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Protesters gather at the Los Angeles International Airport on January 29th, 2017, to demonstrate against President Donald Trump's travel ban.

Social Justice

Los Angeles Is About to Vote Over Whether to Surveil Muslim Americans

The Trump administration has directed funds originally intended to counter radicalization—including white nationalist violence—toward the targeted surveillance of Muslim communities.

Massoud Hayoun

Immigrant rights advocates participate in rally against the ICE on June 1st, 2018, in New York City.

Social Justice

Inside the Occupy ICE Movement Sweeping the Nation

Activists behind the movement say their ranks are swelling by the day with people opposed to the White House's raids and separation of immigrant families.

Massoud Hayoun

A migrant woman rests at her tent at Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana on June 20th, 2018.

Social Justice

Trump’s Family Separation Reversal Still Leaves Children to Languish in Detention

Trump's call to modify Flores v. Reno follows similar gestures by the administration that could keep more kids in detention for longer.

Massoud Hayoun

Protesters hold signs during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 19th, 2018.

Social Justice

Could California Sue to Stop Trump’s Retaliatory ICE Raids?

The administration's weaponization of ICE may hurt its existing lawsuit against the Golden State's sanctuary protections, analysts say.

Massoud Hayoun

A mother and child await transport to a processing center for undocumented immigrants on July 24th, 2014, in Mission, Texas.

Social Justice

Advocates Fear the New Trump Administration Rule Will Keep Migrant Children in Detention for Even Longer

The ACLU warns that a new rule allowing the government to look into potential guardians' immigration status will leave the children with nowhere to go but detention facilities.

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Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Advocates Say Jeff Sessions Is ‘Trivializing Domestic Violence’

The attorney general's decision to bar domestic abuse survivors from obtaining asylum seems out of step with a country engaged in a burgeoning movement against assault, advocates say.

Massoud Hayoun

Hundreds of people attend an evening rally at Washington Square Park in support of Muslims and immigrants and against the building of a wall along the Mexican border on January 25th, 2017, in New York City.

Social Justice

Muslim Americans Are Perplexed by News of a White House Ramadan Dinner

Muslim-American leaders are suspicious of an administration that they say is hostile to their communities at home and abroad.

Massoud Hayoun

An undocumented woman from Peru holds her one-year-old son at their home in Thornton, Colorado.

Social Justice

Amid a Flurry of Immigration Scandals, Activists Stay Focused on the Trump Administration’s Separation of Families

As questions of children left unaccounted for by immigration authorities mount, rights advocates say the Trump administration's separation of parents and children remains the real issue.

Massoud Hayoun