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 …
Billions in funding frozen or canceled to coerce universities into political compliance, with demands for protest suppression, admissions reform, and 'academic receivership' of specific departments. …
On March 7, 2025, the administration canceled $400 million in Columbia grants and contracts, then terminated $250+ million in NIH grants …
On April 14, 2025, the administration froze $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard after the university refused demands to adopt …
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 …
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Updated March 25, 2026Deportation to Torture
War Crime / Crime Against HumanityOngoingActive litigation
Immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay face conditions amounting to torture: 23+ hour solitary confinement, punishment chairs, physical abuse, and incommunicado detention. ACLU and CCR lawsuits …
Approximately 500 immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay Migrant Operations Center since January 2025, with executive order calling for …
Detainees held in solitary, windowless cells for 23+ hours per day, constantly shackled, subjected to invasive strip searches and a …
A multi-pronged attack on organized labor: destruction of the NLRB's quorum through the first-ever mid-term firing of a board member, an executive order stripping collective bargaining from 950,000 …
On January 27, 2025, Trump fired NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox — the first time a president has ever removed a Board member before the end of …
A federal judge on March 6, 2025 found Wilcox's firing 'illegal,' but the DC Circuit stayed her reinstatement, and the Supreme Court on May …
Schedule F reclassification targets 50,000 federal employees for removal of civil service protections, enabling political firing for 'subversion of presidential directives.' The rule strips appeal …
Approximately 50,000 federal employees (2% of the federal workforce) will be reclassified into 'Schedule Policy/Career,' losing civil …
The final rule removes statutory whistleblower protections and prevents workers from appealing their reclassification to the Merit Systems …
Federal funding cutoffs threatened against sanctuary cities and their entire states, lawsuits against 29 states, and pending legislation to condition unrelated federal funding on immigration …
On January 13, 2026, Trump announced plans to suspend all federal funding to states hosting sanctuary cities starting February 1, expanding …
The DOJ sued 29 states and Washington, DC for refusing to hand over voter registration lists and cooperate with federal immigration …
A systematic campaign of security clearance revocations targeting political opponents, critics, and former officials who investigated or prosecuted Trump, including 51 intelligence officials, …
On January 20, 2025, Trump revoked security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter stating the Hunter Biden …
On March 22, 2025, a second executive order revoked clearances from former officials including Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and individuals …
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 …
The administration imposed escalating sanctions on ICC officials -- including judges and prosecutors -- for investigating US citizens and allies, obstructing international criminal accountability and …
EO 14203 authorized visa restrictions and financial penalties against ICC officials investigating US citizens or allies, specifically …
Sanctions were progressively expanded from prosecutor Karim Khan to four ICC judges and eventually 11 officials by December 2025.
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 …
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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.
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.
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Updated June 6, 2025Deportation & Immigration
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingActive litigation
Federal officials removed Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador despite a preexisting withholding order barring that destination, then spent weeks litigating what it meant to 'facilitate' his return …
An immigration judge had already barred Abrego Garcia's removal to El Salvador.
Public reporting said he was transferred into El Salvador's CECOT prison system.
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.