President Trump’s mass deportation agenda threatens to dramatically escalate the use of detention, a system plagued by abuse and neglect.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Constitution grants certain due process rights to citizens and noncitizens on United States soil. Though the country’s immigration system has never ensured those rights were fully and adequately respected, we are now witnessing an increasingly devastating attack on the right to due process for immigrants. What is due process? A core principle ...