https://trumpswarcrimes.com A comprehensive legal archive documenting actions by the Trump administration (January 20, 2025 onward) that may constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, or serious violations of international law. Maintained for researchers, attorneys, journalists, and concerned citizens. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-infrastructure-ultimatum https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-infrastructure-ultimatum Trump's explicit threats to destroy all civilian infrastructure in Iran — every bridge, every power plant — with the stated goal of ensuring Iran 'could literally never rebuild as a nation again' constitute textbook threats of indiscriminate attack, a war crime under the Rome Statute and customary IHL. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-b1-bridge-strike https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-b1-bridge-strike US forces destroyed Iran's landmark B1 bridge near Karaj in a double-tap strike during Nowruz holiday celebrations, killing 8 civilians and wounding 95. The bridge — 176 meters tall and 1,050 meters long — was under construction and had never been used for any military purpose. The strike marked the first direct hit on major civilian infrastructure following Trump's 'Stone Ages' threats. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/phase-ii-mass-deportation-workplace-raids https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/phase-ii-mass-deportation-workplace-raids 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 warehouse detention infrastructure, and a stated goal of removing one million people in 2026. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-kharg-island-strikes https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-kharg-island-strikes U.S. military strikes on Kharg Island — Iran's primary oil export facility handling 90% of crude exports — constitute attacks on critical civilian economic infrastructure. Combined with explicit threats to destroy the entire island, these strikes raise serious questions under the proportionality and distinction principles of international humanitarian law. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-civilian-infrastructure-threats https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-civilian-infrastructure-threats Trump's explicit threat to destroy Iran's civilian power infrastructure constitutes a per se violation of international humanitarian law. The threats escalated from 'obliterate' to a promise of 'complete demolition' of all civilian infrastructure. Combined with 3,400+ killed including 1,600+ civilians, this represents a confirmed war crime classification. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/trump-threatens-jail-journalists-iran https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/trump-threatens-jail-journalists-iran Trump's threat to jail journalists for reporting on a military rescue mission during the Iran war extends the administration's documented pattern of using national security claims to suppress press freedom and criminalize journalism. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Press Freedom https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-f15-shootdown-rescue https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-f15-shootdown-rescue The shootdown of a US F-15E over Iran and the massive rescue operation that followed document the intensity and cost of the 2026 Iran war. The rescue itself was a legitimate military operation, but Trump's threat to jail journalists who covered it raises serious press freedom concerns, and the scale of the operation — including abandoned US aircraft inside Iran — illustrates the escalatory trajectory of the conflict. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-armed-security-deputization https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-armed-security-deputization The deputization of Musk's private bodyguards as federal agents — with training requirements waived at White House request — represents an unprecedented merger of private security with federal law enforcement authority, bypassing the safeguards that exist to prevent untrained armed individuals from exercising government power. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-bushehr-nuclear-plant https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-bushehr-nuclear-plant Repeated strikes near Bushehr nuclear power plant violate Additional Protocol I Article 56's specific protection of nuclear electrical generating stations. Even without a radiation release, strikes on or near an active nuclear reactor in a city of 250,000 constitute reckless endangerment of the civilian population and violate the prohibition on disproportionate attacks under Rome Statute Article 8(2)(b)(iv). Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-energy-bureau-gutting-iran-war https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-energy-bureau-gutting-iran-war DOGE's elimination of the State Department's energy diplomacy bureau months before the Iran war left the U.S. without key personnel who monitored energy chokepoints, oil markets, and Iranian energy infrastructure — capabilities now desperately needed during a conflict centered on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's oil economy. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/noem-fired-mullin-dhs-leadership https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/noem-fired-mullin-dhs-leadership 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 was reshuffled to a diplomatic title, not held responsible for the extrajudicial killings under her watch. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-weather-service-gutting https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-weather-service-gutting DOGE fired over 600 National Weather Service employees including hurricane hunters, meteorologists, and storm modelers, leaving 30 forecast offices without lead meteorologists. The NWS Goodland, Kansas office became the first to abandon 24/7 operations. Five former NWS directors warned the cuts endanger lives heading into tornado and hurricane season. Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-nuclear-weapons-firings https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-nuclear-weapons-firings DOGE fired 350 NNSA nuclear weapons workers, including warhead assemblers at Pantex and radioactive waste managers at Savannah River, as part of a 2,000-person Department of Energy purge. Most firings were rescinded within 24 hours after bipartisan alarm over nuclear stockpile security, but the incident exposed DOGE's indiscriminate approach to agencies with critical national security functions. Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-cfpb-shutdown https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-cfpb-shutdown DOGE operationally shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a Congressionally-created agency protecting 330 million Americans from financial fraud — by ordering staff to cease all work, deleting social media accounts, and planning to fire nearly all 1,700 employees. Federal courts intervened but the agency remains gutted. Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-hospital-attacks https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-hospital-attacks A sustained pattern of strikes on Iranian hospitals, ambulances, and medical infrastructure has killed healthcare workers and forced the evacuation of six hospitals. The WHO has verified 18 attacks on health sites, documenting systematic damage to protected medical facilities including Gandhi Hospital and Iranian Red Crescent centers. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/america-first-arms-transfer-strategy https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/america-first-arms-transfer-strategy An executive order stripped human rights safeguards from the US arms transfer framework, replacing decades of bipartisan policy with a commerce-first approach. The subsequent emergency bypass of congressional review for $23+ billion in Gulf arms sales demonstrated the immediate consequences of removing these guardrails. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cluster-munitions-purchase-israel https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cluster-munitions-purchase-israel The US contracted with an Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer for banned cluster munitions at industrial scale, reversing decades of declining reliance on these weapons and funding an Israeli weapons program while cluster munitions continue to kill and maim civilians worldwide. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/new-start-treaty-expiration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/new-start-treaty-expiration The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty ends over five decades of binding limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. No replacement is under negotiation. The loss of verification mechanisms, data exchange, and warhead caps risks an unconstrained nuclear arms race at a time of peak geopolitical tension. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-killing-renee-good https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-killing-renee-good An ICE agent shot and killed an American woman during an immigration raid in Minneapolis. Video evidence contradicted the government's claim of self-defense. The administration used the killing to threaten the Insurrection Act and escalate immigration enforcement. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Extrajudicial Killing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/nigeria-christmas-airstrikes https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/nigeria-christmas-airstrikes 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 legal basis for striking a non-hostile nation's territory without AUMF authority remains deeply contested. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/syria-operation-hawkeye-strike https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/syria-operation-hawkeye-strike 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 desert regions — raises serious questions about proportionality and civilian protection under international humanitarian law. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/antipersonnel-landmines-policy-reversal https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/antipersonnel-landmines-policy-reversal The Trump administration reversed decades of bipartisan progress toward eliminating antipersonnel landmines by authorizing their global use and simultaneously dismantling the US humanitarian demining program that had been the world's largest mine-clearing effort. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/equatorial-guinea-deportation-deal https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/equatorial-guinea-deportation-deal 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 countries they fled. The $7.5 million deal is part of a broader $40 million third-country deportation program targeting migrants from countries that will not accept their return. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/epstein-files-obstruction-cover-up https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/epstein-files-obstruction-cover-up After signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Trump administration's DOJ missed legal deadlines, secretly re-redacted files, and withheld documents containing allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor — prompting a UN finding that the crimes described may amount to crimes against humanity, bipartisan congressional subpoenas of AG Bondi, and calls for a special counsel over alleged perjury. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/immigration-rocket-dockets https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/immigration-rocket-dockets 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 deprives respondents of due process, with 80% of completed rocket docket cases historically resulting in in absentia removal orders. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/nuclear-testing-resumption-order https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/nuclear-testing-resumption-order Trump directed the Pentagon to match other nations' nuclear testing programs, breaking a moratorium that has held since 1992 and threatening to collapse the global norm against nuclear testing that has been maintained for over three decades. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/guatemalan-children-midnight-deportation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/guatemalan-children-midnight-deportation 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 before an immigration judge. A federal judge halted the operation after being awakened at 2:35 AM, but one plane had already taken off before turning around. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/national-guard-illegal-deployments https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/national-guard-illegal-deployments 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 ruled both deployments illegal, with the Supreme Court finding no source of authority for the Illinois deployment. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/medicaid-snap-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/medicaid-snap-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill 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 and food assistance from hundreds of thousands of older adults. