thecrueltyisthepoint

Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the #Trump admin to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors in #immigration proceedings.

“Terminating funding for direct #LegalRepresentation for unaccompanied #children, without any plan to ensure continuity in representation, potentially violates Congress's express directive….”

#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Constitution #RightToCounsel #6thAmendment #CivilRights #HumanRights
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.447078/gov.uscourts.cand.447078.33.0.pdf

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#Trump Halts #HIV Drug Distribution in Poor Countries

#PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as #Republican critics had hoped.

The Trump admin has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV #medications purchased w/ US aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained & are sitting in local clinics.

#ForeignAid #AIDS #health #USpol #nationalism #ForeignPolicy #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/health/pepfar-trump-freeze.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Trump fires #USAID #IG one day after blistering report

The WH fired the independent inspector general for the US Agency for International Development on Tues evening, a day after his office issued a blistering report assessing the impact of the Trump admin’s efforts to significantly curtail the agency’s mission.

#law #aid #SoftPower #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general/

[This time around, #Trump isn’t just separating & jailing #immigrants, he’s separating & jailing families who are long time residents.]

THE #IMMIGRANT FAMILIES JAILED IN #TEXAS

#Children have long been put in migrant #detention if they were apprehended at the #border. Today, lawyers have found, #families are being removed from stable lives in the #UnitedStates.

#immigration #law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #EthnicCleansing
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-immigrant-families-jailed-in-texas

Horrifying!

A 2-year-old #UScitizen was deported ‘with no meaningful process,’ a judge suspects.

A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the #Trump admin had deported a 2-year-old US #citizen to #Honduras “with no meaningful process” & against the wishes of her father.

#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #DueProcess #judiciary
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html?smid=url-share

#Trump ofcls deny #UScitizen #children were ‘deported’ to #Honduras

#TomHoman, Trump’s border czar, insisted Sunday that the Trump admin did not “deport” American children to Honduras — arguing that the White House sent the children to the country because their mothers, who were being deported, wished to bring them.

#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Rendition #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/27/trump-deportation-citizens-children/

#RecklessEndangerment

A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an #immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts.

#ICE agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with.

#law #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/

#HarveyMilk served in the #Navy, #Trump's Secy of the US Navy John Phelan didn’t.

During #Pride month #PeteHegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of #GayRights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship

A defense official confirmed that the Navy was making preparations to strip the ship of its name…. The official also said that the timing of the announcement — occurring during #PrideMonth — was intentional.

#LGBTQ #discrimination #bigotry #ignorance #hate #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #military
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html

#MahmoudKhalil permitted to hold newborn son for the first time despite objections from the #Trump admin

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Detained #Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump admin’s efforts to keep the father & infant separated by a plexiglass barrier.

#law #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #FirstAmendment #dissent #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-louisiana-immigration-406c341b8edf1f92dc44695cefcd8f8c

The chaos that unfolded in #LosAngeles over the weekend was sparked by …#ICE raids at #workplaces, a controversial #policy that seems designed to appease the #Trump admin’s desire to increase the number of #deportations at all costs.

The policy to #raid workplaces, reportedly pushed by WH Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller & other top #Trump admin ofcls, comes as ICE has tried to increase its deportation numbers.

#immigration #law #CivilRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/la-protest-ice-raid-trump-immigration-dhs-national-guard-workplace-raid/

The People Being #Disappeared by #ICE in #LosAngeles

As communities across Southern #California document & #protest the escalating #raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.

In Los Angeles in recent weeks, a popular phrase has been revived on protest signs & social-media posts: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo,” or, “only the people can save the people.”

#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-los-angeles/the-people-being-disappeared-by-ice-in-los-angeles