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Farmworkers harvest corn in a field. Much of U.S. agriculture, including Idaho’s dairy industry, relies on immigrant labor. Hill Street Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images

In deep‑red Idaho, even Republicans break with Trump on farm labor

A statewide survey finds majorities in farm country at odds with the deportation push reshaping their workforce.
Security personnel approach a plane carrying migrants from Central Asia and India, deported from the United States, at Juan Santamaría International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, in February 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)

‘The farther away, the better’ is the problematic logic behind U.S. third‑country deportations

The U.S. strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Global South countries is abhorrent. Migration scholars, human rights organizations and allies must co-ordinate, organize and actively resist.
A Kinney County sheriff’s deputy arrests an undocumented immigrant who was pulled over in March 2023 in Brackettville, Texas. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety

History shows that building the trust of immigrants is an effective tactic in combating local crime and making entire communities safer.
Undocumented Haitians detained by immigration officials in the Dominican Republic (DR) stand inside a police vehicle in the community of Dajabon in May 2024. Racial profiling is a key aspect of deportations in the DR. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The Dominican Republic’s expulsion of thousands of Haitians shows the brutality of mass deportations

As the US president-elect prepares to deliver on his promise of mass deportations, it is urgent to examine the situation in the DR, the most significant case of ongoing forced returns in the Americas.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, meets with El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele in El Congo, El Salvador, on Feb. 3, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP via Getty Images

Trump wants to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th‑century law has been invoked only during times of war

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.
Ukrainian advances have retaken some territory from Russia, but much is still under foreign control. AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov

Russia’s harsh purge against alleged ‘Nazis’ in occupied Ukraine follows Soviet playbook for rooting out real Nazis from Germany after WWII

Russian actions in occupied Ukraine are following a plan modeled on how the Soviet Union dismantled Nazi influence in Germany after World War II – including arrests and revised school lessons.

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