@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-11 10:26:10
Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/health-insurance-startup-alan-reaches-e5b…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-11 06:28:03
More Immigrants Than Ever Are Challenging Detention
An analysis of habeas cases since 2009 shows that
immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term
than in the last three administrations combined
— and the number keeps rising.
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court
from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal,
mor…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-12 00:03:34
From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-01-10 14:04:36
Disinformation works:
Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/10/two-thirds-of-uk-voters-wrongly-think-immigratio…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-10 15:01:13
Dozens of Kids Entered Foster Care After Immigration Agents Detained Their Parents (Jackie Llanos/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/immigration/immigrant-detention-deportation-foster-care-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p40#a260210p40
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-10 17:04:31
In early February there were more than 750 families,
nearly half of them including children,
as well as some 370 single adult women
being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.
It is just one of many immigration centers across the country,
but the only one holding families.
Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed,
-- increasing sixf…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-11 21:26:08
Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-10 21:55:49
ICE and CBP Heads Mum on Discipline Against Immigration Agents (Jackie Llanos/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/immigration/ice-cbp-uscis-oversight-hearing-house-immigration-agent-misconduct
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p122#a260210p122
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-10 15:59:28
Top federal immigration officials answer lawmaker questions
On Capitol Hill, leaders for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
will answer questions from the House homeland security committee.
Rodney Scott, Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
Joseph Edlow, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
and Todd Lyons, acting d…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-10 17:27:59
It's the deadliest year for those in immigration detention in more than two decades.
More people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since October — 23 — than died in the whole prior fiscal year.
The most recent death was of a 56-year-old Haitian man held at an immigration detention center in Arizona. He died in a hospital after going into septic shock.
The increase in deaths comes as nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in sev…