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    Why You Should Care About the Public Charge Rule and Its Racist Goals

    Matthew Lopas

    Published Dec 18, 2025 When the Department of Homeland Security released its proposed change to the public charge regulations last month, it was one more piece of the administration's broader agenda: racism. This vision is at the core of a presidential ideology that...

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    Trump’s Words Aren’t Just Insults—They’re Policy Signals

    Sheila Miller

    Published Dec 12, 2025 On December 2, 2025, President Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting wherein he verbally attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar, calling her “garbage,” and Somalia, the nation she came from, “barely a country.” These words reflect a continued effort to...

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    The Abuse in America’s Immigration System Upends the International Human Rights Mandate We Helped Create

    Published Dec 10, 2025 As we commemorate the 75th declaration of International Human Rights Day, which was established in December of 1950, it’s worth coming back to the question that’s been haunting our political landscape: what made America great? ...

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    Can Undocumented Immigrants Access Health Care?

    Ben D’Avanzo

    Published Dec 5, 2025 Setting the record straight about immigrants and public benefits.

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    Tell the Government You Don’t Want to Get Rid of the Current “Public Charge” Rule

    Published Nov 21, 2025 On November 19, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security published a proposed change in regulation that would alter the impact of “public charge.” This is a long-standing concept in the immigration system, but the Trump administration...

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    Clarifying Access: What New Federal SNAP Restrictions and Guidance Mean for Immigrant Communities

    Ben D’Avanzo and Sarah Krieger

    Published Nov 12, 2025 The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a lifeline that prevents millions of families from going hungry. The devastating budget bill passed last summer dramatically restricted eligibility for this program for many immigrants....

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    300,000 Lawfully Present Immigrants Will Be Newly Ineligible for Health Care Help in This Open Enrollment Period

    Ben D’Avanzo

    Published Oct 23, 2025 The 2025 reconciliation law enacted this summer imposed new restrictions on access to health...

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    ICE is detaining indiscriminately. And releasing almost no one.

    Heidi Altman

    Published Oct 21, 2025 Immigrants in detention and their loved ones and legal representatives are facing desperation...

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    Past is Precedent: When the U.S. Detained American Families in South Texas

    Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock

    Published Oct 17, 2025 From 1942 to 1948, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) operated an internment camp for...

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    They Traded Care for Cages: Documenting the Harm of the 2025 Reconciliation Act

    Isobel Mohyeddin

    Published Oct 15, 2025 This is the first of a blog series that will examine how the 2025 reconciliation act funding...

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    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...

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    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,...

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    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.

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    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...

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    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...