Radio Scotland commentary is pretty good too bsky.app/profile/cana...

Here’s some of our earlier work on this topic (from 2023). Despite sanctions, grain and other materials are still being exported from occupied ports www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/08...

Speaking of which, we followed up that story last week as we identified a new ship transporting grain from occupied and Western-sanctioned Sevastopol to Houthi-controlled Yemen bsky.app/profile/bell...

We'll continue to follow this story. For now, check out our article (above) and the following excellent video from our partners at Evident Media and CalMatters on what has happened in LA over the past month www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bux...

With billions in new funding heading for ICE operations in the near future, some believe what has happened in Los Angeles could be just the start of an even bigger immigration crackdown across the US. www.npr.org/2025/07/03/g...

The head of the El Centro unit, Gregory Bovino, is now in charge of the operations across Los Angeles. Agents from his El Centro Border Patrol unit have also appeared in videos of raids in LA neighbourhoods seen by Bellingcat.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other industry and rights groups last week requested a similar injunction be put in place in California’s Central District, which includes Los Angeles.

In April, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in the wake of the Bakersfield raids barring Border Patrol from conducting warrantless raids in California’s Eastern District

However, just how targeted that mission was became a point of significant tension, with rights and labour groups claiming it was anything but. Of 78 people arrested, only one had been flagged for prior removal.

Earlier this year, agents from the El Centro Border Patrol Sector travelled over 300 miles from the US southern border to the city of Bakersfield to take part in what they said were targeted raids to apprehend immigrants with “criminal records”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m93x...

The raids bear similarities to incidents previously investigated by Bellingcat, CalMatters and Evident Media in California.

In others, officers can be seen using significant force to detain people. In most cases officers keep their faces covered, concealing their identity. Unmarked vehicles were also used on numerous occasions.