Day 571
August 13, 2026
3 incidents
- Serious Rights Violation Deportation & Immigration
Record month for third-country removal flights
Human Rights First's ICE Flight Monitor reports that July 2026 saw a record 18 third-country transfer flights to 10 countries, including first-ever flights to Belize and Dominica and repeat flights to the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ghana, Sierra Leone and others, within a total of 329 removal flights that month.
From: Third-Country Deportations to Rwanda, Ghana, and South Sudan
- Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Deportation & Immigration
En banc Fifth Circuit dismisses case as moot
After hearing argument on January 22, 2026, the en banc court dismissed W.M.M. v. Trump as moot because the three named plaintiffs had since been deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The lawfulness of the invocation was left undecided.
From: Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to Accelerate Venezuelan Deportations
- Major Abuse of Power Civil Rights
Judge dismisses DOJ's Title VI suit against Harvard
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns dismisses the Justice Department's March 2026 lawsuit, which sought to claw back nearly $1 billion in federal grants and cut off future funding over alleged antisemitism, finding the incidents cited 'too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day.'
From: Coercion of Universities: Funding Freezes, Research Cuts, and Demands for Political Compliance