Thursday, February 12, 2026

ICE enforcement policy exists, but not followed : Analysis

 


Former ICE policy head Scott Schuchart says a reported drawdown in Minnesota may precede redeployments to other cities, noting agency had over 20,000 staff last year and is hiring thousands more.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Are Russia and China actually doing anything to support Cuba?

 


The Pentagon released footage of the ship being boarded in the Indian Ocean. The US Defence Dpartment says the vessel had defied President Trump's so-called 'quarantine of sanctioned ships in the Caribbean'. The tanker was one of several that fled the Venezuelan coast in early January, after the United States abducted the country's leader Nicolas Maduro. Meanwhile, the US is tightening its grip on Cuba's oil supplies, and the country is beginning to feel the adverse effects. Havana has warned that foreign airlines will no longer be able to refuel because of dwindling supplies. Some airlines have already suspended flights to Cuba. Meanwhile, the UN is warning of a humanitarian crisis.

Monday, February 9, 2026

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Scores of police charge Sydney protesters attempting to march against Isaac Herzog visit

 


Onlookers filmed a huge line of New South Wales police charging at protesters opposed to a visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog. The footage was taken after demonstrators had attempted to negotiate with officers over the right to march despite state laws passed in the wake of the Bondi terror attack preventing such protests

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Revealed: Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank

 Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv

On the morning of 21 January, Israeli authorities left eight Palestinian men at a West Bank checkpoint. Disoriented and cold, they were dressed in prison-issued tracksuits and carried their few belongings in plastic bags.

Hours earlier, they had been sitting with their wrists and ankles shackled on the plush leather seats of a private jet owned by the Florida property tycoon Gil Dezer, a longtime business partner of Donald Trump.

A Guardian investigation has established the flight was part of a secretive and politically sensitive US government operation to deport Palestinians arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

One of those deported on the January flight was Maher Awad, a 24-year-old originally from the West Bank, who had lived in the US for nearly a decade. Speaking to the Guardian in the town of Rammun, Maher shared photos of his girlfriend and newborn son in Michigan.

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