By Yana Sliemzina, editor and reporter for GWARA MEDIA in Kharkiv, Ukraine and Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor Human Rights ...

The Department of Homeland Security announced it would revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghanistan, putting thousands of Afghans in the United States at risk of deportation. Just weeks ...

Human Rights First condemns the Trump administration’s extensive travel ban Proclamation that will fully restrict and limit travel to the United States by nationals from a series of countries, ...

Human Rights First has researched and documented the impacts of the asylum ban, heightened screening standards, and deportation in reports from July and October 2023. The current discussion of U.S.

By Gretchen Klingler On Saturday, Veterans for American Ideals will join democracy minded organizations and individuals to support the No Kings Day protests—not because we oppose celebrating America’s ...

A Reconciliation Bill passed by the House of Representatives in May 2025 that is under consideration by the Senate imposes a barrage of cruel and punitive anti-immigrant provisions, including ...

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 ...

I went to St. Thomas’s Hospital in London to visit Dr. Laila Soueif, who is on a protracted hunger strike to draw attention ...

WHAT IS XENOPHOBIA & ANTI-IMMIGRANT EXTREMISM? Xenophobia and anti-immigrant extremism perpetuate the idea that immigrants, or people who are perceived to be “foreign” or “outsiders,” threaten America ...

On May 11, 2023, the Biden administration initiated a new bar on asylum through its Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule. Often referred to as an “asylum ban,” the bar is structured to deny asylum, ...

Asylum is a legal status that the U.S. government can grant to people who are at risk of harm in their home countries because of who they are—because of their religion, political opinion, sexual ...