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Editorial: Trump crackdown strips rights from immigrants, TPS holders, and citizens' children

Aug 31, 2026

This editorial examines the Trump administration's expanding immigration crackdown, noting over half of July arrests involved people with no criminal record. The Supreme Court allowed Temporary Protected Status to expire for Haitians and others, putting over a million people at risk of deportation. The piece also highlights an ICE policy denying bond hearings to migrants arrested inside the U.S., deportation efforts against student activists like Mahmoud Khalil, and an estimated 100,000 children separated from parents, most of them U.S. citizens.

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