In today\u2019s newsletter: The new US hardline policies have sparked widespread fear and controversy, as families, students, and tourists face arbitrary detentions and deportations<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Good morning. A student arrested in the street<\/a> for accusing Israel of genocide; a father of an autistic son, deported by mistake only for the authorities to say there was no way to bring him back; tourists held in solitary confinement with no explanation; and a scientist expelled for daring to be critical of Donald Trump. As the consequences of the White House\u2019s hardline immigration policies<\/a> unfold, they increasingly look like the behaviour of a police state.<\/p>\n \u201cThe lawlessness is the point,\u201d Greg Sargent wrote for the New Republic<\/a>: \u201cthese \u2018errors,\u2019 as you might have gathered by now, appear to be fully part of the design.\u201d But it is also true that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has been criticised for its treatment of immigrants for a long time.<\/p>\n Ukraine<\/strong><\/em> | Donald Trump has issued a rare rebuke<\/a> to Moscow for an air attack that killed 12 people in Kyiv, telling the Russian president in a social media post: \u201cVladimir, STOP!\u201d The US president\u2019s remarks come as he makes a renewed push to end the Ukraine war, reportedly on terms favourable to Russia.<\/p>\n UK news <\/strong><\/em>| Cyclists who kill pedestrians by dangerous cycling <\/a>could face life imprisonment in England and Wales under new amendments to the crime and policing bill.<\/p>\n World news <\/strong><\/em>| India\u2019s army chief was set to lead a high-level security review in Srinagar on Friday, days after militants opened fire on tourists in Indian-held Kashmir, killing 26 civilians in one of the worst such attacks in years<\/a>. The Indian Army has launched sweeping \u201csearch-and-destroy\u201d operations, deployed surveillance drones, and ramped up troop numbers across the Kashmir Valley. A manhunt is underway for three suspects \u2013 one Indian national and two Pakistanis.<\/p>\n Economy <\/strong><\/em>| Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen to the lowest level for more than a year <\/a>amid concern that Donald Trump\u2019s trade wars could further drive up living costs for British households.<\/p>\n Emergency services <\/strong><\/em>| Ambulance staff are facing \u201chorrendous\u201d levels of violent assault and abuse as incidents rise to the highest on record<\/a>, according to new data.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today\u2019s newsletter: The new US hardline policies have sparked widespread fear and controversy, as families, students, and tourists face arbitrary detentions and deportations Good morning. A student arrested in the street for accusing Israel of genocide; a father of an autistic son, deported by mistake only for the authorities to say there was no … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}