Middle-class Democrats are slowly grasping–way too slowly–that they have created a monster that will eventually eat them up. That monster runs on two legs: an education system that churns out miseducated radicals and an immigration system that imports uneducated third-world radicals. This to me is the difference between a political party and a cult. pic.twitter.com/vcyFtoY9Bl...
The Los Angeles Dodgers say they blocked federal agents from entering their stadium on Thursday, as protests against immigration enforcement continue in the city. In a post on social media, the baseball team said “ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots”, and were subsequently turned away. Los Angeles...
Ali Abbas Ahmadi & Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Watch: Moment US Senator forcibly removed from Noem press conference Democratic US Senator Alex Padilla has been forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles. Noem was offering the latest figures on immigration enforcement in the area, which...
Is this a TACO moment, or Trump going somewhere he always intended? TACO, as you know, is the Democratic Party acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” implying that all Trump’s zigs and zags on things like tariffs are evidence that their Nazi authoritarian self-proclaimed king is actually a paper tiger who talks big and chickens...
The BBC’s Carl Nasman in Los Angeles explains how an increase in immigration raids as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort has sparked protests in cities across the US. After some turned violent, President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops as well as hundreds of US Marines to LA to maintain...
Demonstrators in a number of other US cities have joined Los Angeles in protesting over raids by immigration authorities under US President Donald Trump. Protesters were filmed on Monday in cities including Boston, Houston and Philadelphia, as demonstrations entered their fourth day in Los Angeles. Trump sent another 2,000 National Guard troops to LA –...
US President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen in Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants. His border czar, Tom Homan, told Fox News on Saturday: “We are making Los Angeles safer.” The Californian city saw a second day of unrest on Saturday as residents of a predominantly Latino district...
US riot police and protesters clashed in downtown Los Angeles following federal immigration raids across the city in which dozens of people were reportedly taken into custody. A Homeland Security Investigation Spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times that federal agents were executing search warrants related to the harbouring of people illegally in the country. Security...
The front page of the Times reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to set out a “winter fuel U-turn” in her spending review on 11 June. It says the payment will be restored and then clawed back “from millions of better-off pensioners through higher tax bills”. The paper also features an image of Queen...
BBC Think, Denmark. Images of sleek, impossibly chic Copenhagen, the capital, might spring to mind. As well as a sense of a liberal, open society. That is the Scandinavian cliché. But when it comes to migration, Denmark has taken a dramatically different turn. The country is now “a pioneer in restrictive migration policies” in Europe,...
Boulder Police Department Mr Soliman allegedly told police that he wanted to kill all Zionists and targeted the group Immigration authorities have arrested the wife and children of the man suspected of carrying out Sunday’s attack in Boulder, Colorado, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Tuesday. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, has been charged...
Louisiana isn’t just passing bad policy. It’s laying bricks in a pathway toward fascism — and elected officials are doing it in broad daylight. This legislative session, lawmakers in Baton Rouge have been advancing a uniquely harsh combination of anti-immigrant bills. As someone who organizes at the intersections of immigrant justice, racial equity and decarceration,...
Anna Varle South West health correspondent BBC Sumedha Aryaratne moved to Devon with his family to work in domiciliary care Overseas people working in adult social care have said they are “afraid” about proposed changes aimed at making it harder for international workers to remain in the UK. Currently carers gain the right to live...
Each year, thousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea in the hope of finding refuge in Europe. And each year, European countries use every tool in their arsenal to keep those migrants out of their borders – from bureaucratic processes to militarization, and now, increasingly, through outsourcing the control of the border itself....
Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. A federal judge ordered the release of Mr Suri, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa. An...