The Trump administration is trying to end a cornerstone immigration policy that requires the government to provide basic rights and protections to child immigrants in its custody. The protections, which are drawn from a 1997 consent decree known as the […]
With the highest court in the US poised to hear her case – and decide her family’s future – Monica was keeping busy babyproofing her house. Monica is a plaintiff in one of three lawsuits challenging Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship
The last time Joregelis Barrios heard from her brother Jerce, the call had lasted just one minute. Immigration officials had moved Jerce from the detention center in southern California where he had been for six months to another one in
A Cornell University PhD student earlier this month sued the Trump administration seeking to stop the president’s order aimed at foreign students accused of “antisemitism”. Days later, lawyers at the justice department emailed to request that the student “surrender” to
The Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison that human rights groups say is designed to disappear people. Despite a judge’s order temporarily blocking the move, the US government flew more than 200 men that it
On day one of his presidency, Donald Trump issued a directive abruptly ending the government’s use of CBP One – an online application that had served as the primary means for people at the southern border to apply for asylum
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The Trump administration has rescinded its decision to cut off legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children, just three days after it ordered government-funded attorneys across the country to immediately stop their work. The Acacia Center for Justice and the Immigrant
When the coronavirus pandemic first broke out, Alice Wong’s disability activism and writings proved prophetic. As the virus spread, the failings of the US healthcare system – which disabled activists like Wong had long decried – became starkly apparent to
Donald Trump has named Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host who has been engaged to Trump’s eldest son, to be the US ambassador to Greece. “For many years, Kimberly has been a close friend and ally,” Trump wrote in
Mark McAfee, a California raw milk producer whose products have been recalled several times recently due to bird flu contamination, said he has been approached by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s team to guide the upcoming administration on raw milk policy.
