The Trump administration is expanding ICE’s surveillance powers to target American citizens who criticize or protest the agency, using social media monitoring technologies, location data, and cell phone hacking contracts, which civil liberties advocates warn is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech.
The Trump administration has frozen all immigration applications from 19 countries, including the suspension of citizenship ceremonies, in an effort to limit legal immigration pathways.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring ICE to provide basic human needs to detainees at its San Francisco Field Office, including clean bedding, hygiene products, medical care, and legal information in their primary languages.
The New York Times found that federal law enforcement priorities under the Trump administration shifted substantially, resulting in a surge of immigration arrests while gun- and drug-related enforcement sharply declined.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against the USDA, challenging the Trump administration’s guidance for implementing SNAP eligibility restrictions, arguing that it unlawfully excludes certain lawfully residing noncitizens from receiving food assistance benefits.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Governor Gavin Newsom have joined a coalition of states suing the Trump administration over new restrictions placed on federal homelessness grants, arguing the policy is unlawful and will push tens of thousands of people back into homelessness.
The US Border Patrol has built a nationwide dragnet driver-surveillance system that uses AI and mass surveillance to target innocent drivers, interrogate, search, and seize their property without proof of wrongdoing.
The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the date of review on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship to Dec. 5, 2025, with multiple federal lawsuits having temporarily blocked the order from being enforced.
Chaofeng Ge, a Chinese immigrant, was found dead in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pennsylvania, with his hands and feet tied behind him, sparking outrage from his family and advocacy groups who are calling for justice and accountability.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal has delayed the release of hundreds of Chicago-area community members arrested without warrants or reasonable cause, in violation of the Castañon Nava federal consent decree, causing further separation of families and allowing unlawful immigration enforcement to continue.
LeAnne Withdrow, a civilian employee of the Illinois National Guard, has filed a class-action lawsuit challenging a Trump-Vance administration policy that blocks intersex and transgender federal employees from using bathrooms aligned with their affirmed gender, arguing that it violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A recent New York Times opinion piece argues that the fentanyl crisis is rooted in the history of domestic drug markets and U.S. policy failures, rather than being caused by foreign traffickers and Democrats weakening the borders.
Venezuelan immigrants detained in a federal raid in Chicago have spoken out about their experiences, revealing that they were taken away in the middle of the night with no explanation and have since been deported or detained in jails across the US.
The ACLU of Southern California testified before the UN Human Rights Council to highlight the Trump administration’s human rights abuses in the region, including ICE raids, excessive use of force against protesters, and deployment of National Guard and Marines.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a coalition of 15 attorneys general opposing the Trump administration’s decision to strip Temporary Protected Status from Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants, which could put hundreds of thousands at risk of deportation and have a significant economic and social impact.
The federal shutdown has ended, but critics warn that the decision to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of people set a dangerous precedent for using food access as political leverage, and that access to food directly impacts public safety.
ICE and CBP are using a mobile app called “Mobile Fortify” to collect biometric data and access vast amounts of data about individuals, regardless of immigration status, raising serious constitutional and ethical issues.
American Roman Catholic bishops have issued a rare and nearly unanimous rebuke of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign, framing the immigration crisis in moral terms and urging an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence.
The Trump administration is facing accusations of using federal agencies for political retaliation and violating constitutional protections after British Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi was detained by U.S. authorities at San Francisco International Airport.
The Trump administration’s immigration policies have been characterized by fear-mongering, racial profiling, and a disregard for due process, resulting in the mass deportation of immigrants and the erosion of trust in government.