Tag: Rubio

A Sophies Choice for ILMAR ABREGO GARCIA: Deportation or Worse Deportation

August 25, 2025

By Melanie Nathan, AUG 25, 2025 Ilmar Abrego Garcia Faces Deportation to Uganda After Wrongful Imprisonment: Now, instead of receiving restitution or acknowledgment of this mistake, Abrego Garcia is presented with a cruel ultimatum by the U.S. …. READ the Ugandan Human Rights Report below…. Ilmar Abrego Garcia, a man wrongfully deported and imprisoned in … More A Sophies Choice for ILMAR ABREGO GARCIA: Deportation or Worse Deportation

The Year Women Disappeared: Trump and Rubio’s Assault on Human Rights Reporting

August 24, 2025

By Melanie Nathan, August 24, 2025 The U.S. State Department’s Human Rights Reports began in 1977, mandated by legislation passed the year before. For nearly half a century, they have provided an unbroken, year-by-year account of human rights conditions across the globe. Published annually, usually in the spring, they have become an indispensable reference for … More The Year Women Disappeared: Trump and Rubio’s Assault on Human Rights Reporting

Trump Regime Fails to Adhere to Annual Human Rights Reporting

June 17, 2025

by Melanie Nathan, June 18, 2025. As mandated by Congress, every year since 1977, the State Department’s dedicated public servants in U.S. missions abroad and in Washington scrupulously examine, track, and document the state of human rights in nearly 200 countries and territories around the world. The Trump Rubio State Department (Bureau of Democracy, Human … More Trump Regime Fails to Adhere to Annual Human Rights Reporting

Trump Rubio Noem will be complicit in Torture of they Send People to Libya

May 7, 2025

A U.S. judge said any effort by the Trump administration to deport migrants to Libya would clearly violate a prior court order barring officials from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own without first weighing whether they risk persecution or torture if sent there. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an order, opens new tab restricting their … More Trump Rubio Noem will be complicit in Torture of they Send People to Libya

U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports Bring New QUESTIONS

April 23, 2025

BY MELANIE NATHAN, April 23, 2025, 11.02 am EST. Surprise surprise….. no upload of 2024 U.S. State Department Human Rights Country Reports – The screenshot below shows past dates when they were uploaded to the State department webpage. We expected the 2024 report by today and that would have been late. Nothing yet. These would … More U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports Bring New QUESTIONS

AMERICAN SLAUGHTER OF 19 CHILDREN REFLECTS CHILLING HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD

May 26, 2022

Here we are in the United States fighting to open pipelines for refugees and asylum seekers escaping violence around the world, while our own children in the United States do NOT have the basic human right to a safe day at school, without turning up in a body bag. How can any human rights organization, … More AMERICAN SLAUGHTER OF 19 CHILDREN REFLECTS CHILLING HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD

Rubio staffer tries to have GetEQUAL DREAMer deported

June 25, 2013

Rubio staffer told the police officers in the room that one of the people in the room “is here illegally.” By Cathy Kristofferson, June 25, 2013 Today during the GetEQUAL action Senator Rubio’s (R-FL) Tampa office, a Rubio senior staffer – his Regional Director – tried to have GetEQUAL’s Co-Director Felipe Sousa-Rodriguez deported.  The Rubio staffer … More Rubio staffer tries to have GetEQUAL DREAMer deported