The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

“The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.

The move, says one agency worker, will “severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable people.”

El Nuevo Día spoke with the partner and the attorney of a detained Dominican man about the unsanitary conditions they are experiencing while separated from their families

The Supreme Court achieved what law professors believe to be the biggest instantaneous “de-documentation” of immigrants in U.S. history.

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