Immigrants granted release from ICE custody through court hearings may find themselves back in similar circumstances, as the agency has been rearresting people after a judge let them go. Advocates say this violates their civil rights.

‘Very, very sharp increase’
At least 20 people released from ICE detention following court proceedings in the last year were soon arrested again, according to an investigation by The Guardian. Most of these people were freed via habeas corpus petitions, which let detainees challenge the government’s legal right to imprison them. 

There has been a “very, very sharp increase in people who are released on habeas petitions only to be very rapidly redetained, often in violation of the federal court’s order,” Bridget Pranzatelli, an attorney at the National Immigration Project, said to The Guardian. One man, Akram Mahmoud Omar, 77, was released via a habeas corpus petition after suffering a heart attack at an ICE detention camp in Louisiana. But “just 10 days after his release, ICE seized him again and tried to whisk the still-recovering man onto a deportation flight,” said The Intercept. He was eventually released following another court order.

‘Left me in shock’
The people being rearrested can experience lasting trauma. Yader Cortez of St. Cloud, Minnesota, was “on the cusp of securing U.S. residency” only to be “detained again just three minutes after a judge’s order freed him,” said MPR News. “He tells me, ‘You are being arrested by ICE.’ I ask, ‘Why? The judge is letting me go free, isn’t he?’” Cortez said to MPR of the official who rearrested him. “Then he said, ‘The judge doesn’t know what he’s doing. He made a mistake in your case.’”

“I had never experienced anything like that — going from being free to suddenly being imprisoned again,” said Cortez. “It left me in shock.”

Lawyers say ICE often keeps people’s property even after they are released. The agency has “withheld government-issued identification documents,” said the ACLU of Washington, D.C., and some immigrants have “lost jobs, risked rearrest when leaving their homes and suffered significant hardship” as a result.

As American tech firms pile billions into AI products, their Chinese counterparts are experiencing what some analysts have long warned might be coming: a bubble that pops, with both enormous sums and international clout at risk. What does China’s bursting AI bubble mean for this burgeoning industry, and what could happen next?

Why is China’s AI economy unique?
China’s artificial intelligence boom has “crashed,” said Reuters, as “lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand” and limits on Chinese exports. In addition to “tanking” China’s STAR50 index of AI and semiconductor leaders plus “vaporizing some $480 billion in market value” over the past several months, the bursting bubble is an “ill omen for wobbly world markets.” Beijing’s efforts at “encouraging its savers into stocks to fund the AI boom” are also vulnerable.

China’s AI “exuberance” may “already have come and gone,” said the Financial Times. The shift in part stems from differences between American and Chinese AI industries. Western firms have “focused on charging for access” to their proprietary AI models, while Chinese labs are “more comfortable giving away the model and charging for access to processing power.” 

China’s “‘open-weight’ models” have led to “intense price competition” on both sides of the Pacific, said the Financial Times, raising questions about whether revenue can “support the level of investment required to develop ever more powerful models.” Sliding Chinese tech stocks reflect a “repricing of crowded AI trades, weak domestic demand and the lack of stimulus,” said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis Corporate & Investment Bank, to CNN.

What does this mean for world markets?
Wall Street is funding the U.S.’s AI build-out in “real time,” said NPR. And China’s bubble collapse raises the question of whether the U.S. might be “close behind.” 

China’s stock dive “offers a cautionary tale,” as insiders warn an “abrupt collapse of the debt-fueled AI boom” could have deleterious effects worldwide, said CNN. For now, “strict controls” limiting foreign investment in Chinese markets mean the current stock slip is “unlikely to trigger significant spillovers into global markets.”

Members of the Lasya Dance Troupe perform in Edinburgh at the launch of the Scottish capital’s upcoming Diwali celebrations. Millions of Sikhs, Hindus and Jains worldwide will celebrate the festival of lights this Sunday.
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Those hiding from family this Thanksgiving can take solace in a cornucopia of superb television offerings. These four shows are perfect holiday distractions, even more so maybe than that oversize bowl of Chex Mix.

‘It Gets Worse’
A Gen Z hangout comedy reminiscent of “Adults,” this London-set series follows Ethan (Leo Reich) and his roommates after their eviction. The series is “truly funny, propelled along” by a “zinger-filled, often profound script,” said Hannah J. Davies at The Guardian. (out today on Paramount+)

‘Yellowjackets’ season 4
In its final season, Showtime’s two-timeline thriller about high school girls lost in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash focuses on the survivors both immediately and then long after their rescue. The trailer “signals that the fourth season will play out like a horror psychothriller,’ said Jackie Strause at The Hollywood Reporter. (Nov. 20 on Paramount+)

‘Dig’
In this comedic thriller, Elise (Amy Poehler) leads an archaeological expedition in Greece that sparks international intrigue thanks to an incendiary discovery. It’s “easily one of Peacock’s most ambitious comedy undertakings to date,” said Chelsea Adelaine Hassler at Collider. (Nov. 23 on Peacock)

‘Blade Runner 2099’
Set decades after “Blade Runner,” this gorgeous-looking series stars Michelle Yeoh as Olwen, a replicant who hunts down rogue humans in a world where synthetic beings have subjugated humanity. The show asks the question: “What does the world look like when it’s no longer ours?” said Ben Travis at Empire. (Nov. 25 on Prime Video)