Articles Tagged with sanctuary cities

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held on Thursday that Italy violated applicant residents’ rights to life and respect for private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a result of the state’s long-term inaction in addressing the widespread illegal dumping of waste by organized criminal groups in the [...]

Germany’s parliament passed a motion for stricter migration rules on Wednesday. The nonbinding motion, backed by the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), calls for permanent border control, rejection of all undocumented immigrants, and detention of “those who must leave.” It was passed with 348 votes in favor and 344 votes against. The motion described [...]

Human Rights Watch urged Kazakhstan to implement the recommendations from member states at the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review on Thursday. With 103 state delegates, the UN Human Rights Council made 294 recommendations on a variety of topics. These human rights concerns include various basic human rights provided by the International Covenant on [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday dropped the criminal proceedings against Trump’s co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera, in the classified documents case initiated by former special counsel Jack Smith. The appeals court must still approve the Justice Department’s request for the appeal to be officially terminated. The [...]

A class of consumers sued Amazon.com, Inc. on Wednesday, claiming the technology company secretly tracked and sold their sensitive data without their consent. Plaintiff Felix Kolotinsky brought the class action lawsuit with a demand for a jury trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California San Francisco Division on behalf of [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on the new Lebanese government to adopt a human rights-oriented agenda that promotes the rule of law, transparency and accountability. The organization urged the government to implement legal reforms across various sectors to meet the needs of the people and build a brighter future for the country. In [...]

In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing so-called “patriotic education.” Under the auspices of combatting “radical indoctrination” in primary and secondary schools, the order aims to restrict curricular content on the [...]

US President Donald Trump laid out plans on Thursday to combat what he described as an “explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets” in recent months. The announcement came on the heels of an executive order, issued Wednesday, on measures the administration planned to take to protect American Jews. As has become [...]

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act (the “Act”) into law Wednesday, which will require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States and have been charged with, or arrested for, burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. This is the first piece of legislation that President Trump has [...]

A federal judge sentenced Bob Menendez, the former US senator for New Jersey, to 11 years in prison Wednesday. Additionally, he must forfeit over $900,000. Menendez was found guilty last year on 16 counts, including bribery, corruption, and conspiracy to act as a foreign agent, after receiving more than $500,000 in cash, $100,000 in gold [...]