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Deported for Innocent Tattoos?

People are allegedly being classified as gang members for tattoos of crowns, clocks, and soccer logos.

Reason · Apr 1, 2025

US lawmakers to vote on bill targeting noncitizen voting: ‘There would be extensive uncertainty’

The Save Act aims at eliminating rare instances noncitizens vote – by making voter registration more difficult

The Guardian - US · Apr 1, 2025

How the Trump administration is using tattoos to lock up immigrants in El Salvador

Venezuelan men in streetwear with Michael Jordan and autism awareness tattoos could add up enough ‘points’ for their removal from the United States, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2025

Democrats can’t keep up with Trump’s ‘flood the zone’ deportation strategies

ANALYSIS: Analysis: The Trump administration is launching an assault on constitutional rights for noncitizens. Democrats are on the sidelines, writes John Bowden

The Independent UK · Mar 27, 2025

‘This is injustice’: inside Trump’s attack on funding for LGBTQ+ arts

The president has demanded that the National Endowment for the Arts denies grants to projects promoting ‘gender ideology’, leading to protest and legal action

The Guardian - US · Mar 25, 2025

Transgender Americans aim to block Trump's passport policy change

A federal judge will consider whether to block a Trump administration policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers

The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2025

US appeals court weighs Trump’s deportations under Alien Enemies Act

One judge questioned whether Nazi defendants received more due process in the US than Venezuelans deported under Trump.

Al Jazeera · Mar 24, 2025

Their Kids Said They Were Trans. Then CPS Came Knocking.

Across the country, parents of gender-dysphoric kids are confronting state intrusion.

Reason · Mar 22, 2025

Here’s what you need to know about your rights when entering the US

Trump’s hardline immigration policy is sweeping up even visa and green-card holders into detention centers

The Guardian - US · Mar 22, 2025

US denies entry to French scientist over 'hateful' messages

France has expressed concern after US border agents read the contents of a visiting French space scientist's smartphone and deported him after accusing him of "hateful" messages against US policy.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 20, 2025