Customs and Border Protection Is Separating Families Based on HIV Status
Health and Human Services removed HIV from a list of communicable diseases that bar immigrants from entry into the United States in 2010.
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Can We Be Sure Only Six Migrant Children Have Recently Died in Government Custody?
We now know of six children who died after spending time in government custody in the last eight months. Advocates and politicians have raised the alarm that there could be more.
Experts Have Wanted to Update the Poverty Line for Years—but Not the Way Trump Is Planning to Do It
Amid attacks on several food security programs from the Trump administration, this proposed change could ignite yet another debate about where we draw the line.
The Trump Administration Is Pushing to Regulate Transgender Americans Out of Their Legal Existence
Declaring sex immutable is, in effect, discrimination by legal re-categorization.
A New Government Report Finds the Trump Administration Could Do a Better Job Running Healthcare.gov
In 2018, 8.7 million people bought their non-group health insurance through healthcare.gov—down from 9.2 million people in 2017.
Legal Filings Reveal That Immigrant Shelters Are Overmedicating Unaccompanied Minors
Lawsuits agains the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services reveal a pattern of immigrant shelters prescribing powerful psychotropic drugs without receiving informed consent.
The Government May Have Deported 463 Migrant Parents Whose Children Remain in the U.S.
A progress reports shows that hundreds of migrant parents whose children remain in United States shelters may have been deported.
The Trump Administration Deems Dozens of Migrant Children ‘Ineligible’ for Reunification
Immigration officials provided a litany of reasons as to why the remaining 46 children were ineligible for reunification.
The Trump Administration Will Only Reunite Half of the Youngest Migrant Children With Their Parents by Tuesday
The Tuesday deadline was imposed last month by a federal judge.
The U.S. Government Asks for More Time to Reunite Migrant Families
A federal judge ordered HHS last week to begin reuniting families by July 10th.