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Updated April 7, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
The administration moved toward a second phase of mass deportation operations, shifting from criminal-focused enforcement to broad workplace raids, backed by a $170 billion budget, an expanding …
Pro-Trump immigration coalition publicly called for 'Phase II' — expanding from targeting criminals to workplace raids across the country.
The administration spent $895 million on 10 warehouses for mass detention, with seven additional purchases in progress.
The US unilaterally struck a sovereign African nation for the first time, firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at Sokoto State. Locals disputed the ISIS narrative, unexploded ordnance fell in villages, and …
The US fired over a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles from the USS Paul Ignatius in the Gulf of Guinea, striking at least 16 targets in Sokoto …
At least four missile warheads failed to explode and fell short of targets, landing in the villages of Offa, Zugurma, and Jabo, creating an …
A large-scale US retaliatory bombing campaign in Syria following the deaths of three Americans near Palmyra. The scale of the operation — hundreds of munitions across dozens of targets in populated …
On December 19, 2025, the US launched Operation Hawkeye Strike with over 100 munitions on 70+ ISIS targets across Syria, using A-10s, F-16s, …
The operation was retaliatory — responding to the December 13 Palmyra attack that killed two US soldiers (Sgt. Edgar Torres-Tovar and Sgt. …
A secret agreement with one of the world's most repressive regimes has stranded 29 deportees in Equatorial Guinea, where they face indefinite detention without counsel or forced deportation to the …
The Trump administration paid Equatorial Guinea $7.5 million in a secretive deal to accept 29 deportees from the United States, as part of a …
The 29 deportees were sent on two flights — November 24, 2025 and January 22, 2026 — and came from nine countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, …
An accelerated immigration court system that fast-tracks cases through mass remote hearings, with two-thirds of all Somali cases nationwide rescheduled on short notice. The process systematically …
Two-thirds (66.25%) of all Somali noncitizens with open immigration court cases were scheduled for hearings with new judges on short notice, …
Hearings are conducted entirely remotely, with immigrants in Minnesota while judges and government attorneys are in other states. Observers …
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Updated March 26, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernReported record
The administration attempted a mass deportation of unaccompanied minor children in the middle of the night during a holiday weekend, circumventing legal protections that require children to appear …
On August 31, 2025 (Labor Day weekend), 76 unaccompanied Guatemalan children in US government custody were roused from their beds around …
HHS began contacting shelter care providers around 10:00 PM Central time on August 30, ordering them to prepare children for immediate …
The administration deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles without the governor's consent, and attempted to send Texas National Guard troops to Chicago. Federal courts …
Approximately 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines were deployed to Los Angeles beginning June 7, 2025 — the first federal activation …
A federal judge ordered the deployment ended and called the mission 'profoundly un-American,' ruling it illegal.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act slashes $863 billion from Medicaid and $295 billion from SNAP to fund $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest, projected to strip healthcare from 10.9 million people …
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes $863 billion in Medicaid cuts and $295 billion in SNAP cuts over fiscal years 2025-2034, exceeding …
The CBO projects 10.9 million Americans will become uninsured due to Medicaid losses and ACA marketplace coverage reductions.
A coordinated erosion of tribal sovereignty through executive order revocation, termination of $1.5 billion in clean energy funding for 574 federally recognized tribes, and ICE encroachments on tribal …
On March 14, 2025, the Trump administration rescinded Executive Order 14112 — Biden's order expanding tribal sovereignty and …
$1.5 billion in federal funding earmarked for tribal renewable energy and climate resilience projects was terminated, affecting nearly 1,600 …
At least five noncitizen activists and scholars were detained by ICE for pro-Palestinian campus activism or writings, with an estimated 300 student visas revoked. Internal documents confirmed the …
Internal DHS documents confirmed that in nearly all cases, arrests were recommended based on involvement in campus protests and public …
At least 300 international students had their US visas revoked over alleged pro-Palestinian campus activism.
