Author: Garima Sarkar
Garima Sarkar & Farzana Nisha Khan Donald Trump’s second presidency has redefined immigration as both a domestic political priority and a tool of executive state power. In doing so, it is reshaping not only US immigration governance but also wider global debates around borders, sovereignty and migration policy. When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he did not simply resume the immigration politics of his first administration; he returned with a far more disciplined strategy for implementing it. Immigration has long been pivotal to Trump’s political identity, and from the promise of a border wall in 2016…
Garima Sarkar & Aakriti Mittal In the closing weeks of West Bengal’s 2026 Assembly election campaign, a politically charged video spread rapidly across social media platforms. It appeared to show former Trinamool Congress (TMC) minister Humayun Kabir, then aligned with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), discussing a purported ₹1,000 crore arrangement with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to split the Muslim vote. The clip spread rapidly through WhatsApp groups, Facebook pages, and X timelines, fuelling political speculation across the state. Subsequent scrutiny suggested that portions of the video had been digitally altered using AI-based editing techniques, even though parts…
