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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.
Trump fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem citing 'leadership failures' — not accountability for two civilians killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed as replacement. Noem …
Trump fired Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary on March 5, 2026, citing 'the fallout in Minnesota, the ad campaign, allegations of infidelity, …
Under Noem's leadership, two US citizens were killed by federal agents during immigration operations in Minneapolis: Renee Good on January 7 …
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Updated March 25, 2026Press Freedom
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A campaign of government coercion against media through broadcast license threats from the president and FCC chair, forced cancellation of a television show, pressure to remove apps, and demands that …
In August 2025, Trump called for the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC for being 'two of the worst and most biased networks in …
In September 2025, Trump said networks covering him negatively should 'maybe' have their licenses revoked, adding such decisions 'would be …
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Updated March 25, 2026Civil Rights
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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
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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, …
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Updated March 25, 2026Foreign Policy & War
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The US was the sole dissenter blocking Gaza ceasefire resolutions supported by all other Security Council members, while famine and allegations of genocide continued in Gaza. The pattern of vetoes …
In June 2025, the US cast its sole veto against a resolution demanding 'an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza' — the …
In September 2025, the US vetoed another ceasefire resolution, the sixth such veto, being the only member to not support it. The vote took …
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Updated March 25, 2026Civil Rights
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Systematic dismantlement of disability protections through withdrawal of ADA guidance, cancellation of pending rules, elimination of Section 503 hiring goals, 50% staff cuts at the disability services …
In March 2025, the DOJ rescinded numerous ADA guidance documents dating to 1999 that clarified requirements for accessibility in public …
On September 11, 2025, the DOJ announced it would not pursue 54 pending regulatory actions, including two ADA rulemakings: one on accessible …
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Updated March 25, 2026Foreign Policy & War
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The Pentagon's civilian casualty prevention infrastructure was gutted in early 2025, removing safeguards that existed specifically to prevent the kinds of civilian harm documented in the …
The CHMR program and its Civilian Protection Center of Excellence were tagged for elimination by February 2025.
Approximately 200 personnel assigned to civilian harm mitigation were affected.
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Updated March 25, 2026Foreign Policy & War
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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
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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, 2026Federal Dismantlement
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An unprecedented withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, UNFCCC, and IPCC, combined with the rescission of the endangerment finding and rollback of 31+ environmental rules, constitutes the most …
On January 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement and directing withdrawal from broader …
In January 2026, the administration announced withdrawal from the UNFCCC and IPCC — plus 64 other international organizations — an …
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Updated March 25, 2026Federal Dismantlement
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A systematic effort to dismantle federal disaster preparedness and response capacity through budget cuts, mass layoffs, program terminations, and structural reorganization. FEMA's workforce has …
FEMA's workforce shrank from approximately 29,000 to 23,000 in 2025 — a loss of one-third of its staff since Trump's second term began.
The proposed FY2026 budget cuts FEMA by $646 million. Plans call for a 50% total workforce reduction, a 41% disaster response staff cut, and …
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Updated March 25, 2026Deportation & Immigration
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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 …
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Updated March 25, 2026Corruption & Self-Dealing
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A systematic pattern of pardons benefiting political allies, donors, and financial criminals. Over half of 88 clemency grants went to white-collar offenders, erasing $1.3 billion in victim …
More than half of 88 individual pardons through January 2026 went to people convicted of white-collar crimes — money laundering, bank fraud, …
House Judiciary Democrats calculated that Trump's pardons erased $1.3 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare fraud, …
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Updated March 25, 2026Civil Rights
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A multi-pronged campaign to restrict reproductive rights through executive action, including withdrawal from EMTALA enforcement, restoration of the Title X gag rule, enforcement of the Hyde Amendment, …
The DOJ withdrew from lawsuits seeking to enforce EMTALA's requirement that hospitals provide stabilizing care — including abortion — in …
The administration prohibited USAID from funding sexual and reproductive health programs globally, reinstating and expanding the 'Global Gag …
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Updated March 25, 2026Federal Dismantlement
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Systematic destruction of the US Agency for International Development resulted in termination of lifesaving programs across the developing world, with The Lancet projecting 9.4 million additional …
The Lancet projects 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030 as a direct result of the USAID dismantlement, making this potentially the single …
23 million children lost access to education and 95 million people lost access to basic healthcare when USAID programs were terminated.
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Updated March 25, 2026Federal Dismantlement
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Systematic destruction of the government oversight apparatus: 17 inspectors general fired, heads of the Office of Special Counsel and Office of Government Ethics removed, whistleblower retaliation …
Trump fired 17 inspectors general upon returning to office in January 2025, removing the independent watchdogs responsible for detecting …
The heads of both the Office of Special Counsel (which protects whistleblowers from retaliation) and the Office of Government Ethics (which …
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Updated March 25, 2026Federal Dismantlement
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The US withdrew from the WHO effective January 2026, removing the organization's largest funder and dismantling pandemic preparedness infrastructure. The WHO announced plans to cut 2,300 jobs — 25% of …
Trump signed Executive Order 14155 on January 20, 2025, initiating US withdrawal from the WHO. The withdrawal became effective on January …
The US was the WHO's largest single funder, responsible for 22% of mandatory contributions during 2024-2025. The WHO's most recent two-year …
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Updated February 1, 2026Deportation & Immigration
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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.
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Updated August 8, 2025Foreign Policy & War
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The United States sanctioned a UN human rights investigator for performing the duties of her mandate, in what UN experts described as an unprecedented threat to the international human rights system.
Francesca Albanese was sanctioned under EO 14203 for engaging with the ICC in its investigation of Israel.
Sanctions include asset freezes, prohibition on donations and transfers, and suspension of U.S. entry.
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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.
Trump used his first day back in office to grant sweeping clemency to January 6 defendants, including people convicted of violent attacks on police and leaders of groups convicted of seditious …
The clemency action covered most January 6 defendants on Trump's first day back in office.
It extended to violent offenders and leaders of groups convicted of seditious conspiracy.