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Organizers Call for Shutdown of Immigrant Jails as Trump Expands Incarceration
Despite public outrage, Trump is doubling down on deportation policies designed to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants.

Trump Admin Seeks 1-Day Sentence for Cop Convicted in Killing of Breonna Taylor
The Trump administration is effectively seeking impunity for the police in the killing that sparked nationwide protest.

Dozens Disappeared on El Salvador Deportation Trips, Flight Logs Reveal
“We pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else,” said one immigrant rights advocate.

Trump’s Tax Law Seeks to Override Rules Protecting Children in Immigration Jail
Tucked into the legislation are provisions that pave the way for migrant children to face longer periods in detention.

Trump Admin’s Focus on Child Labor After California Raids Is a Bait and Switch
The Trump administration’s raids are part of the same immigration system that makes child labor conditions possible.

Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State
It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.

Trump Plans to Hand Taxpayer Data to Homeland Security to Speed Up Deportations
The system, which would enable sharing of massive amounts of sensitive data, may be launched before the end of July.

Rep. Maxwell Frost: Trump Admin Is “Trying to Ethnically Cleanse” the US
Democratic lawmakers are blasting the horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration jail in the Everglades.

“Tax-Dodging Consultant” Is Now the US Treasury’s Top Tax Policy Official
As a lobbyist, Ken Kies secured tax giveaways for major corporations. Now, he’s helping implement the GOP budget bill.

Climate Erasure Replaces Climate Denial Under Trump Administration
The days of loudly debating the science have mostly given way to an effort to withhold the raw information itself.