New Medicaid Work Rules Likely to Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard
By Samantha Liss and Sam Whitehead, KFF Health News Posted February 26, 2026 Lori Kelley’s deteriorating vision has made it hard for her to find steady work. …
The Children of Dilley
By Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez had been held at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, with her mother for some 45 days when I managed…
Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo
By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News Posted February 12, 2026 Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her…
‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, KFF Health News Posted on February 5, 2026 Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier,…
Immigrant Children Lead Uprising at Texas Detention Center
By Chris Walker, Truthout Posted January 29, 2026 An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the…
Deaths in Detention Warn of Horrors Behind ICE’s Prison Walls
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout Posted Jan. 22, 2026 All eyes are on the Trump administration’s brutal “immigration enforcement” operation in Minnesota, where roving squads of federal agents in…
Worried About Surveillance, States Enact Privacy Laws and Restrict License Plate Readers
By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline Posted January 15, 2026 As part of its deportation efforts, the Trump administration has ordered states to hand over personal data from voter…
Will Congress Act Against the President’s Lawlessness?
By Brad Reed, Common Dreams Posted January 8, 2026 President Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is generating fresh calls for his impeachment and removal from office. Shortly…
‘I Made My American Dream In My Country’: How Rancho Feliz is Confronting the Immigration Crisis at the Source
by Lorenzo Gomez, Cronkite News AGUA PRIETA, Mexico–It was Thanksgiving Day in 1987, and Gil Gillenwater (cover photo) sat comfortably in his home, preparing to stuff himself with…
Even as SNAP Resumes, New Work Rules Threaten Access for Years To Come
By Renuka Rayasam and Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss, KFF Health News Posted Dec. 11, 2025 Alejandro Santillan-García is worried he’s going to lose the aid that…