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Volunteers Defy Drone Dangers to Evacuate People from Kramatorsk

Today, I joined evacuation volunteer Julia Nezlamna and others to get people from the frontline Ukrainian cities of Sloviansk ...
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ICE Flight Monitor: February 2026 Report

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, that are legally ...
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ICE Flight Monitor: ICE Air Flights Continue to Expand in February 2026 as Trump Administration Escalates Mass Deportation Campaign

ICE Air Operations continued its rapid expansion in February 2026, with new charter carriers and record daily domestic ...
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Holds Public Hearing on the Impact of the United States’s Forced Deportations to Third Countries

A coalition of 22 immigrants’ rights organizations participated today in a public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as part of the IACHR’s 195th session held in ...
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U.S. Global Magnitsky and Related Sanctions

End of Year Update This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the U.S. government’s use of its targeted human rights and anticorruption sanctions programs from July 1, 2025 to ...
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New ICE Flight Monitor Report Shows Avelo Airlines Flew Nearly One in Five ICE Flights as part of Massive Expansion of ICE Domestic Transfer and Deportation Flights

Washington D.C. — A new report from Human Rights First’s ICE Flight Monitor reveals the unprecedented scale, scope, and secrecy of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign during its first ...
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ICE Flight Monitor: December 2025 Monthly Report

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, that are legally ...
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Stop Enabling ICE’s Dangerous Detention and Reckless Deportation Drive Oppose Additional Funding in the FY2026 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill

Congress is poised to further balloon the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) already bloated budget, expanding ICE’s sprawling detention apparatus at a time of record deaths in detention. The ...