“The bystander videos I watched make it clear that ICE agents carried out another extrajudicial public execution in Maine,” Lauren Bonds, the executive director of the National Police Accountability Project, said in a statement.
“It’s clear that the only way to prevent ICE from killing us in the streets is to remove ICE from the streets.”
Congress can do so, she added, by freezing funding to the agency and limiting their jurisdiction…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/ulises-pena-lopez-ice-lawsuit-disabled/
Violent anti-immigrant mobilizations have, in recent years, become an annual summer occurrence in Northern Ireland. In August 2024, Belfast was one of many U.K. sites where the killing of three young girls at a dance class in Southampton, England, triggered widespread disorder. The man convicted was U.K.-born, to Rwandan immigrant parents. Then, in 2025, an alleged sexual assault of a girl in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, led to groups targeting ethnically Roma residents and, ultimately, driving hundreds from that town.
In each instance, influential far-right figures in the U.K. — and even some in the U.S., like billionaire Elon Musk, who has railed against demographic changes in both countries — seized upon crimes committed against white U.K. residents to amplify a broader message about mass expulsion of non-whites. On social media, particularly on Facebook, anti-immigrant networks also use these cases to organize on-street action…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/21/chicago-shootings-trump
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/can-we-make-the-protesters-look-more-violent/
President Donald Trump announced he was increasing the refugee cap for white South Africans because of "an unforeseen emergency refugee situation." He blamed the South African government for "recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence," but gave no specific information. .
South African Foreign Ministry spokesperson Chrispin Phiri said accusations of systemic persecution of Afrikaners were unfounded and that some beneficiaries of the refugee program have chosen to return to South Africa…
Spokesman Jaco Kleynhans said the organization didn't know about any "unforeseen emergency refugee situation" for Afrikaners but respected the autonomy of U.S. refugee policy...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/ice-immigration-oregon-facial-recognition
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/07/trump-jeffries-charge-inciting-violence-00909976
“Instead of politicizing the shooting, Republicans should look in the mirror first. If they were actually serious about public safety, they should allow a vote on the bipartisan legislation the Senate passed to re-open DHS,” Viet Shelton, a spokesperson for House Democrats’ campaign arm, said in a statement.
Democratic operatives working on battleground campaigns argued that Republicans were being hypocritical, pointing to Trump and GOP lawmakers who’ve mocked acts of political violence against Democrats and worked to rewrite the history of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. They also cited Trump’s suggestion last year that the actions of a half-dozen Democratic lawmakers who encouraged servicemembers not to follow illegal orders were “punishable by death.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/27/correspondents-dinner-political-violence-rhetoric-00892635
The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/israeli-settlers-driving-christians-out-west-bank
