The INSIDER

Photo credit: MPRnews As the magnum opus of his second administration, Donald Trump promised sweeping reforms in immigration policy and enforcement. Indeed, he campaigned on having the American federal government carry out mass-deportations of undocumented migrants, an idea seemingly borrowed from European far-right groups. With his “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the agency responsible for carrying out deportations in the U.S., the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had its budget raised to approximatelty 85B$, which makes the agency better funded than most modern militaries, including Canada’s (Center for International Policy). Trump’s…

Aggressive tariffs, intervention in the Middle East, ambitions of territorial expansion; ever since the Trump administration regained power a year ago, it has kept making bolder and more aggressive moves on the global checkerboard. Nowhere has this new era of American interventionism been more evident than in the theatrical regime change that occurred in Venezuela during the night of January 3rd, where the country’s head of state, President Nicolàs Maduro, was abducted by U.S. forces from his home. The Venezuelan leader is now awaiting trial in New York, where he…