Category archive

Civil Rights

Targeting minorities, suppressing dissent, political persecution, and denial of protected rights

Records in this lens

3 incidents

Executive Order Attempting to Restrict Fourteenth Amendment Birthright Citizenship

An executive order attempting to override the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship guarantee by executive fiat, blocked by every court to consider it and now before the Supreme Court.

  • EO 14160 attempted to deny citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to parents without lawful permanent status.
  • Four federal district courts and two appeals courts blocked the order as unconstitutional.

Deportation Proceedings Against Mahmoud Khalil for Pro-Palestine Protest Activity

A Columbia graduate student with a green card was arrested by ICE for his role in Gaza solidarity protests and ordered deported on the novel grounds that his speech posed 'adverse foreign policy consequences,' establishing a dangerous precedent for using immigration enforcement to suppress political dissent.

  • Khalil was a lawful permanent resident (green card holder) arrested from his Columbia University campus apartment by ICE.
  • When ICE learned he held a green card rather than a student visa, agents said that status would be revoked too.

Executive Orders Targeting Transgender Rights and Gender Identity Recognition

A sweeping executive order redefining sex across the federal government, with material consequences for transgender individuals in detention, healthcare, and civil documentation.

  • EO 14168 defines gender as an immutable male-female binary determined 'at conception,' rejecting gender identity as a legal category.
  • Transgender individuals in federal custody must be housed according to birth sex, increasing documented risk of sexual violence.