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Mistaken deportations stoke concerns over Trump’s aggressive immigration push
By Priscilla Alvarez, Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN Published 5:00 AM EDT, Fri April 4, 2025 The Trump administration’s aggressive and fast-paced effort to advance its immigration agenda has exposed existing challenges with a dated system and raised concerns that authorities are flouting due process to ram deportations through. Since taking office, President Donald Trump and his team have taken extraordinary measures to…
Migrant children are maneuvering immigration court alone, attorneys say
The federal government ordered immigration lawyers to stop representing children who cross the border into the United States by themselves. By Shandel Menezes • Published April 1, 2025 • Updated on April 1, 2025 at 8:21 pm Layoffs have begun across the county for those who provide legal services to unaccompanied minors who crossed the border in the United States. The cuts come…
Trump administration resumes detention of immigrant families after Biden-era pause
By VALERIE GONZALEZ Updated 6:24 PM CDT, March 12, 2025 McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration resumed family detention of immigrants last week in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause, a legal nonprofit group providing services to migrant families said Wednesday. Fourteen immigrant families with children as young as one year old were…
Judge blocks anti-LGBTQ+ book ban while calling out Christian hypocrisy
The Bible has many sexually explicit passages… but schools are banning far-tamer books as “obscene.” By Arin Waller Thursday, March 27, 2025 A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the enforcement of an Iowa state law that removes books with LGBTQ+ themes and references to sex acts from school libraries. The judge’s decision…
Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions
By CARLA K. JOHNSON Updated 5:15 PM CDT, March 24, 2025 A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science. Last week the U.S. government terminated at least 68 grants to 46…
Researchers, ACLU sue over Trump’s ‘ideological purge’ of NIH grants
By Nate Raymond April 2, 2025 2:49 PM CDT Summary BOSTON, April 2 (Reuters) – Scientific researchers on Wednesday sued to secure reinstatement of National Institutes of Health grants that funded research on topics like LGBTQ health, COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy canceled by Republican President Donald Trump’s administration as part of an “ideological purge.” The ACLU filed a lawsuit,…
A big change for kids with disabilities is underway, Trump says. Critics say it’s against the law.
By Kalyn Belsha and Erica Meltzer | March 21, 2025, 8:27pm CDT President Donald Trump made a brief announcement Friday morning of a policy that could upend how the nation serves its 7.5 million students with disabilities. Offering virtually no details, Trump said he’d decided that the Department of Health and Human Services would handle students’ “special needs”…
VA mistakenly declared San Diego veteran dead, cut off disability payments
U.S. Navy veteran Sky Lowe fought for five months to prove he is alive. By Alexis Rivas, Mike Dorfman and Mark Sackett • Published March 24, 2025 • Updated on March 25, 2025 at 3:40 pm A San Diego Navy fought with the Department of Veterans Affairs for five months after he received a letter mistakenly declaring him deceased. NBC 7 investigative reporter Alexis Rivas…
Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much
By Tony Leys March 25, 2025 PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many people with disabilities from holding full-time jobs. “Which is it? Do you want us to work or not?” he…