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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is preparing to implement a sweeping change to birthright citizenship policy that would deny automatic U.S. citizenship to some children born on American soil, according to a government implementation plan made public Friday.
On Tuesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed a report from Human Rights Watch about “abusive practices” at migrant detention centers in Florida during her daily press conference. Sheinbaum said she believed 14 Mexican citizens were being held in these detention centers. She further said Mexican officials are reviewing whether “human rights violations” had been committed at “Alligator Alcatraz” and indicated her government would consider filing complaints if this was found to have occurred.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, affirming a lower-court decision that blocked its enforcement nationwide.
We are witnessing an assault on fair housing and fair lending by this administration as the nation is in the throes of a fair and affordable housing crisis,” said Nikitra Bailey, executive vice president at the National Fair Housing Alliance. She warns that the changes “will open the floodgates to predatory conduct in the housing market.
The U.S. Supreme Court this month allowed the Trump administration to continue with its plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and shutter seven of its 12 Office for Civil Rights locations.
South Florida communities are on edge after the Trump administration revealed a concerning memo, confirming that immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement can now be deported from the country with as little as six hours’ notice.
More than 250 of the nearly 750 people currently being held at the Trump administration’s premiere wetland-themed concentration camp have no criminal conviction or pending criminal charges. Only a third of detainees have had criminal convictions in the United States, ranging from attempted murder to traffic violations.
In May, the Department of Energy quietly introduced a proposal to eliminate its longstanding requirement that new buildings receiving funds from the agency be accessible to disabled people—a rule in effect across the federal government since 1980, thanks to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.