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A detained person sits on the floor under a blanket in a locked intake holding area during a 2019 media tour of an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington. Last week, NPR released a report exposing the overcrowding, starvation, and medical neglect in Florida’s immigration detention centers. It reinforces what has long been documented abo ...

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Trump’s War on Nonprofits Will Make Us All Less Safe

Nonprofits have long done essential work to keep communities safe, but Trump has established a clear playbook to coerce and control them: strip their federal funding, investigate and intimidate them, and threaten their charitable tax status.

Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, testifies before the congressional Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on June 4, 2025. Last week, the congressional Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency gathered at the Capitol to attack nonprofits in a hearing called Public Funds, Private Agendas ...

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What Does “Due Process” Mean for Immigrants and Why Is It Important?

Immigrants have rights in the United States. Yet the Trump administration is trampling firmly established constitutional principles that should protect all people, regardless of where they were born.

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