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/afghanistan-frozen-assets-starvation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/afghanistan-frozen-assets-starvation The combined effect of freezing Afghanistan's sovereign assets and terminating all US humanitarian aid has created a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in which millions face starvation. UN officials have explicitly warned the policy will directly cause deaths, particularly among children. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/yemen-ras-issa-port-strike https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/yemen-ras-issa-port-strike US airstrikes on Yemen's most critical civilian port infrastructure killed 84+ civilians including three children, port workers, truck drivers, and civil defense personnel. HRW found the strikes were an apparent war crime given the port's overwhelmingly civilian character and essential role in sustaining Yemen's population. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Extrajudicial Killing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/hhs-dismantlement-measles-crisis https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/hhs-dismantlement-measles-crisis RFK Jr.'s dismantlement of federal health agencies during an active measles crisis — including firing vaccine advisors, cutting thousands of positions, and clawing back billions — has resulted in the worst measles outbreak in 30+ years and threatens America's measles-elimination status. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/wrongful-deportations-pattern https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/wrongful-deportations-pattern Multiple US citizens and legally protected individuals have been wrongfully deported, often in direct defiance of federal court orders. The pattern includes deportation of a man with explicit judicial protection, another removed the day after a court barred his removal, and a US citizenship claimant deported despite a restraining order. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/yemen-operation-rough-rider https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/yemen-operation-rough-rider A 53-day US bombing campaign in Yemen produced an unprecedented civilian death toll, with monitoring organizations documenting at least 224 civilian deaths — matching the previous 23 years of US civilian casualties in Yemen. Strikes hit a migrant detention center, a fuel port, and a cancer hospital. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Extrajudicial Killing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/native-american-tribal-sovereignty-violations https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/native-american-tribal-sovereignty-violations 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 lands that questioned Native Americans' citizenship status. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/usagm-voa-broadcasting-dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/usagm-voa-broadcasting-dismantlement A coordinated attack on US government-funded international broadcasting placed 1,300 journalists on leave, terminated Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's grant, and attempted to gut Voice of America — until a federal judge ruled the actions illegal and ordered staff reinstated. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Press Freedom https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/political-prisoners-campus-activists https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/political-prisoners-campus-activists 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 detentions were based on speech and protest activity, not immigration violations, and multiple federal judges ordered their release. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-social-security-voter-fraud https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-social-security-voter-fraud 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 data-sharing agreement and Hatch Act referrals followed. A whistleblower alleged DOGE copied 300+ million Americans' records into an unsecured virtual database. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/houthi-fto-designation-humanitarian-impact https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/houthi-fto-designation-humanitarian-impact The reimposition of FTO status on the Houthis threatens to deepen what was already the world's worst humanitarian crisis by chilling aid delivery, disrupting commercial imports, and creating legal risks for humanitarian workers operating in areas where more than half of Yemen's population lives. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ukraine-minerals-coercion https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ukraine-minerals-coercion 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 deal — leveraging Ukraine's existential crisis for resource extraction. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/emergency-arms-sales-congressional-bypass https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/emergency-arms-sales-congressional-bypass Using emergency waivers under the Arms Export Control Act, the administration has bypassed Congress to approve massive arms sales to Gulf states, including to the UAE despite documented evidence of UAE weapons flowing to the RSF in Sudan's genocide. The simultaneous rescission of NSM-20 removed all human rights conditions from US arms transfers. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/education-department-dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/education-department-dismantlement The systematic dismantlement of the Department of Education began with DOGE slashing $881 million in research contracts and eliminating IES, followed by cutting half the workforce, and culminated in an executive order to shutter the entire department. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cfpb-dismantlement-musk-conflict https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cfpb-dismantlement-musk-conflict Musk used his government role leading DOGE to dismantle the CFPB, the agency positioned to regulate his XMoney digital payments platform, while gaining access to competitors' confidential financial data — a textbook conflict of interest that multiple ethics bodies have flagged as potentially criminal. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/white-afrikaner-refugee-discrimination https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/white-afrikaner-refugee-discrimination 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 all other populations — including those fleeing active wars and genocide. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/icc-immunity-demands-rome-statute https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/icc-immunity-demands-rome-statute A systematic campaign to destroy the International Criminal Court's ability to hold Americans accountable for war crimes, combining unprecedented sanctions on judges with demands to rewrite the Rome Statute itself. The campaign goes far beyond any previous US opposition to the ICC, seeking not merely non-cooperation but the permanent restructuring of international criminal justice. