On November 14, 2025, The Washington Post published a major investigative report revealing that the Trump administration is preparing to deport Ukrainian nationals with final orders of removal, even as Ukraine remains embroiled in one of the most destructive wars on European soil since World War II.
In one of the most far-reaching immigration enforcement actions in U.S. history, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow issued an internal memorandum on November 21, 2025, ordering a comprehensive re-examination of every refugee admitted to the United States between January 20, 2021, and February 20, 2025 — an estimated 233,000–235,000 people.
Russia’s post-Soviet military legislation had always been harsh, but until 2022 it remained essentially a peacetime system. Desertion and draft evasion carried real penalties (up to 7 years for desertion under old Article 338), yet in practice prosecutions were relatively rare, sentences were often suspended, and large-scale mobilization had not been attempted since 1945.
The restrictive laws on political speech introduced and dramatically toughened between March 2022 and November 2025 represent not an incremental tightening of the pre-existing authoritarian system, but a conscious transition to a legal wartime regime in which freedom of expression is treated as a direct threat to national security.
A brief summary of the new Refugee Admissions Program for South Africans which makes it possible for racial minorities in South Africa to affirmatively file a statement of interest in refugee resettlement.
Opposition to compulsory military service does not ordinarily qualify an alien for asylum. However, an alien who opposes serving in a military condemned by the international community for inhuman conduct may have a colorable asylum claim.
