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    What is Actually Happening with DACA?

    What is Actually Happening with DACA?

    Diana Pliego

    Published Oct 3, 2025 There’s a lot of chatter going around about what is happening with Deferred Action for...

    The Price of Cruelty: How Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Endangers Us All

    The Price of Cruelty: How Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Endangers Us All

    Sarah Krieger

    Published Oct 3, 2025 The Trump administration’s immigration agenda directly harms our collective economy, health,...

    Trump Administration’s Attempts to Dismantle Language Access Do Not Erase Civil Rights Law

    Trump Administration’s Attempts to Dismantle Language Access Do Not Erase Civil Rights Law

    Joanna E. Cuevas Ingram and Ben D’Avanzo

    Published Aug 7, 2025 This commentary describes the new DOJ guidance, the current state of language access and civil rights requirements, and expected next steps for the federal government.

    What New Federal Notices Mean for Immigrants’ Program Eligibility

    What New Federal Notices Mean for Immigrants’ Program Eligibility

    Tanya Broder and Ben D’Avanzo

    Published Jul 23, 2025 Five federal agencies have issued notices reinterpreting which federal programs may be restricted to certain categories of immigrants. These notices illustrate the administration’s harmful willingness to undermine the well-being of families...

    Video: We Get There Together

    Video: We Get There Together

    Published Jul 22, 2025 For too long, immigration has been used as an issue to divide working people and protect the...

    Speaking Up: My Story And Why Your Voice Matters

    Speaking Up: My Story And Why Your Voice Matters

    Daniel Gallegos

    Published Jul 22, 2025 DACA helped open doors for me, but far too many never had that chance. That is why we must call on Congress to act.

    Análisis del fallo de la Suprema Corte en el caso Trump v. CASA

    Análisis del fallo de la Suprema Corte en el caso Trump v. CASA

    Efrén C. Olivares

    Published Jun 27, 2025 Hoy, la Corte Suprema decidió el caso Trump vs. CASA, el cual impugna la Orden Ejecutiva...

    Analyzing the Supreme Court’s Dangerous Decision in Trump v. CASA

    Analyzing the Supreme Court’s Dangerous Decision in Trump v. CASA

    Efrén C. Olivares

    Published Jun 27, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court decided the case of Trump v. CASA, a challenge to Executive Order...

    9 Things to Know About the Reconciliation Bill

    9 Things to Know About the Reconciliation Bill

    Heidi Altman and Ben D’Avanzo

    Published Jun 18, 2025 Congressional Republicans are working to pass a bill that would remove some of the few remaining limits on the Trump administration’s hateful vision for America.

    We Can’t Forget the Disappeared Dads this Father’s Day

    We Can’t Forget the Disappeared Dads this Father’s Day

    Isobel Mohyeddin

    Published Jun 12, 2025 Instead of celebrating Fathers’ Day with their loved ones this weekend, hundreds of men trapped incommunicado inside CECOT will be marking three months since they were first locked away in a torture...

    The House Reconciliation Bill’s Tax Provisions Will Increase Poverty and Penalize Immigrants 

    The House Reconciliation Bill’s Tax Provisions Will Increase Poverty and Penalize Immigrants 

    Ben D’Avanzo

    Published Jun 10, 2025 Under the House-passed reconciliation bill, the tax code would be transformed into a system where immigrants subsidize trillions of dollars in tax breaks for wealthy citizens.

    Trump’s Newest Xenophobic Travel Ban

    Trump’s Newest Xenophobic Travel Ban

    Heidi Altman

    Published Jun 4, 2025 On June 4, 2025, President Trump issued a proclamation that shuts off the ability of people...

    How the House Budget Bill Attacks Health Care and Nutrition for Immigrants, Children, and Everyone Else

    How the House Budget Bill Attacks Health Care and Nutrition for Immigrants, Children, and Everyone Else

    Ben D’Avanzo and Matthew Lopas

    Published Jun 3, 2025 U.S. law is already unfairly restrictive for federal programs. Now, Congress is angling to make our laws even more cruel and regressive.

    The House Reconciliation Bill Threatens Working Families and Our Democracy

    The House Reconciliation Bill Threatens Working Families and Our Democracy

    Heidi Altman and Ben D’Avanzo

    Published May 19, 2025 Congressional Republicans are working to pass a bill that would remove some of the few remaining limits on the Trump administration’s hateful vision for America.

    Mass Deportations, the Economy, and You

    Mass Deportations, the Economy, and You

    Amrit Cheng

    Published Apr 16, 2025 If you think mass deportations don’t have anything to do with you, think again.