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ICE Flight Monitor: ICE Air Flights Continue to Expand in February 2026 as Trump Administration Escalates Mass Deportation Campaign

ICE Air Operations continued its rapid expansion in February 2026, with new charter carriers and record daily domestic ...
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ICE Flight Monitor: February 2026 Report

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, that are legally ...
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Holds Public Hearing on the Impact of the United States’s Forced Deportations to Third Countries

A coalition of 22 immigrants’ rights organizations participated today in a public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as part of the IACHR’s 195th session held in ...
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U.S. Global Magnitsky and Related Sanctions

End of Year Update This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the U.S. government’s use of its targeted human rights and anticorruption sanctions programs from July 1, 2025 to ...
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Domestic Extremism in America: Examining White Supremacist Violence in the Wake of Recent Attacks

Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, and esteemed members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this critical discussion on examining white supremacist violence in the ...
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A Year After Del Rio, Haitian Asylum Seekers Expelled Under Title 42 Are Still Suffering

It’s now been a year since the U.S. government launched its “ comprehensive strategy ” in September 2021, resulting in the mass expulsion of Haitian people who arrived at the U.S. border in Del Rio, ...
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Human Rights First Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Initial Immigration Executive Actions

On the first day of the Trump-Vance Administration, the President issued a host of anti-immigrant and -refugee Executive Orders that undermine our national security, tarnish our global reputation, and ...
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ICE Flight Monitor: August 2025 Report

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics to achieve this objective, ...
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Stop Enabling ICE’s Dangerous Detention and Reckless Deportation Drive Oppose Additional Funding in the FY2026 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill

Congress is poised to further balloon the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) already bloated budget, expanding ICE’s sprawling detention apparatus at a time of record deaths in detention. The ...
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ICE Flight Monitor: September 2025 Report

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics to achieve this objective, ...