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/fda-food-safety-collapse https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/fda-food-safety-collapse Mass layoffs at the FDA driven by the Department of Government Efficiency eliminated over 3,500 staff in 2025, causing foreign food safety inspections to drop by nearly half, outbreak investigations to go unsolved at record rates, and critical programs like avian influenza testing to be halted. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-federal-workforce-mass-firings https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-federal-workforce-mass-firings DOGE directed mass firings of probationary employees, coerced ~75,000 resignations through the 'Fork in the Road' program, and orchestrated reductions in force totaling ~300,000 federal positions. Courts found the probationary firings illegal, but the Supreme Court sided with the administration on appeal. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-unauthorized-data-access https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-unauthorized-data-access DOGE accessed Treasury, OPM, and SSA databases containing millions of Americans' personal data without authorization or completed background checks. Federal judges ordered data disgorged and deleted, finding Privacy Act and APA violations, though the Supreme Court later partially reversed. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cbp-one-shutdown-asylum-elimination https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cbp-one-shutdown-asylum-elimination 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 protection at the US border. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-dei-dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-dei-dismantlement Executive Order 14151 directed elimination of all federal DEI programs. DOGE implemented a three-phase purge, firing thousands of workers — including many who had no current DEI role — using AI tools to identify targets. A December 2025 class-action lawsuit alleges the purge targeted minorities, women, and LGBTQ+ employees. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-treasury-payment-system-access https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doge-treasury-payment-system-access 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 payment records. 19 AGs sued. A federal judge blocked access, calling it 'chaotic and haphazard,' but the 4th Circuit later reversed. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/musk-government-contract-self-dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/musk-government-contract-self-dealing The world's richest man led government cost-cutting while his companies held $38 billion in government funding. Zero Musk contracts were cut. SpaceX won new billions in Pentagon contracts during the cuts. No ethics forms were filed. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/osha-workplace-safety-dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/osha-workplace-safety-dismantlement A systematic dismantlement of OSHA's regulatory and enforcement capacity through mass deregulation, inspector cuts, and penalty reductions that experts warn will lead to preventable worker deaths across construction, manufacturing, and agricultural sectors. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/trump-emoluments-foreign-payments https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/trump-emoluments-foreign-payments 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 Gulf states, the LIV Golf partnership, a $400 million Qatari jet, and cryptocurrency schemes — prompting multiple Senate resolutions condemning the arrangements as Emoluments Clause violations. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-no-quarter-declaration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-no-quarter-declaration The US Defense Secretary's public declaration that no quarter would be given to Iran constitutes a textbook war crime under Rome Statute Article 8(2)(b)(xii), which criminalizes 'declaring that no quarter will be given.' This prohibition is among the oldest in the laws of war. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-cultural-heritage-strikes https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-cultural-heritage-strikes US and Israeli strikes have damaged UNESCO World Heritage Sites and over 100 cultural heritage sites across Iran, including Golestan Palace, Isfahan's Naqsh-e Jahan Square complex, the 8th-century Jameh Mosque, and prehistoric sites dating to 63,000 BC. The destruction of cultural heritage during armed conflict is prohibited under the 1954 Hague Convention and constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-iris-dena-sinking https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-iris-dena-sinking 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 obligation to search for and collect the shipwrecked after an engagement. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/strait-of-hormuz-crisis https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/strait-of-hormuz-crisis The Iran war triggered closure of the world's most critical energy chokepoint, causing the largest supply disruption since the 1970s. Oil above $120/barrel, 70% food import disruption across Gulf states, and mass civilian evacuation — consequences of a war launched without congressional authorization. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/lebanon-war-us-complicity https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/lebanon-war-us-complicity Israel's 2026 Lebanon offensive — conducted with US-supplied weapons including white phosphorus munitions used over civilian areas — has killed over 1,000 people, wounded nearly 3,000, and displaced 700,000. The United States bears complicity through continued arms transfers despite documented violations. HRW and UN experts have called for suspension of military assistance. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Complicity in Genocide https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-crime-of-aggression https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-crime-of-aggression The United States launched a major war against Iran without congressional authorization, without a UN Security Council mandate, and while diplomatic channels remained open. Legal experts, the Brennan Center, and international law scholars have characterized the strikes as unconstitutional and as potentially meeting the definition of a crime of aggression — what the Nuremberg Tribunal called 'the supreme international crime.' Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-minab-school-strike https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/iran-war-minab-school-strike A Tomahawk cruise missile struck a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing up to 180 schoolchildren in one of the deadliest single incidents of civilian harm in the 2026 Iran war. Investigations by the New York Times, CBC, NPR, and BBC Verify confirmed US responsibility. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/venezuela-military-intervention https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/venezuela-military-intervention The United States launched a unilateral military intervention in Venezuela, bombing infrastructure and capturing the sitting head of state, without Congressional authorization, UN Security Council mandate, or self-defense justification. International legal experts, the UN Secretary-General, and governments worldwide condemned the operation as a violation of the UN Charter. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/caribbean-drug-boat-strikes https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/caribbean-drug-boat-strikes A sustained campaign of Hellfire missile strikes on suspected drug boats has killed at least 95 people without due process, public evidence of drug trafficking, or identification of the dead. Legal experts widely classify these as extrajudicial killings and crimes against humanity. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Extrajudicial Killing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/alligator-alcatraz-detention-torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/alligator-alcatraz-detention-torture Florida immigration detention centers are sites of documented torture including a punitive cage device, prolonged solitary confinement, unsanitary conditions, and enforced disappearances facilitated by the absence of any tracking system. At least six people died in Florida ICE facilities since October 2024. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/broadcast-license-threats-media-coercion https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/broadcast-license-threats-media-coercion 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 platforms suppress immigration-related content. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Press Freedom https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/systematic-bond-denial-indefinite-detention https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/systematic-bond-denial-indefinite-detention 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 had no criminal convictions. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/protest-crackdown-insurrection-act-threats https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/protest-crackdown-insurrection-act-threats 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 memorandum classifying political opposition as domestic terrorism. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/expanded-muslim-travel-ban https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/expanded-muslim-travel-ban 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 people and have been widely characterized as religious and racial discrimination codified into immigration policy. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/gaza-ceasefire-vetoes https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/gaza-ceasefire-vetoes 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 enabled continued military operations with devastating humanitarian consequences. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/third-country-deportations-africa https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/third-country-deportations-africa 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 international human rights law, and domestic lawsuits in Ghana challenge the deal's legality. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/yemen-migrant-detention-strike https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/yemen-migrant-detention-strike US airstrikes killed 68 detained African migrants sleeping in a Sa'ada detention center during Operation Rough Rider. Amnesty International's investigation found no evidence the facility was a military target and concluded the strike was indiscriminate and must be investigated as a war crime. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Extrajudicial Killing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/voter-suppression-election-interference https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/voter-suppression-election-interference An executive order attempting unprecedented presidential control over federal elections — requiring proof of citizenship to register, decertifying voting machines in 39 states, restricting mail ballots, and demanding state voter files — struck down by three federal courts as unconstitutional but partially implemented by compliant states ahead of the 2026 midterms. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/disability-rights-rollbacks https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/disability-rights-rollbacks 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 agency, and an executive order promoting institutionalization — described by the American Bar Association as rolling 'back decades of disability rights.' Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/attacks-on-judiciary https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/attacks-on-judiciary A pattern of court order defiance, threats against judges, calls for impeachment, and DOJ Civil Rights Division gutting that constitutional scholars describe as the most serious executive-judicial confrontation since at least Watergate. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cecot-deportation-torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cecot-deportation-torture Over 260 Venezuelans were secretly deported to CECOT, where HRW documented torture, sexual violence, prolonged incommunicado detention, and denial of basic necessities. Many deportees had no criminal history and were asylum seekers. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cecot-forced-disappearances-salvadorans https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cecot-forced-disappearances-salvadorans Systematic forced disappearances of Salvadoran nationals deported from the US, held incommunicado in Salvadoran prisons including CECOT with no access to lawyers, families, or courts. The US bears responsibility for knowingly deporting individuals to a country practicing enforced disappearance — a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/academic-freedom-university-funding-coercion https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/academic-freedom-university-funding-coercion 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. Columbia capitulated with a $221 million settlement; Harvard resisted and won a court order restoring $2.2 billion. NIH research funding was cut 24%. