Alexandra Villarreal

1 week ago | sacurrent.com | Alexandra Villarreal

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Alexandra Villarreal

A US district judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore legal services for potentially thousands of migrant families after officials violated a historic settlement agreement that had forced the federal government to repair some of the devastating impact of the family separation scandal from the first Trump White House that sparked bipartisan uproar at the time.

1 week ago | hechingerreport.org | Steven Yoder |Felicia Mello |Alexandra Villarreal |Miles MacClure

A Black History Month event, canceled. A lab working to fight hunger, shuttered. Student visas revoked, then reinstated, uncertain for how long. Opportunities for students pursuing science careers, fading. The first six months of the Trump administration have brought a hailstorm of changes to the nation’s colleges and universities.

3 weeks ago | middletownpress.com | Alexandra Villarreal |Michael P. Mayko

A Greenwich tailor who has sold expensive clothing to President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager said Tuesday that he knew Paul Manafort only as a Washington lobbyist and had no personal relationship to him. Eugene Venanzi told Hearst Connecticut Media at his Greenwich shop that Manafort was always a gentleman and that their dealings were confined to the tailor’s New York store, with which Venanzi said he is no longer associated.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Alexandra Villarreal

As part of a sweeping crackdown on both undocumented and legal immigrants, Donald Trump signed an executive order on inauguration day that tries to end, for some, the right to US citizenship for children born in the United States. The order was as “blatantly unconstitutional”, in one judge’s opinion, after immediate legal challenges. Appeals failed and four months later the issue has made its way to the increasingly divided US supreme court as an emergency case.