Trump extorts sanctuary cities

• Trump threatens sanctuary cities with a loss of funding that would cause serious and ongoing harm to local governments and residents. Citing the irreparable harm that Trump would cause, a federal judge blocked part of Trump’s order.

Trump revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) cuts “a lifeline for migrant families” 

• Trump revoked deportation protections for 350,000 Venezuelans, exposing thousands to the risk of being sent back to a country struggling with political repression and economic collapse.

• The federal judge halted the deportations ruling, writing that the decision, allegedly because the immigrants are criminals,  “smacks of racism.” Trump is also trying to revoke the protections for 550,000 Haitians, even as their country remains in extreme turmoil.

• Trump directs immigration judges to ignore due process for asylum claims they deem "legally deficient." Judges can dismiss 'weak' asylum cases early, bypassing lengthy hearings that typically take years due to a backlog of nearly 4 million cases.

• Trump arrested a Milwaukee County judge who his FBI accused of protecting an immigrant who appeared before her in court from ICE. However, ICE arrested the immigrant after the court hearing. 

Trump allows white Afrikaners into the U.S. after shutting refugees from other countries

• Trump allowed 49 white, Afrikaners from South Africa into the U.S. under a humanitarian rule that he suspended for all other groups around the world. Trump alleged that their land is being seized even though no land has been taken by the government. “Now, to have a group that didn’t flee their country, that has historically enjoyed tremendous privilege in the country and that are white, provides a cruel racial twist to the suspension of refugee resettlement,” commented Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch.

Trump Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison by Mistake

And deports other immigrants and American citizens illegally

• Trump deported Maryland father, Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador despite his having protected legal status in the U.S. Trump claims he has no ability to bring him back to the U.S. The Supreme Court agreed with a lower court ruling that Garcia had to be brought back to the U.S. although the administration dragged its feet to follow that order.

• Abrego Garcia is far from alone. Trump’s migrant purge has resulted in the detention and deportation of legal immigrants and people with no criminal records. He even deported a 10 year old American citizen with brain cancer when her parents sought medical attention. 

• Trump deported a 2-year old American citizen after her mother made a regular check-in with ICE. A federal judge, who has a long record of supporting Trump, said she was deported with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

• Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants was ruled illegal by a Trump appointed judge, who ruled that the act only applied when the U.S. faced an armed, organized attack.

Trump authorizes ICE raids in schools, churches and hospitals.

• Trump reversed previous protections, allowing immigration raids in schools, churches, and hospitals. School districts in the Phoenix Arizona area are resisting Trump’s threats to have ICE come into school buildings. Noting that immigrant children have a constitutional right to an education the Phoenix Union district told parents, ““We know there is fear and uncertainty in our community. Please know we remain fully committed to providing schools of opportunity that welcome love and inspire all students to go places and do things that matter.”

•  Trump’s attempt at arresting  immigrants in California based on their skin color was put on hold by a federal judge, as the law requires some legally sound reason to suspect that the person is in the U.S. illegally. ICE picked up Hispanic farm workers and day laborers with no indication of their immigration status. 

Trump Escalated His War on Immigrant Families

• Trump blocked undocumented students from receiving in-state tuition while falsely branding entire cities as lawless—despite outcry from groups like Mi Familia Vota, which called these attacks "morally repugnant" and harmful to tax-paying families.

• Trump pressured local jails to detain immigrants for ICE and threatened to prosecute judges like Milwaukee’s. Immigration advocates warn that these tactics will tear apart communities while doing nothing to improve public safety.

Trump takes away health care coverage from Dreamers

• Trump proposed to end health insurance coverage under the ACA for “Dreamers,”  undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S.A. when they were children. Dreamers can now get coverage in 31 states. 

Trump took immigrants off of Social Security declaring them dead

• Trump’s  Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, eliminating their ability to legally earn wages or to receive the Social Security benefits they have earned and paid for.