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/law-firm-retaliation-executive-orders https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/law-firm-retaliation-executive-orders Unprecedented use of executive orders to punish four law firms for representing clients adverse to the president. All four orders were struck down as unconstitutional violations of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. The campaign chilled legal representation and coerced at least nine other firms into compliance deals. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/dismantlement-civilian-harm-mitigation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/dismantlement-civilian-harm-mitigation 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 administration's subsequent military operations. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/secret-el-salvador-detention-contract https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/secret-el-salvador-detention-contract A secret $6 million contract enabled the US to outsource detention to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, where HRW documented systematic torture. The unreleased agreement created an unprecedented mechanism to evade domestic legal protections by transferring detainees to a foreign torture facility. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/student-visa-revocations-protests https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/student-visa-revocations-protests 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 justify revocation. The campaign suppresses protected political speech through immigration enforcement. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/guantanamo-immigrant-detention https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/guantanamo-immigrant-detention 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 challenge the offshore detention as unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/labor-union-suppression https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/labor-union-suppression 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 federal workers, and extension of the order to additional agencies — described as 'the single most aggressive action against organized labor in US history.' Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/colombia-deportation-standoff https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/colombia-deportation-standoff 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 weaponizing economic power to override sovereign decisions on migration. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/schedule-f-federal-workforce-purge https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/schedule-f-federal-workforce-purge 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 rights, whistleblower protections, and Merit Systems Protection Board access, drawing lawsuits from over 30 organizations. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cuba-sanctions-humanitarian-crisis https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cuba-sanctions-humanitarian-crisis 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 services. UN experts condemned the measures as collective punishment of civilians. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/death-penalty-expansion-executive-order https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/death-penalty-expansion-executive-order 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 discriminatory two-tier system where immigration status, not the severity of the crime, determines whether the government seeks death. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doj-weaponization-political-prosecutions https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/doj-weaponization-political-prosecutions Systematic weaponization of the DOJ through a retaliatory investigations unit, indictments of political opponents that were dismissed as brought by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor, mass departure of career prosecutors, and dismantlement of the Civil Rights Division and Public Integrity Section. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/environmental-regulatory-destruction https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/environmental-regulatory-destruction 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 comprehensive destruction of environmental protections in US history. The actions remove the world's largest historical emitter from the international climate framework while eliminating domestic regulation of greenhouse gases. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/fema-disaster-preparedness-dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/fema-disaster-preparedness-dismantlement 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 already shrunk by one-third, with plans to cut it in half. The disaster response workforce faces a 41% cut and the surge workforce an 85% cut, leaving the country dangerously unprepared for hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and other disasters. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-detention-deaths https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-detention-deaths 46 deaths in ICE custody since January 2025 mark a two-decade high. ICE's October 2025 halt of medical care payments left detainees without access to health services as the detention population reached record levels, creating conditions that contributed to preventable deaths. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-sensitive-locations-policy-rescission https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-sensitive-locations-policy-rescission 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 dramatic surge in arrests of non-criminal immigrants and chilled access to essential services including healthcare and education. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/pardons-political-allies-corruption https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/pardons-political-allies-corruption 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 restitution. Twenty corrupt politicians were pardoned. The DOJ's Public Integrity Section — responsible for investigating corruption — has been largely dismantled, and the head of the Pardon Attorney's office was fired and replaced with a political loyalist. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Corruption & Self-Dealing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/pregnant-detainee-abuse https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/pregnant-detainee-abuse ICE deported 363 pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women in 13 months and recorded 16 miscarriages in detention. Women were shackled while miscarrying, denied prenatal care, and subjected to invasive procedures without consent -- all in violation of ICE's own 2021 directive against detaining pregnant individuals. