【２５読書回顧―私のいちおし】「近くて近い」日韓関係＝鈴木 伸幸（東京新聞編集委員）

日本ジャーナリストクラブ（JCJ）
1 day 12 hours ago
　米トランプ大統領は自国中心主義を鮮明にし、日本では「日本人ファースト」を唱える政党が躍進。ウクライナに侵攻したロシアには中国と北朝鮮が急接近─。地政学的な変化が進む中、民主主義や資本主義といった価値観を共有する隣国の韓国は、日本にとって重要な外交パートナーだ。　「近くて遠い国」とも言われたが、今年、誕生した革新の李在明大統領は「実用外交」を標榜。日韓は「近くて近い」関係に成熟しようと努める。それを再考するための良書が、前駐日韓国大使の朴喆熙『誠信交隣』（中日新聞）だ。201..
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EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence

EFF update
2 days 2 hours ago

Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of the Department of Homeland Security since the agency’s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In particular, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been responsible for countless civil liberties and digital rights violations since that time. In the past year, however, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws.  

The Trump Administration has made indiscriminate immigration enforcement and mass deportation a key feature of its agenda, with little to no accountability for illegal actions by agents and agency officials. Over the past year, we’ve seen massive ICE raids in cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis. Supercharged by an unprecedented funding increase, immigration enforcement agents haven’t been limited to boots on the ground: they’ve been scanning faces, tracking neighborhood cell phone activity, and amassing surveillance tools to monitor immigrants and U.S. citizens alike. 

Congress must vote to reject any further funding of ICE and CBP

The latest enforcement actions in Minnesota have led to federal immigration agents killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Both were engaged in their First Amendment right to observe and record law enforcement when they were killed. And it’s only because others similarly exercised their right to record that these killings were documented and widely exposed, countering false narratives the Trump Administration promoted in an attempt to justify the unjustifiable.  

These constitutional violations are systemic, not one-offs. Just last week, the Associated Press reported a leaked ICE memo that authorizes agents to enter homes solely based on “administrative” warrants—lacking any judicial involvement. This government policy is contrary to the “very core” of the Fourth Amendment, which protects us against unreasonable search and seizure, especially in our own homes.  

These violations must stop now. ICE and CBP have grown so disdainful of the rule of law that reforms or guardrails cannot suffice. We join with many others in saying that Congress must vote to reject any further funding of ICE and CBP this week. But that is not enough. It’s time for Congress to do the real work of rebuilding our immigration enforcement system from the ground up, so that it respects human rights (including digital rights) and human dignity, with real accountability for individual officers, their leadership, and the agency as a whole.

Cindy Cohn