United States.
Of the 15 officers who died in the line of duty while working for Enforcement and Removal Operations, the ICE branch charged with detaining unauthorized migrants within the interior of the US, all but two died of Covid. One deportation officer, Brian Beliso, died of a heart attack in 2020 during a foot chase. The other deportation officer to die of something other than Covid, Lorenzo Roberto Gomez, experienced heat stress during a training exercise in El Paso, Texas, leading to hospitalization.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before a bank of television cameras in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night to blame the man who had been shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis that morning for his own death, claiming without evidence that he had intended "to kill law enforcement" and had been "brandishing" a weapon. Behind her stood the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, sending a silent message of unity.
Permanent-residency applications from more than seventy countries have been frozen, naturalization ceremonies cancelled. When spouses of U.S. citizens have shown up for routine green-card interviews, they've been arrested; others in the middle of applying for their legal status are getting detained and, in some cases, deported outright. The agency is beginning a sweeping campaign to denaturalize large numbers of citizens, aiming to strip them of their legal status; officials have monthly quotas for how many cases they must flag for review.