The Trump administration capped refugee admissions at 7,500 with nearly all slots reserved for Afrikaners (white South Africans), bypassing UN refugee processes and standard persecution criteria. The fast-tracking of white refugees while excluding people of color from war-torn regions demonstrates …
The Department of Housing and Urban Development fired civil rights lawyers Palmer Heenan and Paul Osadebe on September 29 for speaking publicly about their whistleblower complaint documenting the Trump administration’s systematic dismantling of fair housing enforcement. The lawyers were among …
A federal judge declined to block Trump’s elimination of over 1,600 National Science Foundation grants worth $1 billion, despite Congress having explicitly appropriated and authorized the funding. The cuts, pushed by unauthorized DOGE operatives operating outside legal channels, specifically …
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Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights division slashed from 550 to approximately 243 employees, leaving only 5 civil rights offices nationwide. Officials described this as making discrimination complaint resolution “virtually impossible.” Cuts part of Russell …
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