Aneesa A. Baboolal, PhD

St Lucian fishermen believed killed by recent US boat strike An unconfirmed number of St Lucian fishermen are believed to have been killed in a recent lethal US boat strike in Caribbean waters, the latest in an expanding American military

[St Lucian Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre confirmed that “people had lost their lives”, but clarified that he had received no official notification on these circumstances to date.. burnt hulls of at least two fishing vessels had surfaced off St Lucia over the weekend, following US strikes]

[Even if ICE leaves tomorrow, the long threads of what has happened here will reverberate. These kids will remember. The families torn apart will never be the same. The people hiding out at home – when will they feel enough trust to leave again? I don’t know how you unwind this.]

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

As A Veteran Combat Soldier, I've Noticed 1 Especially Sinister Thing About ICE That Needs To Be Called Out "When armed agents operate beyond the reach of law, they are no longer public servants. They are something else entirely."

[As a combat soldier, I recognize a mission when I see one — not because it’s announced, but because it’s being carried out. ICE and Border Patrol operations in Minneapolis have resulted in the deaths of two Minnesotans...Either this is their mission — or they are operating outside accountability]

If you think they’re building more detention facilities, increasing mass surveillance, and growing the size of ICE just to deport undocumented immigrants, then you haven’t been paying attention.

Continuing to fund ICE is enabling what we all know is coming next.

ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America ICE has a plan to install its mass detention centers in small towns across the country.

[ICE plans to use up to 23 warehouses around the country to detain immigrants in even more cities, including in Minnesota, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. ]

Is the U.S. running a concentration camp system? - Salon.com According to journalist Andrea Pitzer, the mass incarceration of civilians outside of the law is a clear sign

According to journalist Andrea Pitzer, the mass incarceration of civilians outside of the law is a clear sign.

You’ll feel less confused if you admit to yourself that some people don’t care about the suffering of others, and some people like it.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.

[DHH began packing groceries when the immigration operation started back in December. They had families register if they needed groceries delivered. In the first day, 2,000 families registered. Now, they have more than 24,000 families registered and there is a waitlist.]

Gender studies on the ground in Minnesota.

This Isn’t the First Killing by ICE — and It Won’t Be the Last ICE shot a woman point-blank in Minneapolis. The agency’s raids and impunity were always going to lead to death.

"The Minnesota slaughter is not so much a first, but particularly shocking for being captured on video."

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.

Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026 Immigration officials have reportedly issued guidance setting a quota of 100 to 200 denaturalization cases a month.

So much for that whole false narrative about only "criminal illegals"...

@soinformed.bsky.social

From Chicago To LA, Neighborly Solidarity Fuels Resistance To ICE Volunteer patrols, mutual aid efforts and immigrant defenders are driving the anti-fascist movement against ICE and countering the “crime-ridden” fear narratives about their cities.

[“’There’s not a day that goes by where you don’t feel that human suffering in our communities, and at the same time, I’ve seen communities organize here in ways that I haven’t seen in all my years of organizing"]

The US strategy unveiled When the chips fall, we will not have the excuse of saying we were not warned or had been fooled. In its ambition for world domination, the Trump administration is

[Instead of the region being under the dominion of multiple hegemonic European powers, the objective is to bring the entire hemisphere under the single hegemony of the United States]

Tracking American drug-boat strikes off Venezuela’s coast Are smugglers or Nicolás Maduro’s regime the target?

The Economist's tracker for Trump's war preparations in the Caribbean. www.economist.com/interactive/...

“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”

‘Disgusting,’ ‘horrified,’ ‘inhumane’: How Massachusetts residents feel about ICE - The Boston Globe Most Massachusetts voters don’t feel too kindly about ICE, using words like “disgusting” and “anger” to describe their views. But some people applaud the intensified enforcement action.

‘Disgusting,’ ‘horrified,’ ‘inhumane’: How Massachusetts residents feel about ICE

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Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown Records reviewed by the AP show that few of those arrested have criminal histories beyond traffic violations.

“It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis.

[Losada, in the radio clip (cited by US Department of War contacts), said, “American military forces have installed an AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR system in Trinidad and Tobago. The surveillance system primarily functions as aerial surveillance but officials say it can be used in US conflict with Venezuela.”]

I think people think I’m joking when they ask what they can do to support my career and I say literally download my research. And teach/cite it. Or send it to someone who can.

It’s truly a major one.

Let’s be serious… citations are currency…

Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.

Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐

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ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

Some 600 immigrant kids have been sent to federal custody by ICE this year.

A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.

Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.