DOGE employees at SSA secretly worked with a political advocacy group to match Social Security data with voter rolls to find 'evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results.' A signed …
In March 2025, a political advocacy group — believed to be True the Vote — contacted DOGE employees at SSA with a request to analyze state …
One DOGE team member signed a 'Voter Data Agreement' with the advocacy group on March 24, 2025, in his capacity as an SSA employee, without …
Trump demanded $500 billion from a nation under active invasion, publicly humiliated its president in the Oval Office, suspended aid and intelligence, and conditioned continued support on a minerals …
The Trump administration initially demanded a $500 billion share of Ukraine's rare earths and minerals as 'repayment' for US aid. Zelenskyy …
A February 28, 2025 Oval Office meeting devolved into a confrontation where VP Vance asked Zelenskyy 'Have you said thank you even once?' …
The US refugee program was restructured to almost exclusively admit white South Africans based on debunked persecution claims, while setting a historic-low refugee cap and shutting down admissions for …
From October 2025 through January 2026, the US admitted 1,651 refugees. Of these, 1,648 — 99.8% — were from South Africa, overwhelmingly …
Trump set the FY2026 refugee ceiling at 7,500, the lowest in modern US history, with most places reserved for white South Africans. This …
The immediate shutdown of the CBP One asylum scheduling app on Inauguration Day cancelled 30,000 appointments and stranded 270,000 asylum seekers, eliminating the primary legal pathway to request …
On January 20, 2025, at noon EST, CBP removed the scheduling functionality from the CBP One app, instantly cancelling approximately 30,000 …
An estimated 270,000 migrants continued logging into the app seeking appointments after the shutdown, indicating the scale of people relying …
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Updated March 26, 2026Corruption & Self-Dealing
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingJudicial finding
DOGE associates including Tom Krause (Broadcom executive) and Marko Elez (25-year-old with racist posts) accessed Treasury's $6 trillion payment system. Elez was mistakenly given write access to …
DOGE associates were granted access to the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which processes over $6 trillion in annual payments …
Tom Krause, former Broadcom CFO and current CEO of Cloud Service Group, was made an unpaid 'senior advisor for technology and modernization' …
An unprecedented pattern of foreign government payments flowing to the president's personal businesses and financial ventures, including real estate deals in Vietnam, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, and the …
Vietnam approved a $1.5 billion Trump Organization golf resort outside Hanoi while seeking to avoid a 46% US import tariff — raising direct …
LIV Golf, backed by the Saudi government, hosted tournaments at Trump National Doral for four consecutive years, including the first with …
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Updated March 25, 2026Foreign Policy & War
War Crime / Crime Against HumanityOngoingReported record
A US submarine torpedoed an Iranian frigate returning from a peaceful international naval event, killing 87 sailors. The failure to rescue shipwrecked sailors violates the Second Geneva Convention's …
The USS Charlotte torpedoed the IRIS Dena approximately 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka on March 4, 2026. The Iranian frigate was returning …
Eighty-seven sailors were killed. The Sri Lanka Navy rescued 32 survivors.
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Updated March 25, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingActive litigation
An ICE directive and BIA precedential decision eliminated bond hearings for millions of immigrants, creating a system of indefinite detention without judicial review. 71.7% of the 57,861 ICE detainees …
On July 8, 2025, Acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons issued a memo declaring that immigrants who entered without inspection are no longer …
On September 5, 2025, the BIA ruled in Matter of Yajure Hurtado that immigration judges lack authority to conduct bond hearings for anyone …
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Updated March 25, 2026Civil Rights
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
A pattern of militarized response to protests including the ICE killing of an American mother, Insurrection Act threats, 3,000-agent deployments, expanded federal police powers, and a presidential …
On January 7, 2026, ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old American mother of three, in Minneapolis during a …
Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to suppress protests in Minneapolis following the Good shooting, deploying 3,000 ICE agents …
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Updated March 25, 2026Civil Rights
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
A sweeping expansion of travel restrictions targeting predominantly Muslim-majority and African nations, growing from the original first-term ban to cover 39 countries. The bans affect millions of …
On June 4, 2025, Trump issued a proclamation restricting entry from 12 countries (Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, …
In December 2025, the ban was expanded to fully restrict entry from 7 additional countries: Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, …
The US paid Rwanda, Ghana, Eswatini, and South Sudan to accept deportees who are not their nationals, in deals a federal judge ruled unconstitutional. HRW called the expulsion agreements violations of …
Rwanda agreed to accept up to 250 deportees from the US under a deal involving approximately $7.5 million in US financial support. Eswatini …
US District Judge Brian Murphy ruled the third-country deportation policy violates federal immigration law and migrants' constitutional …
Approximately 1,700 student visas revoked in a campaign targeting pro-Palestine campus protest activity, with the State Department using AI screening and testifying that criticism of Israel could …
Approximately 1,700 student visas revoked since January 2025, with the State Department targeting students involved in pro-Palestine campus …
The State Department deployed AI tools to screen social media for 'pro-Hamas' content and testified under oath that criticizing the state of …
The US threatened Colombia with 25-50% tariffs, visa bans, and customs inspections to coerce acceptance of military deportation flights. Colombia capitulated within hours, establishing a precedent for …
