ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) plans to open a new 528-bed facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children inside a Louisiana airport, AP reported this week. The facility will be run by the nonprofit arm of a private prison company that has reported deaths of two detainees since April at one of its facilities in the state. By JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US – Keep the kids, deport Trump, CC BY 2.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=87579676

The new sentencing measure comes as President Nayib Bukele oversees a four-year-long state of emergency against crime. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has led a hardline crackdown on crime since 2022 [File: Jose Cabezas/Reuters] El Salvador has published a new law that will allow authorities to penalise minors as young as 12 with life imprisonment for severe crimes, including homicide, terrorism or rape. On Tuesday, the Salvadoran government released the law, which is sl

As El Salvador's state of emergency turns four years old, families warn of the toll of the mass arrests on children. Rubidia Hernandez and her six-year-old granddaughter hug as they sit in their home on the outskirts of Nahuizalco, El Salvador [Euan Wallace/Al Jazeera] In a quiet church courtyard in El Rosario, El Salvador, 16-year-old Sarita sits beside her grandmother. From her neck hangs a medallion, its golden face flashing against the starchy white fabric of her school u

QueerAF December 2025 TL;DR: Within one day of each other, the Women's Institute and Girl Guiding both announced they would reverse their trans-inclusive approaches with the “utmost regret and sadness”, citing communications with "references to legal challenge" as one of the reasons as their response to the Supreme Court decision on the definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010. Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans-inclusi

Exposing the truth: The real children behind the headlines and the outrage Photograph: Medium 2025 Whenever trans inclusion in Girlguiding comes up, social media fills with dramatic claims about “masses” of trans girls joining, supposedly threatening the very fabric of the organisation. As a parent who has actually looked at the numbers, I wanted to understand the basic question: how many trans girls are we really talking about? The short answer: very few . The long answer: e