Many people who are legally entitled to food, housing and health benefits will lose access to them.
Immigration
Places of worship are harboring families facing deportation, defying the law but fulfilling a moral imperative.
Meanwhile, far-right European leaders continue to criminalize refugees and migrants.
The administration is ending a protection that allows people to stay in the country while receiving life-saving care.
Under the new rules, the Trump administration would incarcerate migrant families with little oversight.
In the 1930s, the public charge clause was used to deny hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees entry to the U.S.
The Trump administration aims to indefinitely detain migrant children and their families, reversing decades of policy.
When migrants are denied translation assistance, their rights fall by the wayside.
At least 26 people have died after being held in immigration custody since Trump took office, including six children.
“The intervention of state agencies and social service agencies functions as a legalized kidnapping,” the staffer says.