Trump announced 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods (escalating to 50% within one week), a travel ban, visa revocations for government …
Colombian President Petro's objection was specifically to the use of military aircraft for deportation flights, arguing it treated migrants …
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Updated March 25, 2026Foreign Policy & War
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
The systematically intensified US sanctions regime against Cuba has caused 20-hour blackouts, hospital closures, medication shortages for 5 million chronically ill people, and collapse of essential …
US sanctions have cut Cuba's fuel imports by approximately 90 percent as of February 2026, causing electrical grid collapse with blackouts …
Cuba's Health Minister reports 5 million people with chronic illnesses face medication or treatment disruption, including 16,000 cancer …
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Updated March 25, 2026Civil Rights
Major Abuse of PowerOngoingOfficial executive action
Executive order reversing the federal execution moratorium and mandating the death penalty be sought for all murders by undocumented immigrants 'regardless of other factors' — creating a …
The executive order reversed Biden's July 2021 moratorium on federal executions and directed the attorney general to seek the death penalty …
The order mandates the death penalty be pursued 'regardless of other factors' in two specific categories: murders of law enforcement …
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Updated March 25, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
The rescission of the sensitive locations policy removed decades-old protections for churches, schools, hospitals, courthouses, and shelters from immigration enforcement. The change unleashed a …
On January 20, 2025, the Trump administration rescinded the DHS Protected Areas policy via executive order 'Protecting the American People …
Arrests of people with no criminal record surged 2,450% in Trump's first year — from 6% of ICE detainees in January 2025 to 41% by December …
Latinos account for 90% of ICE arrests, 76% of raids target majority-Latino neighborhoods, the Supreme Court has authorized race-based immigration stops, and at least 170 US citizens have been …
Latinos accounted for 9 out of 10 ICE arrests in the first six months of 2025. ICE arrests nearly doubled during Trump's first 100 days and …
76% of ICE raids in 2025 targeted majority-Latino neighborhoods. Agents have raided hardware store parking lots, car washes, and street …
US airstrikes in Somalia escalated dramatically in 2025, with AFRICOM claiming zero civilian casualties despite independent monitors documenting dozens of civilian deaths. AFRICOM stopped publishing …
AFRICOM conducted at least 43 airstrikes in Somalia in 2025, more than doubling the prior year's pace, with the administration citing both …
AFRICOM has assessed zero civilian casualties from its 2025 strikes, while independent monitors at Airwars document between 33 and 167 total …
Immigration enforcement separated at least 11,000 US citizen children from their parents, with children held in government custody for an average of six months while officials used reunification …
At least 11,000 US citizen children had a parent detained by ICE in the first seven months of Trump's second term -- an average of more than …
Children in ICE detention jumped more than sixfold compared to the Biden administration, from ~25 per day to ~170 per day.
TPS was terminated or targeted for termination across 11 countries, de-documenting over 1 million people. Federal courts have blocked or paused several terminations. The State Department maintains 'Do …
1.6 million people lost their legal right to stay in the United States in 2025 across all TPS and parole terminations -- the largest mass …
TPS was terminated or targeted for 11 countries: Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Syria, Somalia, …
A systematic pattern of press freedom violations including the arrest of journalists covering immigration enforcement, the deportation of a journalist to the country he fled due to death threats, and …
Don Lemon was arrested on January 30, 2026 on federal charges related to covering an ICE-connected church protest -- widely condemned as a …
Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language journalist, was deported on October 3, 2025 to El Salvador -- the country he had fled in 2004 due to death …
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Updated February 28, 2026Deportation & Immigration
ICE Air conducted 2,253 deportation flights to 79 countries in one year -- a 46% increase over the Biden era -- including to 25 countries that had never received ICE flights. Domestic transfer flights …
2,253 deportation flights to 79 countries from January 20, 2025 to January 20, 2026 -- a 46% increase in flights and 76% increase in …
Removal flights included 25 countries that had never previously received ICE deportation flights.
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Updated February 20, 2026Deportation to Torture
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
The US secretly deported 17 people from 9 African countries to Cameroon under a covert agreement. Deportees were immediately beaten by gendarmes, arbitrarily detained, and subjected to torture. …
Under a secret agreement, the US deported 17 people from 9 African countries (Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra …
Deportees included asylum seekers with court-ordered protections against deportation and at least one stateless person.
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Updated February 1, 2026Deportation & Immigration
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
ICE conducted at least 40 workplace raids with over 1,100 arrests in seven months, including the largest single-site raid in DHS history at a Hyundai plant in Georgia (475 arrests). The raids …
At least 40 publicly reported ICE worksite enforcement actions in the first seven months of the administration, resulting in over 1,100 …
The Hyundai Metaplant raid in Ellabell, Georgia (September 4, 2025) was the largest single-site immigration raid in DHS history, with 475 …
The administration threatened military and economic coercion to annex Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal, with the Pentagon developing actual invasion plans, before partially walking back the …
Trump refused to rule out military or economic force to annex Greenland and threatened a 25% tariff on EU goods unless Denmark ceded the …
The Pentagon developed military options for the Panama Canal ranging from closer cooperation to outright invasion, per NBC News reporting.
