Elected officials across the country are fighting the federal government’s mass deportation campaign with new laws and funding. But some states are welcoming the shock troops.
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Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion
The order came the day before the Office of Refugee Resettlement held an industry roundtable to discuss new detention facilities for thousands of children.
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Proponents of Solitary Confinement Attempt to Stifle Reform
A New York correctional union and Republican backers are weaponizing a false narrative about solitary confinement and violence.
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Trump’s Latest Catch-22 for Immigrants
USCIS’s new rule encourages immigrant families to forgo public benefits to which they are entitled or lose their green card eligibility.
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No Minority Is Safe From Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine
ICE is specifically targeting immigrant communities of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
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Right-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight ‘Abortion Pollution’
In their zeal to create a de facto national abortion ban, anti–abortion rights groups are claiming that medications like mifepristone poison the water supply.
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Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
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NYC Tenants Sue Over Spying Operation in Public Housing
Under Eric Adams, the city and the NYPD attached video surveillance to free internet routers. Plaintiffs allege this violates their civil liberties.
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Louis Brandeis: The Empiricist
Louis Brandeis believed that facts could change lives and break excessive power where it accumulated.
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ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention
Community members in Louisiana packed a board meeting to protest a camp for women and children last week. Only half the board showed up, and one member slept through the meeting.