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Guantánamo: Decades of Detentions
On January 29th, newly installed Pres. Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: “I hereby direct the Secretary of ...
Memo shows U.S. can send migrants without criminal records to Guantanamo, despite Trump's promise to hold "the worst" there
A government memo obtained by CBS News shows the Trump administration created broad rules outlining which migrants can be ...
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Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Supreme Court, El Salvador Renditions, Mass Deportation
El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court; Evidence points to little criminality among those rushed to El Salvador’s ...
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'Race Against Terror': CNN's Jake Tapper Details the Extraordinary Investigation into an Al-Qaida Fighter's Murder of US Troops in Combat
In 2011, Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun boarded the Excelsior, a cruise ship filled with refugees fleeing Libya ... to the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, but that effort was challenging.
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“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
In fact, staff members said they had just launched a review into Trump’s increased use of Guantanamo Bay to detain migrants, an inquiry which now appears to have vanished. In New Mexico ...
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Africa’s refugee camps are plagued by flooding: we looked into drainage systems that can withstand local conditions
We built a few different sustainable drainage system models in a laboratory, simulating conditions found in the Lietchuor refugee camp in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. Our research found that ...
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Can one of Africa’s largest refugee camps evolve into a city?
It became one of Africa’s most famous refugee camps by accident as people escaping calamity in countries like South Sudan, Ethiopia and Congo poured in. More than three decades after its first ...
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One of Africa’s largest refugee camps redesignated as a city by Kenyan government
It became one of Africa’s most famous refugee camps by accident as people escaping calamity in countries like South Sudan, Ethiopia and Congo poured in. More than three decades after its first ...