A naval blockade of Venezuelan oil exports drew condemnation from UN experts as a violation of fundamental international law, with legal analysts characterizing it as an act of war imposed without …
Trump announced a 'TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE' of sanctioned oil tankers going to and from Venezuela in December 2025.
UN experts declared the blockade violated 'fundamental rules of international law,' characterizing it as an unlawful use of force.
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Updated December 22, 2025Deportation & Immigration
ICE turned mandatory immigration court hearings into arrest traps, coordinating in real time with government attorneys to arrest immigrants whose cases were dismissed. Record-setting asylum denials, …
ICE agents arrested immigrants at mandatory immigration court hearings, using case dismissals as triggers for arrest in a coordinated …
Government attorneys and ICE officers coordinated in real time, with agents in hallways waiting to identify and arrest individuals whose …
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Updated December 15, 2025Deportation & Immigration
The administration deported US military veterans including Purple Heart recipients wounded in combat, after replacing Biden-era protections that required ICE to consider military service. An estimated …
An estimated 94,000 US military veterans lack citizenship, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation.
In April 2025, the Trump administration replaced Biden-era guidance requiring ICE to consider military service before arrests with a memo …
An executive order attempting to override the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship guarantee by executive fiat, blocked by every court to consider it and now before the Supreme Court.
EO 14160 attempted to deny citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to parents without lawful permanent status.
Four federal district courts and two appeals courts blocked the order as unconstitutional.
The administration indefinitely suspended refugee resettlement and set the lowest admissions cap in US history at 7,500, prioritizing white Afrikaners, while stranding refugees mid-transit including …
Executive order on January 20, 2025 indefinitely suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program effective January 27.
The FY 2026 refugee cap was set at 7,500 -- the lowest in US history, down from 125,000 under Biden -- with priority given to white South …
DHS Secretary Noem terminated Venezuela TPS, and the Supreme Court allowed it to take effect, de-documenting approximately 350,000 people and exposing them to removal to a country the State Department …
DHS Secretary Noem terminated TPS for Venezuela under the 2023 designation on February 5, 2025.
Approximately 350,000 Venezuelans lost legal status and work authorization.
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Updated September 3, 2025Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingActive litigation
The administration invoked a rarely used 1798 wartime statute to justify accelerated removals of Venezuelan nationals, including transfers into El Salvador's detention system, prompting immediate …
The proclamation treated Tren de Aragua activity as an 'invasion' or 'predatory incursion' under the Alien Enemies Act.
The government used the proclamation to argue for removals with sharply reduced individualized process.
Over 10,000 troops were deployed to the US-Mexico border for immigration enforcement. A federal judge found the administration 'willfully' violated the Posse Comitatus Act -- a foundational law …
Over 10,000 active-duty troops were deployed to the US-Mexico border, expanding military authority to include detaining and searching …
The Air Force annexed a 250-mile stretch of the Texas border as a 'national defense area.'
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Updated July 15, 2025Deportation & Immigration
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
The administration reinstated 'Remain in Mexico,' forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexican cities that the US State Department itself rates as 'Level 4: Do Not Travel' due to kidnapping and violence. …
DHS reinstated MPP on January 21, 2025, forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexican border cities while their cases are processed in US …
MSF documented that in one border city, 75% of MPP patients had been kidnapped while waiting in Mexico under the policy.
The administration imposed an unprecedented total ban on asylum claims at the southern border, shutting down the CBP One app and eliminating all avenues for protection. A federal judge ruled the …
Executive order signed January 20, 2025 suspended all asylum processing at the southern border and shut down the CBP One scheduling app.
The order declared an 'invasion' at the southern border and invoked emergency powers to bypass statutory asylum protections.
A Columbia graduate student with a green card was arrested by ICE for his role in Gaza solidarity protests and ordered deported on the novel grounds that his speech posed 'adverse foreign policy …
Khalil was a lawful permanent resident (green card holder) arrested from his Columbia University campus apartment by ICE.
When ICE learned he held a green card rather than a student visa, agents said that status would be revoked too.
DHS terminated humanitarian parole for 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, stripping legal status effective April 24, 2025. The Supreme Court allowed the mass revocation in a …
Approximately 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela had been granted humanitarian parole under the CHNV programs …
DHS published a Federal Register notice on March 25, 2025 terminating all CHNV parole, with parole expiring April 24, 2025.
A sweeping executive order redefining sex across the federal government, with material consequences for transgender individuals in detention, healthcare, and civil documentation.
EO 14168 defines gender as an immutable male-female binary determined 'at conception,' rejecting gender identity as a legal category.
Transgender individuals in federal custody must be housed according to birth sex, increasing documented risk of sexual violence.