This statement was presented to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. To view all of the rally speeches, visit wsws.org/mayday.
Buoyed by bipartisan support, corporate profits and immigrant prisons soar in US Midwest
The Trump administration has continued Biden’s policy of integrating the private prison industry into deportation operations, granting massive contracts to the GEO Group and CoreCivic.
Stephen St. Clair•
UK’s Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers hosts David Brotherton for talk on the “United States of Deportation”
Brotherton has appeared in over 200 immigration removal hearings as an expert witness, nearly all CAT [Convention Against Torture] cases, he explained, “So they hate my guts”.
Thomas Scripps•
Labour “left” refuse to fight Starmer after his anti-migrant “island of strangers” speech
Responding to Starmer, Corbyn again confined himself strictly to suggestions of what Labour should be doing, while offering no means of opposing what it is actually doing.
Robert Stevens, Chris Marsden•
DHS agents imprison Guatemalan mother at hospital during labor and birth, provoking public outcry
Erika Mateo, a 24-year-old pregnant Guatemalan woman, was taken into custody and held under armed guard by the Department of Homeland Security and placed under expedited removal. After giving birth, she was transferred to ICE custody and denied access to her attorney, family and friends.
Liz Cabrera, Katy Kinner•
Andy Thompson•
Chase Lawrence•
Robert Stevens•
Jacob Crosse•
Luis Marquez, Marc Wells•