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Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations
The Trump administration is dissolving long-established protections meant to help undocumented children stay in the country. By Ana Ley Published Dec. 14, 2025 On a crisp November morning in White Plains, N.Y., six lawyers spent hours in a federal courtroom arguing about the government’s plan to deport a teenager from the Bronx. Agents had detained the…
Lindsey Graham Abandons the Dream Act
The Republican senator told NOTUS the U.S. must first “deal with the millions of people here illegally.” By Manuela Silva December 12, 2025 03:03 PM Ahead of his reelection bid next year, Sen. Lindsey Graham dropped his support for the Dream Act, a bill to help undocumented immigrants that he co-sponsored each time it was introduced for…
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
December 4, 2025 2:44 PM ET Jaclyn Diaz The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR. This population is uniquely vulnerable to attacks while incarcerated, data shows, and advocates say the…
‘I made my American dream in my country’: How Rancho Feliz is confronting the immigration crisis at the source
by Lorenzo Gomez December 2, 2025 AGUA PRIETA, Mexico – It was Thanksgiving Day in 1987, and Gil Gillenwater sat comfortably in his home, preparing to stuff himself with food, drink beer and watch football. But that year, he decided he’d had enough of the uniquely American holiday routine. It was like watching the movie…
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms José Olivares in New York Sun 30 Nov 2025 06.00 EST The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that…
US halts all asylum claim decisions after National Guard shooting
29 November 2025 Yang Tianand James FitzGerald The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington DC, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director has said. Joseph Edlow said the pause would be in place “until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and…
Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the US from poorer countries
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot a day earlier just blocks from the White House had died. He called the suspect, an Afghan national who had worked with the CIA in his native country, a “savage monster.” As part of his Thanksgiving call to…
Funding cuts could cause 3.3 million additional HIV infections by 2030: report
Global HIV assistance is projected to drop by 30 to 40 percent in 2025 compared with 2023, a new UNAID report found. Ryan Adamczeski November 26 2025 11:01 AM EST HIV prevention efforts around the world have suffered their “most significant setback in decades” due to funding cuts, a new report from UNAID has found. Global…
Alabama library board bans ‘gender ideology;’ punts on Fairhope funding
The new language adopted by the Alabama Public Library Service board does not define gender ideology. By: Ralph Chapoco November 21, 2025 6:01 am The Alabama Public Library Service Thursday voted to restrict books for minors that address “transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders.” The changes — which…