Ankita Rao

@anrao.bsky.social

Washington Editor, Guardian US

Mothers built the backbone of the resistance during Minnesota's ICE surge this year. The current moment builds on decades of mothers harnessing their organizing power and working to improve their communities. On mothers and resistance, with @anrao.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I see every child like I see my children’: why US mothers are on the frontlines of resistance movements

Mothers’ experiences often intersect with federal policy battles over gun violence, immigration and childcare

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“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence him

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The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

By the numbers: the latest Ice and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US

The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration

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ICE is using a Marriott hotel in Louisiana to detain migrant families before deportation flights The company said in 2019 it would block use of its hotels to detain families Marriott did not respond to requests for comment By @skirchy.bsky.social, Raima Amjad, @maanvisingh.bsky.social & me

Ice used Marriott chain to detain immigrants, despite hotel’s 2019 pledge not to cooperate

Sheraton in Louisiana held father and teenage son this month in apparent contradiction of former position

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I spoke to one of the first families detained after the Trump administration re-started the practice of jailing families together. Jade, 13, said was "confused and scared". Now that she's out, she's still waiting on the government to return her Nintendo Switch. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump is jailing immigrant families again. A mother, father and teen tell of ‘anguish on a daily basis’

Family incarceration has been revived after Biden – and Jade, Jason and Gabriela are speaking out about their distressing treatment in Texas

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Last week I flew to Chile to meet the wife and baby daughter of one of the Venezuelan migrants thrown in jail in El Salvador after being deported by Trump - a talented singer called Arturo Suárez. “If something happens to my husband, I will hold Trump & Bukele responsible,” she told me 💔

‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate

Arturo Suárez Trejo was caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina and sent to a notorious Salvadorian prison

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Read this story and consider what it means for the future of the US legal profession. Consider what it means for how careers will advance, who will be drawn to practice law, who will rise to become judges. This will have long term consequences : www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US law firms quietly scrub DEI references from websites to appease Trump

Changes at two dozen prestigious firms underscore Trump’s successful intimidation campaign against legal profession

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"Over at the state department, IT staff said new monitoring software has been loaded onto computers. Some staffers have started using white noise machines in their offices, or have even turned on an office breakroom sink..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Federal workers fear Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency is using AI to spy on them: ‘They are omnipresent’

The billionaire’s Doge may be secretly recording meetings in at least two agencies, according to emails from senior officials

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“I left home so that I wouldn’t be afraid to be put into prison again,” said Marina. “When I came here, I thought, worst case they can refuse us asylum. But I didn’t expect that something like this could happen. Not again.”

They fled Putin’s Russia for the US. After Ice detention, they’re choosing to leave again

Sergei and Marina were building a new life in California after protesting the Ukraine war. But Sergei was arrested during a routine check-in – and everything has changed

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Startling moments in this piece about the CDC cuts: "If a Doge staffer walked through their offices and saw a badge at an untended workstation, its owner would be fired promptly." & Laboratories shut down with biohazards/specimens left unstored. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos and confusion at CDC after mass firings

On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forward

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"Crawford and Democrats leaned into making the race about Musk, betting that he was unpopular enough with voters that they would be motivated to come out. That strategy seems to have worked and turnout skyrocketed in Wisconsin." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wisconsin and Florida races give jolt of energy to Democrats in fight against Trump

Democrats motivated by deep anger from voters who say party isn’t doing enough to coalesce around a strategy

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