The US Keeps Trying, and Failing, to Deport a Former CIA Operative Back to Haiti

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant was supposed to board an ICE deportation flight along with 100 other Haitian nationals in what is the third such flight the Trump administration has carried out to Haiti in the last several weeks.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
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Emmanuel "Toto" Constant exercised his insurance clause as soon as he was apprehended in the Spring of 1995 in New York by the extant Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS), now a part of the Department of Homeland Security. The infamous leader of Haiti's Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH) had to flee his home country

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Another Front in Saudi War: Kingdom Deports Yemeni Workers to Face Starvation at “Home”

Eight out of the 10 Yemenis expelled from Saudi Arabia who were interviewed for this story told MintPress that they were beaten, deprived of food, had their personal property stolen, or faced sexual and physical abuse.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Displaced Yemenis, who fled their homes amid a deadly Saudi/UAE invasion of the port city of Hodeida, sit in a school allocated for IDPs in Sanaa, Yemen, Jun. 23, 2018. Hani Mohammed | AP

SANA’A, YEMEN -- Fifty-year-old Ali al-Za`ali grew up in Yemen’s Hajjah province. Around 30 years ago at the tender age of 20, al-Za`ali left Yemen, even then one of the most poverty-stricken countries on earth, to seek opportunity in neighboring oil-rich Saudi Arabia.  There he sent his modest earnings back to family members in Yemen. Al-Za`ali

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Trump’s War on Migrants Lands Toddlers in Court to Plead Their Cases Alone

Children as young as three-years-old are being forced to face judges in deportation hearings without their parents present, confirming that controversy has not hindered the U.S. immigrant enforcement regime.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Immigrant families line up to enter the central bus station after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sunday, June 24, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. David J. Phillip | AP

LOS ANGELES -- Children as young as three years old are being forced to hold their own in deportation proceedings in federal court, judges have reported, further confirming how the cruelties of the U.S. immigrant enforcement regime have been largely unhindered by the local and global controversy it’s provoked. The practice began under former

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The U.S. Has Been in the Business of Breaking Up Families For Years

ICE under Obama averaged 309,887 arrests per year from 2009-2012, while ICE under Trump averaged 139,553 in 2017.

Brian Sonenstein
By Brian Sonenstein
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CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein about a bill she introduced, which would prohibit the federal government from separating immigrant children from their families during arrests at ports of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States. As he asked his question, Tapper brought up a photo taken in 2014 of

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Israel Gives Ultimatum to African Asylum Seekers: Cash or Life in Prison

Israel is giving thousands of African asylum seekers 60 days to accept an offer to leave the country for an unnamed African destination in exchange for $3,500 and a plane ticket. Those who don’t will be incarcerated indefinitely.

Aron Heller
By Aron Heller
African migrants hold signs during a protest in front of Rwanda embassy in Herzeliya, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. African asylum seekers are protesting an Israeli plan to deport them.Israel says thousands of migrants have 60 days to accept an offer to leave the country for an unnamed African destination -- known to be Rwanda -- in exchange for $3,500 and a plane ticket. Those who don't by April 1 will be incarcerated indefinitely. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) — Thousands of African asylum seekers on Wednesday protested outside the Rwandan Embassy in Israel, calling on the African country not to cooperate with an Israeli plan to deport them. Israel has given thousands of migrants in the country until April 1 to accept an offer to leave for an unnamed African destination — widely

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Trump Administration Using ICE to Target Immigration Activists

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, multiple high-profile cases have surfaced where immigrants involved in community activism were deported or faced an increased threat of deportation.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Ravi Ragbir, center, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, walks with hundreds of supporters as he arrives for his annual check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, March 9, 2017, in New York. The Trinidadian immigrant works with an interfaith network of congregations and activists working to protect New York's immigrant families from detention and deportation. He was convicted of wire fraud in 2001 and served his sentence but has now been deported. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to be escalating its targeting of immigrant rights activists for deportation. Since President Donald Trump was inaugurated, there have been at least ten prominent cases where immigrants involved in community activism were deported or faced an increased threat of deportation. Ravi Ragbir, who is the

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