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  • Hackers Expose Deportation Flight Secrets—Including Transfers to El Salvador’s Notorious CECOT Prison

    Hackers Expose Deportation Flight Secrets—Including Transfers to El Salvador’s Notorious CECOT Prison

    A recent cyberattack on GlobalX, the airline contracted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation flights—known as “ICE Air”—has uncovered shocking details that reverberate far beyond U.S. borders. Hackers affiliated with Anonymous penetrated the airline’s systems and retrieved internal documents, including passenger manifests from multiple deportation flights. Among those listed was Ricardo…

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  • United States: Trump administration offers illegal immigrants $1,000 to “self-deport”

    United States: Trump administration offers illegal immigrants $1,000 to “self-deport”

    Paying immigrants to leave the United States. This is just the latest step in Donald Trump’s mass deportations plan.  The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will offer $1,000 to migrants who are in the US illegally, if they decide to leave the country.  The American government will also pay for migrants’ travel assistance…

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  • 🇺🇬UN judge jailed for keeping housekeeper as slave

    🇺🇬UN judge jailed for keeping housekeeper as slave

    A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months for forcing a woman to work as a domestic slave. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford when police discovered she had a young Ugandan woman at her home carrying out unpaid work as…

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  • Algeria expels over 1,800 migrants to Niger in mass deportation

    Algeria expels over 1,800 migrants to Niger in mass deportation

    Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the Nigerien border in a record expulsion earlier this month, a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday. Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero” after being apprehended in…

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  • Republicans accuse Catholic Charities of breaking the law in its border response

    Republicans accuse Catholic Charities of breaking the law in its border response

    Catholic Charities USA officials pushed back strongly against allegations from Republican House of Representatives members that its humanitarian responses to the U.S. border crisis were potentially criminal acts. In a statement released on Dec. 15, C.C.U.S.A. said those accusations were “both fallacious and factually inaccurate. Our life-saving humanitarian work neither violates federal laws nor endangers…

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  • Republican Split on H-1B Skilled Workers?

    Republican Split on H-1B Skilled Workers?

    The BBC reports that Vivek Ramaswamy, tapped by President-Elect Trump to slash government spending, claimed American culture is to blame for employers hiring skilled foreign workers through the H-1B temporary worker visas. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence,” Ramaswamy wrote in a long X post that argued that foreign workers improve the US economy. …

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  • Lebanon TPS

    U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Federal Register notice designating Lebanon for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Lebanese nationals continuously residing in the U.S. since 16.Oct.24 & physically present in the U.S. since 27.Nov.24 can apply if otherwise eligible. Read our overview of TPS.

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  • Trumps Mass Deportation

    Trumps Mass Deportation

    TRUMP’S AGENDA Pushing people out Imagine the population of Chicago. Then quadruple it. That’s about how many unauthorized immigrants Donald Trump hopes to remove from the country: 11 million people in all. It won’t be easy. How will the government find all of these people? Where will they be held as officials process their cases?…

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  • 🇪🇬 Egypt hosts 1.2 million Sudanese, with ‘hundreds’ arriving daily: UN

    🇪🇬 Egypt hosts 1.2 million Sudanese, with ‘hundreds’ arriving daily: UN

    Hundreds of people fleeing war-torn Sudan arrive in neighbouring Egypt every day, a UN official said Sunday, adding to more than 1.2 million who have found refuge there, according to official figures. The war between rival Sudanese generals since April 2023 has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than 11 million, with…

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  • Surge of refugees fleeing Sudan violence strains neighbouring Chad

    Surge of refugees fleeing Sudan violence strains neighbouring Chad

    In a sign of worsening conflict, nearly three million people are fleeing Sudan after 18 months of war, most of whom are women and children. The UN warned that in the first week of October alone, 25,000 people fled to neighbouring Chad. War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under the country’s…

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