Immigration authorities should focus on “the troublemakers,” not on people who are “working and paying their taxes… All of us, if we look back in history, including the president, we have somebody that came to this country for the American dream.”
Keep readingWith their health insurance premiums set to jump from $800 to $2,000, a Florida couple finds themselves in a tight spot. They’ve got plenty of company.
Keep readingA Louisiana fisherman’s take on the Trump administration and its energy policy: “We’re sending twice the equipment out, fishing twice as hard, and making about a sixth or eight of the money.”
Keep readingWhen ICE moved to deport her to Hong Kong, the town of Kennet, Missouri, responded with a loud cry of “Bring Carol Home!”
Keep readingA Pittsburgh teacher built three childcare centers with help from a federal lending program now put in limbo by the Trump administration
Keep readingKentucky is expected to lose nearly $11 billion in Medicaid funding over the next decade. That’s bad news for rural hospitals and the people who depend on them.
Keep reading“It’s time to get her OUT and hire a new guy for the job!” Hours after a rightwing group tweeted that advice, the White House folllowed it.
Keep readingA Facebook post led to a barrage of threatening phone calls and text messages. She reported them to her employer. The upshot: she lost her job.
Keep readingWith her fridge “pretty much empty,” she’s been relying on rice, canned food, and the dwindling contents of her freezer.
Keep readingWith ACA subsidies set to expire, this Salt Lake City filmmaker could see his monthly insurance fees jump from $335 to more than $700 — not counting $1,400 a month in medical supplies he can’t live without.
Keep readingMother of three. No criminal record. Nearly 30 years in the U.S. Nabbed on her way to the grocery to buy ingredients for a stew she planned to cook for her children.
Keep readingThey voted for Donald Trump twice. A traffic stop on the way to the dentist’s led them to reassess.
Keep readingSNAP recipients are “totally normal families. It’s not something I feel shame over, in the same way that I’m sure people in other countries don’t feel shame over having healthcare.”
Keep readingA double amputee and “a fixture” in his Georgia community, threatened with deportation to a country he could not remember.
Keep readingMarried to a Marine Corps Vet. No criminal record. On the path to citizenship. Two small children, one still breast-feeding. Detained by ICE.
Keep readingThey told him his ID was “fake” and detained him in handcuffs for more than an hour before confirming his Social Security number and letting him go.
Keep readingSocial Security says it is she who owes the system money, not the other way around. But no one has been able to tell her why, and “My rent is due.”
Keep readingA 13-year-old is seized by ICE and sent to a detention center more than 500 miles from his home and his mother.
Keep readingU.S. citizen, Iraq War veteran, father of two. Tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and held for three days with no access to a lawyer or a phone call to his family.
Keep reading“I’ve been fired, I’ve been targeted, I’ve been villainized. And now they’re shooting at my kid’s day care.”
Keep readingIn the wrong place at the wrong time, delivering strawberries near the scene of a Border Patrol action and a governor’s press conference.
Keep readingTwo months in ICE detention after 47 years in the U.S. “It’s just crazy that this is even allowed in this country… It shouldn’t be even thought that this should be OK.”
Keep readingNorth Carolina’s Small Farmer of the Year says he “never thought I was going to lose this much money this fast.”
Keep readingThe administration tries to halt a wind power project that is 80% finished. “We’re not going to sit down and take this lightly. We’re going to fight you at every step of the way.”
Keep readingArrested by fluke, she self-deported after six harrowing months in a privately-run immigrant detention center.
Keep readingNo, we’re not about to annex Canada. But all that annexation talk has taken a toll on the economy of northern Vermont.
Keep readingHe thought he had done everything right. His roofing-company employees had valid work permits, pending asylum claims, and clean records since their arrival in the U.S.
Keep readingFleeing anti-gay prejudice in Venezuela, he applied for asylum in the U.S. Before he could plead his case, the Trump administration shipped him to El Salvador and into a prison described by its warden as a “cemetery for the living dead.”
Keep readingOne potential casualty of Trump budget cuts: help for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking in the State of Maine.
Keep readingThe administration tapped him to serve as Acting Director of the FBI. Then it booted him out of the bureau.
Keep readingThe Oregon Wine Board gave him its annual Vineyard Excellence Award in 2020. Five years later, he was deported to Mexico.
Keep readingThe price of a Colombian immigrant’s quest for political asylum: five days imprisoned in an O’Hare Airport hotel room with her infant son – and no way to tell anybody.
Keep readingGetting laid off is a career setback for most people. It can be a life-wrecker for others.
Keep readingWhen Elon Musk fed USAID into the “wood chipper,” Jennifer Nielsen lost a job she loved. An estimated 600-700,000 people have lost their lives. Roughly two-thirds of them are children.
Keep readingAfter 25 years in the U.S., raising a family and working a steady job at a meat-packing plant, she was locked up and threatened with deportation.
Keep readingHe became Georgia’s poster boy for the Medicaid reforms the Trump administration hopes to make across he country. It didn’t work out well for him.
Keep readingThis Trump supporter can’t figure why the administration would cancel in-person classes at the National Fire Academy.
Keep reading“I was heartbroken… it was something I was planning on potentially making a lifelong career.”
Keep readingShe lost her job as a middle school history teacher for posting an “Everyone is welcome here” sign in her classroom.
Keep readingMarried to an American and on track to U.S. citizenship, she was returning from a honeymoon trip to Puerto Rico when she got arrested and put in a detention camp. Her husband voted for Trump.
Keep reading“The case advocates are averaging over 120 cases per person, and you’re letting everybody go. How does that help the taxpayer?”
Keep readingShe gave pre-natal advice and support for low-income women. “I thought our work was bipartisan,” Kane said after being fired.
Keep readingAn expert at finding domestic sources of rare-earth metals. Fired by an Administration promising to make the U.S. less dependent on imports.
Keep readingShe helped residents of New Jersey and New York find affordable homes and avoid eviction.
Keep readingA family farmer counting on a USDA program to help pay for a solar-energy project. Her funding has been frozen.
Keep readingHe worries about losing his cattle farm because of cuts to a program that promised to help him upgrade his water lines, wells and fencing. “I’ve already done a bunch of the work, already paid for the material and the labor, so I’m out all that cost.”
Keep readingShe welcomed veterans at a mental health clinic. Now there’s a sign telling vets to call their therapist if the door is locked.
Keep readingHis job – enforcing safety rules for e-cigarettes and vapes – was funded out of tobacco-industry fees. He got fired anyway.
Keep readingHe worked at a VA hospital keeping track of critical supplies. He got fired along with nearly half of his shift-mates.
Keep readingAfter ten years in the Marine Corps, with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, Lennox found work at a VA hospital where he bonded with older vets and checked invoices for fraud and waste. Two months later, Lennox got a form email telling him, falsely, that he was being fired for poor performance.
Keep readingWhat didn’t happen? Trump’s promise to make IVF free. What did? Cooper lost her job and her health insurance.
Keep readingFired along with nearly 900 employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Their offense: being part of the “Climate change alarm industry.”
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