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Hundreds of citizens gathered outside the Krome Detention Center in Miami on Saturday to protest overcrowding and reports of detainees lacking necessities. Protesters voiced opposition to President Trump’s aggressive deportation strategy and called out US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for its role in the crisis. Outrage intensified after reports revealed severe mistreatment of detainees [...]

Amnesty International urged the Mexican Senate on Friday to renew the Citizen Council of the National Search System, which has been vacant since May 2024. Amnesty International stated that: the Council’s inability to operate effectively hinders the right of people searching for victims of disappearance to participate in decision-making and overseeing the government’s plans and [...]

US District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday held Wednesday that the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” while denying a temporary injunction request to install air conditioning in the prisons. According to the court, “Texas has more than 130,000 people serving time in prisons, more than any state in the US. Only about a [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday it will terminate the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole programs, ending a key immigration pathway that will affect more than half a million people. The advance notice circulated on Friday explained that “neither urgent humanitarian reasons nor significant public benefit warrants the continued [...]

A jury in the US District Court for the District of Albuquerque convicted failed former New Mexico House of Representatives candidate Solomon Peña on Wednesday of charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of Democratic state and local lawmakers in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The shootings occurred between [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Wednesday urging Mexican authorities to conduct a “thorough” and “impartial” investigation into a possible mass killing site outside the city of Guadalajara, in Jalisco state. According to the report, a local search collective called the Jalisco Search Warriors on March 5 uncovered a remote ranch site where [...]

The slow, insidious dismantling of a free press is not a mere shift in media landscape; it’s a calculated assault on the very foundations of democracy. To understand this, we must recognize that a free press isn’t just about headlines and soundbites. It’s the lifeblood of an informed citizenry, the watchdog against tyranny, and the [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Aviva Chomsky, a historian, author, and activist whose work challenges dominant narratives about immigration, labor, and colonialism. Chomsky, a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University, has spent over 30 years engaged in Latin American solidarity and immigrant [...]

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a 2L Single JD student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Ontario. As President Trump’s Canadian tariffs take effect, students in the University of Windsor and Detroit Mercy Law School’s Dual JD program find themselves unexpectedly on the front lines of international trade policy. Trump’s controversial executive order, imposing [...]

Drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero pleaded not guilty in a Brooklyn court on Friday to charges related to his involvement in the 40-year-old killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. Caro Quintero was brought to federal court along with 28 other accused cartel members. He is facing charges for crimes committed as the [...]