Biden Administration

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Venezuelan migrants attempting to seek asylum in the U.S. return home to conditions worse than what they fled

Mexico has become a reluctant receiving country for asylum-seekers to the U.S., including thousands of Venezuelan migrants who now have few options beyond returning home

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18 Min
By: Liliana Frankel, Cecilia Rangel López

Trump’s H-2 visa overhaul legislates indentured servitude, critics say

Low-wage migrant workers employed in agriculture, landscaping, construction, and other dangerous industries are more vulnerable than ever as Congress and lawmakers push to further erode workers’ rights

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12 Min
By: Maurizio Guerrero

After massive cuts at the Centers for Disease Control, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation efforts?

Massive cuts at the CDC and growing hostility toward vaccination under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the public more vulnerable to the ongoing threat of COVID-19, experts say

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6 Min
By: Laura Weiss

She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.

A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program, and when they are granted visas, they report being funneled into non-agricultural labor where they face sexual violence and trafficking

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29 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

A slave society: America upholds its long history of subjugation

Millions of unmoored and undocumented people are being punished at an accelerated pace for the crime of having enriched the wealthiest country on Earth

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7 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani

Trump administration drops Idaho emergency abortions case, sparking fears among health care workers

The lawsuit was filed by the Biden administration to ensure that pregnant people in Idaho could access emergency abortion care, as required by federal law

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Legal threat to long-standing disability law sets precedent for future civil rights attacks, advocates warn

Texas v. Becerra targets Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act after the Biden administration included gender dysphoria as a protected disability

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4 Min
By: Shruti Rajkumar

Activists fighting HIV criminalization laws say they’ve lost federal government as partner

The Biden administration sued Tennessee over targeting people living with HIV, most of whom were Black, but Trump has canceled potential future efforts in other states

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4 Min
By: Adam Rhodes

Chicago’s quick mobilization of resources for new migrants reopened wounds in America’s most segregated city

Texas has sent 40,000 migrants to Chicago, fueling racial tensions in Black neighborhoods where residents have spent decades fighting for their communities’ needs

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14 Min
By: Ankur Singh

‘Categorical clemency’ offers new approach for incarcerated women to seek pardons and commutations

Advocacy groups like ACLU-NJ are promoting “categorical clemency” to put forth petitions for groups of people with shared lived experiences

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Advocates for Aafia Siddiqui make final plea to Biden for clemency

A petition to free the Pakistani neuroscientist has gained more than 540,000 signatures while diplomatic negotiations continue

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5 Min
By: Sam Judy

Palestinians urge court to rehear lawsuit accusing Biden administration of complicity in Israel’s genocide 

Amicus briefs from legal scholars, civil rights groups, and former diplomats poured in this week in support of a petition to rehear the case, which was previously dismissed

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

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