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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Video of flag vendor beating in Bangladesh falsely shared as incident in India
A video of a vendor selling Bangladeshi flags being beaten up by a uniformed man has circulated in social media posts that falsely claim the incident took place in India's West Bengal state. The clip has in fact circulated in Bangladeshi media reports about a flag seller who was beaten by a soldier during a football match in the capital Dhaka on June 10, 2025. The 12-second clip of a uniformed man hitting another man carrying a bundle of flags was shared on Facebook on June 15, with the Hindi-language caption praising an Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier for the "treatment given to a Bangladeshi flag seller in West Bengal". "There should be restrictive action against traitors who live in India and hoist the flags of enemy nations Pakistan, Bangladesh and Palestine. Action should also be taken against those who make and sell these flags," adds the caption. The clip surfaced on Facebook and X as India deported hundreds of people to Bangladesh without trial, officials on both sides said, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling (archived link). New Delhi says the people deported are undocumented migrants. However, the move has triggered fear among India's estimated 200 million Muslims, especially among speakers of Bengali, a widely spoken language in both eastern India and Bangladesh. Bangladesh, largely encircled by land by India, has seen relations with New Delhi turn icy since a mass uprising in 2024 toppled Dhaka's government that was led by Sheikh Hasina, an Indian ally. However, the clip was filmed in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, not India. A reverse image search on Google using keyframes from clip found it used in a news report published on the verified YouTube channel of Bangladeshi news portal Dhaka Post on June 12, 2025 (archived link). The Bengali-language report is titled, "Army gifts 100,000 Bangladeshi Taka (US$824) to a flag seller injured in baton charge". The report states the Bangladeshi army compensated the flag seller after he was hit by a soldier who was attempting to control crowds during a football match between Bangladesh and Singapore on June 10. The same video was also used by Bangladeshi media outlet News1 TV in its report about the flag seller's compensation, while another local outlet Jugantor reported the beating took place as soldiers tried to push back crowds -- some without tickets -- who tried to rush the gates of the stadium (archived links here and here). The army described it as an "unintentional and isolated incident", the reports added.
Washington Post
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Supreme Court refuses to allow Florida to enforce immigration law
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow Florida officials to enforce a state law that imposes harsh criminal penalties on undocumented migrants for entering the state. The case, brought by immigrant advocacy groups, raises questions about whether and how states can police illegal immigration. The challengers say the law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in February, illegally supersedes the federal government's power over immigration enforcement.
ABC News
08-07-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Guam survivors excluded from nuclear compensation act
US president Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is tipped to have far-reaching consequences on the US - some of which will extend to the Pacific. Among its transformations will be to remove incentives for undocumented migrants and walk back climate change measures by making it easier to lease public land for drilling and mining projects. Some people on Guam meanwhile have been left heartbroken that the bill excludes them from the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Pacific Association for Radiation Survivors Robert Celestial said Guamanians exposed to radiation caused from US nuclear testing in the Pacific, won't be eligible for financial benefits from the government.
Malay Mail
05-07-2025
- Malay Mail
Immigration Dept arrests over 1,000 employers for hiring, harbouring undocumented migrants this year
KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The Immigration Department (JIM) has detained 1,005 employers for allegedly hiring or harbouring undocumented migrants between January 1 and July 3 this year. JIM director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban said the arrests involved employers from various sectors, including restaurants, factories and retail shops, with most of them being locals found sheltering foreign nationals without valid documents. 'As of July, we've achieved 70 per cent of our Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and I'm confident we'll exceed our target by year-end,' he told reporters at the IMI KL Run and Customer Engagement Day held here today. Also present was Kuala Lumpur Immigration director Wan Mohammed Saupee Wan Yusoff. During the same period, JIM conducted 6,913 nationwide operations, screening 97,322 foreign nationals and arresting 26,320 individuals for suspected immigration offences. Zakaria said enforcement would continue to be intensified, with no compromise on undocumented migrants. The department is also monitoring over 200 identified hotspots across the country, including remote and rural areas. He added that public outreach events like today's programme, which drew over 800 participants, would be continued to strengthen public engagement. The IMI KL Run featured two categories, namely five kilometres (km) and 10 km, around the Kuala Lumpur Immigration Office. — Bernama
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Almost half of Americans disapprove of Florida's ‘Alligator Alcatraz', new poll shows
A new poll has found that almost half of Americans disapprove of the new 'Alligator Alcatraz' set up in the Florida Everglades to house undocumented migrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In all, 48 percent of the 2,983 people who responded to the YouGov survey on Thursday said they were not in favor of the facility while just 33 percent said they supported it, with another 18 percent unsure. While Republicans and Democrats were largely split along party lines, just 26 percent of respondents who identified themselves as independent voters said they backed the idea while 53 percent were against it. Another noteworthy finding from YouGov's poll was the revelation that 47 percent of Americans believe detainees are being treated too severely by ICE while 23 percent said they were being treated appropriately, 10 percent they were not being treated harshly enough, with the remainder unsure. The 'Alligator Alcatraz' was announced last month by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who explained in a social media video that it was being built over 39 square miles on the site of the disused Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, which lies west of Miami. The facility consists largely of tents, will have the capacity to house up to 5,000 people and cost $450m a year to run. Uthmeier gloated in the video that it would require minimal additional security due to its remote location, which is home to such dangerous wildlife as alligators and pythons. 'Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide,' he beamed. He has since appeared on Newsmax to boast that Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other 'communist members of Congress' would not be able to protest outside the center because they would not be able to find it. Trump himself visited it in person on Tuesday, accompanied by Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and seemed particularly taken with the threat the local wildlife posed. 'You don't always have land so beautiful and so secure,' he observed. 'We have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators... I wouldn't want to run through the Everglades for long.' He recalled joking about running a moat populated by vicious creatures along the base of his U.S.-Mexico border wall during his first term. 'It was meant more as a joke, but the more I thought of it, the more I liked it,' he said. Trump also used the trip to threaten to arrest New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Noem's predecessor Alejandro Mayorkas, call his own predecessor Joe Biden 'a son of a b***h', suggest deporting American citizens who commit crimes and hint, even more darkly, that the 'Alligator Alcatraz' could be the first of many more detention centres. 'We'd like to see them in many states,' the president mused. 'And at some point, they might morph into a system.' The detention center has been equally well received by conservatives on Fox News, with Laura Ingraham telling DeSantis during a recent interview that she 'loved' the idea and panellists discussing it on the same network's Gutfeld! chat show saying they too relished the prospect. Comedian Joe Devito was particularly enthusiastic, telling guest host Tyrus, an ex-wrestler, that it amounted to 'The Shawshank Redemption meets Jurassic Park' and going on to suggest that the government go further and staff it with grizzly bears and an 'evil squid' to frisk inmates with its tentacles. Far-right activist Laura Loomer got into hot water by talking up the facility in a social media post on Monday in which she wrote: 'Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.' The figure appeared to be a reference to the total number of Latinos in the United States, chiming with U.S. Census data for the demographic, inviting an angry response from commentators on X.
