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Her story is at once exceptionally tragic and a paradigmatic example of how our immigration legal system is failing — and tearing families apart.

Last Friday was a banner day for religious favoritism in the Trump administration.

Fifty years after the enactment of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), housing discrimination remains a national disgrace in the United States. Across the country, a growing tide of housing providers, perhaps emboldened by Trump’s anti-“other” rhetoric, discriminate against the very communities the FHA was designed to protect. In 2017 alone, there were nearly 29,000 reported complaints of housing discrimination across the country. Despite growing diversity in population, residential segregation persists at alarming rates hurting local schools, property values, and much more. Just this year, Black homeownership rates dropped to a record low of 40.6% which is the lowest level recorded by the Census Bureau since 1950.

Congress is set to examine one of the most speech protective laws ever enacted as some lawmakers consider rolling back the law's protections.

The state of California just made it clear: Face recognition surveillance isn’t inevitable. We can — and should — fight hard to protect our communities from this dystopian technology.

In three cases at the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is arguing it’s legal to fire workers for being LGBTQ.

Cruelty is not an immigration policy.

CBP officers are forcibly returning pregnant asylum-seekers to Mexico in violation of their own rules.

Fast, cheap, and easy-to-use can be a recipe for misuse.