‘We need to get out of here’: Trump’s immigration crackdown is quietly reshaping where immigrants live in America 

Under the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, many are deciding to hide in place, while others are self-deporting. But there’s also anecdotal evidence that people are relocating, from cities with aggressive immigration enforcement to places with fewer raids, where they feel safer.

NPR

Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’

It’s impossible to say just how many Chicagoans have experienced what experts say constitutes racial profiling since the immigration crackdown began. The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly denied that it targets people based on race and said it’s going after the “worst of the worst.” But dozens of reports and videos have circulated in the past couple months — many affecting those working at manual labor jobs. 

Chicago Tribune

Border Patrol operations start in Charlotte as officials urge calm

DHS says the surge is meant to target public-safety threats, but Charlotte leaders warn the federal operation is heightening fear.

NBC News

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts

The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

ProPublica

At Trump’s urging, Bondi says US will investigate Epstein’s ties to Clinton and other political foes

Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years, didn’t explain what supposed crimes he wanted the Justice Department to investigate.

TMJ4

U.S. official says the ‘table is being set’ for possible military action against Venezuela

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, will arrive in the northern Caribbean on Sunday as tensions with Venezuela grow, according to a U.S. military official. The carrier will join 15,000 service members, including 2,000 Marines aboard an amphibious assault ship.

NPR

When the Government Doesn’t Want You Reporting on ICE

A conversation with Chicago Tribune reporter Laura Rodríguez Presa about covering ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ and staying rooted in community

Pressing Issues

Between success and suspicion: In US and Germany, Muslims meet the moment

The fate of Muslims in two leading Western democracies could not seem to be more different, with one country appearing to welcome more political integration for Muslims and the other restricting what is acceptable. But a deeper look reveals that Muslim “success” stories in the U.S. are often a matter of interpretation, obscuring ongoing and significant challenges. Meanwhile, the negative narrative in Germany misses profound, albeit uneven, progress.

Religion News Service

Democracy strikes back: or, how we’re not cooked yet

So while I could talk on and on about this administration’s contempt for the people it governs, I’d much rather shift the discussion to what, exactly, happened last week on Tuesday, and what it means for democracy in the United States a year since Trump won again.

Delving Deeper

Naturalized US citizens thought they were safe. Trump’s immigration policies are shaking that belief

“When I raised my hand and took the oath of allegiance, I did believe that moment the promise that I belonged,” said Sesay, 48, who first arrived in Louisiana more than 15 years ago and now works as an advocate for refugees and their integration into American society.

TMJ4

Trump’s border czar rebukes US bishops over immigration stance

“We’re going to enforce the law and by doing that we save a lot of lives,” he said. “I wish the Catholic Church would understand that.” He added that ICE was “sending a message to the whole world”.

The Catholic Herald

Justice Department quietly replaced ‘identical’ Trump signatures on recent pardons

The questions about Trump’s signature come amid a new flurry of clemency and weeks after the president claimed to not even know Changpeng Zhao, a crypto billionaire he pardoned last month. He said in an interview with 60 Minutes that the case had been “a Biden witch hunt.”

AP News

More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they’re buying guns out of fear

“What I’m talking about is protecting myself from a situation where there may be some kind of civil unrest,” says Charles. Like most people who spoke with NPR for this story, he asked that his last name not be used for fear of retribution.

NPR

Trump Is Turning the Screws on Vets So the Rich Can Get Richer

The president claims his administration’s cuts to the VA and care for veterans is due to fraud — despite a lack of real evidence

Rolling Stone

Hundreds of thousands rally in Manila against flood-control corruption scandal

Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in the capital in the largest rally so far to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated powerful members of Congress and top government officials.

NPR

Bible described as the ‘Mona Lisa of illuminated manuscripts’ goes on display in Rome

A 15th-century Bible which is considered one of the most spectacular examples of Renaissance illuminated manuscripts went on display in Rome on Thursday as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations.

Religion News Service

Communist and far-right politicians battle for Chile’s presidency in election dominated by crime and immigration

As the country grapples with growing crime rates, surging immigration and discontent with the policies of the leftist President Gabriel Boric, some analysts expect voters to choose a different direction for the South American nation. But just howdifferent remains unclear.

CNN

Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous Canadians as “concrete sign of dialogue, respect and fraternity”

Pope Leo XIV gave the artifacts, including an iconic Inuit kayak, and supporting documentation to a delegation of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops during an audience. According to a joint statement from the Vatican and Canadian church, the pieces were a gift and a “concrete sign of dialogue, respect and fraternity.”

CBS News

Global Rush for Copper Hits the Amazon

Wealthy nations’ surging appetite for metals has fueled a flurry of plans to mine in wilderness around the world, including on the edge of the Amazon Basin.

Inside Climate News

‘No turning back’: More and more Ukrainian women join the army to fight Russia

Mytsiuk said the Ukrainian military has become much more receptive to women since the early days of the full-scale invasion, when Ukrainian men were lining up at recruitment centers to become soldiers.

NPR

Over 60,000 women sign a letter in support of trans women & calling out “false feminism”

Over 60,000 women have already signed on to an open letter in support of trans people in the United Kingdom. The letter is targeted to media groups and politicians at a time when anti-trans rhetoric in the country often suggests that trans women take away the rights of cis women.

“We reject – completely and categorically – the active discrimination and exclusion of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people,” the letter reads. “Those who continue to target this minority group do not speak for us or represent our interests. They never have. They never will.”

LGBTQ Nation

Pope Leo XIV set to dine with trans activists during Sunday’s Jubilee for the Poor

The annual event coincides with the World Day of the Poor and includes Mass in St Peter’s Basilica followed by a communal meal for people who are homeless, vulnerable, or socially marginalised.

The Pink News

What does ‘pro-life’ mean? There’s no one answer – even for advocacy groups that oppose abortion

“Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” he said. “And someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

The Conversation

‘We have no choice’: Indigenous guards take on cocaine gangs in Peru’s Amazon

The number of hectares of coca in the South American nation rose from nearly 43,000 (106,255 acres) in 2013 to nearly 90,000 (more than 222,000 acres) in 2024. The country now produces an estimated 850 tons of cocaine a year, production fueled by the global demand for the drug, including in the world’s largest consumer market, the United States.

NPR

Are EU–CELAC Summits obsolete?

The growing absences and divisions on both sides of the Atlantic cast doubt on whether the EU–CELAC summits remain a useful instrument for bi-regional cooperation.

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Israeli survivors of Kristallnacht mark 87th anniversary of Nazi riots amid rising antisemitism

The Nov. 9, 1938, attack was a stark turning point in the escalating persecution that led to the killing of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis and their supporters during the Holocaust.

Religion News Service

Israeli leader insists there can be no Palestinian state, ahead of UN vote leaving that door open

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state, a day before the U.N. Security Council planned to vote on a U.S.-drafted resolution on Gaza that leaves the door open to Palestinian independence.

Stars and Stripes