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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
DEMOCRATS in the US Congress confronted the White House on Thursday over a wave of festive-season deportations of Central American immigrants.
Representative Luis Gutierrez said that the crackdown risked undoing all the goodwill President Barack Obama had built up through a moratorium on deportations in recent years.
“In the Hispanic caucus there’s a real sense of outrage,” Mr Gutierrez said.
Trade unions and community groups are mobilising to push back against Trump’s racist raids after new revelations of spying on legal protesters. MARK GRUENBERG reports from the US state of Minnesota
On the 121st anniversary of communist Claudia Jones’s birth ROGER McKENZIE looks at political events that shaped her, and those she helped shape
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG