Linda Joseph holds a candle during a vigil at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary immigration status, or TPS, for Haitians, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in North Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more

From hospital subpoenas to funding threats to suing the organization that advocates for trans healthcare—the parallels to the Red Scare are clear. Ted Eytan // Flickr Between the 1940s and 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations targeted Americans for their beliefs, their associations, and their speech. The mechanism was not primarily criminal prosecution—it was investigation, subpoena, and the threat of institutional des

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society. President Trump // Dominique A. Pineiro // Creative Commons Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal

Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on the Equality Act at the Capitol, April 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Rod Lamkey Jr., File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressman returned home last Fourth of July to startling stories in Southern California as immigration patrols swept through communities and one constituent told him about starting to carry a passport as proof of the right to be in the country. Rep. Mark Takano, whose American-born parents were

The judge found 349 individual facts supported the continued provision of gender-affirming care. Judge Carl Folsom III [Photo Credit: Linkedin] This weekend, a Kansas judge issued a scathing 117-page rebuke of the state's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth—and in doing so, methodically dismantled the case against that care. In his ruling, Judge Carl Folsom III worked through the testimony of the state's witnesses one by one, finding that its anti-transgender..

The ruling is a landmark ruling in keeping gender-affirming care legal and available in blue states. Colorado Supreme Court [Photo Credit: Jeffrey Beall] Today, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care for transgender youth, ruling 5-2 that the hospital discriminated against transgender youth patients when it shuttered its care program earlier this year in capitulation to Trump. The decision reverses a district court that

Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting. Volunteers escort a 2-year-old American boy to be reunited with his mother, who awaited deportation in February. Christopher Lee for ProPublica Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, a

The targeted Americans are accused of misdeeds that can qualify them to lose citizenship, but denaturalization has rarely been invoked in the past. A naturalization ceremony for new citizens in Chicago last year. Photo Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Trump administration asked federal courts this week to revoke the citizenship of 12 immigrants who committed crimes or took other actions that officials say disqualify them from being Americans,

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel next to him, at the Department of Justice in Washington, April 21, 2026. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced a bombshell 11-count fraud indictment accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of secretly funding leaders and organizers of white supremacist, racist and other hate groups that the civil rights group claimed to be battling

Photo of Albergue Amparito, Oasis de Paz del Espíritu Santo, Villahermosa taken by the author and reproduced here with permission. The second Trump administration has distorted the concept of “safe third country” beyond recognition, creating what amounts to a system of legal abandonment for some of the most vulnerable migrants. In January 2026, a small group of us from the Everywhere Border project travelled to Mexico’s southern states to conduct interviews and focus groups w