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/racial-profiling-ice-enforcement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/racial-profiling-ice-enforcement 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 wrongfully detained — constituting systematic racial profiling in violation of equal protection and non-discrimination principles. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/reproductive-rights-restrictions https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/reproductive-rights-restrictions 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, and preparation to invoke the 1873 Comstock Act as a de facto nationwide abortion ban without Congressional action. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/sanctuary-city-funding-punishment https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/sanctuary-city-funding-punishment 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 cooperation — a coercive federalism strategy that courts have repeatedly found unconstitutional. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/security-clearance-political-retaliation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/security-clearance-political-retaliation A systematic campaign of security clearance revocations targeting political opponents, critics, and former officials who investigated or prosecuted Trump, including 51 intelligence officials, prosecutors, state attorneys general, and even an entire private cybersecurity company — constituting an unprecedented use of classification authority for political punishment. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/somalia-airstrike-escalation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/somalia-airstrike-escalation 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 casualty data and has never paid compensation for civilian harm in the country. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Extrajudicial Killing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/usaid-dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/usaid-dismantlement 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 preventable deaths by 2030. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/whistleblower-retaliation-oversight-destruction https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/whistleblower-retaliation-oversight-destruction 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 cases up 9x at DOE, and federal employees reporting fear of speaking up or reporting wrongdoing. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/who-withdrawal-pandemic-preparedness https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/who-withdrawal-pandemic-preparedness 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 its workforce. The withdrawal degrades global disease surveillance, influenza vaccine matching, and outbreak response capacity at a time of ongoing zoonotic disease threats. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/gaza-arms-complicity https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/gaza-arms-complicity Continued US arms transfers to Israel during ICJ genocide proceedings, including emergency bypasses of Congressional review, combined with active diplomatic defense of Israel at the ICJ, raising serious questions of complicity in genocide under the Genocide Convention. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Complicity in Genocide https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/white-phosphorus-lebanon-complicity https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/white-phosphorus-lebanon-complicity Israel deployed US-supplied white phosphorus over Lebanese civilian areas in 191 attacks across 17+ municipalities since October 2023, continuing through March 2026. HRW verified the attacks as unlawfully indiscriminate and called for suspension of US arms transfers. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Complicity in Genocide https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/family-separations-child-detention https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/family-separations-child-detention 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 processes as traps to arrest parents and caregivers. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/mass-tps-terminations https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/mass-tps-terminations 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 Not Travel' advisories for many of the same countries DHS claims are safe for return. Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-killing-alex-pretti https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-killing-alex-pretti A second American citizen killed by federal agents during Minneapolis immigration enforcement protests. The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti — both unarmed U.S. citizens — during a single enforcement operation constituted a pattern of excessive force that prompted bipartisan calls for accountability. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Extrajudicial Killing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/press-freedom-violations https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/press-freedom-violations 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 the detention of reporters in foreign countries covering US deportation operations. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Press Freedom https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-deportation-flight-expansion https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/ice-deportation-flight-expansion 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 surged 132%. Airlines increasingly concealed flight details from public tracking. Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cameroon-deportee-torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/cameroon-deportee-torture 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. Journalists attempting to document conditions were detained. HRW documented systematic abuses including enforced disappearances and rape. Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation to Torture https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/haiti-deportation-to-danger https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/haiti-deportation-to-danger The US deported Haitians to a country the FAA banned US airlines from landing in due to gang gunfire, where 90% of the capital is under gang control and 1.4 million are displaced. DHS terminated TPS for 348,000 Haitians while the State Department maintained a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory. Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/workplace-raids-mass-arrests https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/workplace-raids-mass-arrests 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 triggered diplomatic incidents and devastated communities dependent on immigrant labor. Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/greenland-panama-sovereignty-threats https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/greenland-panama-sovereignty-threats 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 Greenland threats under international pressure. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/icc-sanctions https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/icc-sanctions The administration imposed escalating sanctions on ICC officials -- including judges and prosecutors -- for investigating US citizens and allies, obstructing international criminal accountability and drawing broad condemnation from the UN and international legal community. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/venezuela-naval-blockade https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/venezuela-naval-blockade 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 Congressional authorization. Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/deportation-traps-due-process https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/deportation-traps-due-process 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, in absentia orders tripling to 50,000, and 'rocket dockets' processing cases too fast for legal representation destroyed systematic access to due process. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/veteran-deportations https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/veteran-deportations 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 94,000 non-citizen veterans face potential deportation. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/birthright-citizenship-order https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/birthright-citizenship-order 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. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/solitary-confinement-surge https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/solitary-confinement-surge 10,500+ people subjected to solitary confinement in immigration detention over 14 months, with usage surging under the Trump administration. Nearly 75% of placements exceeded the UN's 15-day torture threshold. DHS oversight offices were simultaneously decimated from 150 to 22 staff. Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/refugee-resettlement-suspension https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/refugee-resettlement-suspension 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 families who had sold their belongings for the journey. Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/venezuela-tps-cancellation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/venezuela-tps-cancellation 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 itself has characterized as unstable and dangerous. Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/inspectors-general-mass-firing https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/inspectors-general-mass-firing Trump fired at least 17 inspectors general across the federal government without the advance notice to Congress that the Inspector General Act generally requires, and a later federal ruling said the notice failure violated the statute. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Federal Dismantlement https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/alien-enemies-act-mass-deportations https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/alien-enemies-act-mass-deportations 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 litigation over both process and statutory scope. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/military-border-deployments https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/military-border-deployments 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 separating military and civilian law enforcement dating to Reconstruction. Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Military Overreach https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/sanctions-un-special-rapporteur https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/sanctions-un-special-rapporteur 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. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Foreign Policy & War https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/remain-in-mexico-reimposition https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/remain-in-mexico-reimposition 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. MSF documented kidnapping rates as high as 75% among those returned under the policy. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/asylum-ban-executive-order https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/asylum-ban-executive-order 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 president 'cannot adopt an alternative immigration system which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted.' Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/mahmoud-khalil-political-deportation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/mahmoud-khalil-political-deportation 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 consequences,' establishing a dangerous precedent for using immigration enforcement to suppress political dissent. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/chnv-parole-termination https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/chnv-parole-termination 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 7-2 ruling, and DHS urged affected individuals to 'self-deport immediately.' Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/abrego-garcia-wrongful-deportation https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/abrego-garcia-wrongful-deportation 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 after the Supreme Court intervened. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Deportation & Immigration https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/anti-transgender-executive-orders https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/anti-transgender-executive-orders A sweeping executive order redefining sex across the federal government, with material consequences for transgender individuals in detention, healthcare, and civil documentation. Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Civil Rights https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/january-6-pardons https://trumpswarcrimes.com/incident/january-6-pardons 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 conspiracy. Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Rule of Law