In addition to recklesslydetainingU.S.
He has deported migrants, apparently without due process, to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.
These disruptive actions run contrary to decades of settled law, and have provoked hundreds of lawsuits.
Donald Trump speaks to the press about the conflict in Ukraine before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on March 14, 2025, in Maryland.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
Family members of several other men shipped off to El Salvador similarly deny their involvement in any gang.
A judge alarmed by the lack of due process for the detainees ordered the planes turned aroundwhile en route.
Status: As judicial wrangling continues, those exiled remain imprisoned in El Salvadors Terrorism Confinement Center.
Status: The names and whereabouts of these individuals remain unknown.
Shipping Asylum-Seekers to the Jungles of Panama
The administration sent some 300 deportees to Panama inmid February.
More than 100 were subsequentlyshipped to a jungle jailnear the notorious Darien Gap.
(In truth,manyappear to have been asylum seekers or economic migrants seeking better lives.)
In a statement, Khalil has called himself a political prisoner.
Status: Khalils case is before a judge in Louisiana.
The statute cited for his removal is largely untested, constitutionally.
Status: The EO has been blocked by at least three judges, resulting in a nationwide injunction.
Status: Trans Americans have filed an array of lawsuits decrying discriminatory treatment by the federal government.
Some medical institutions not bound by Trumps executive order have nonetheless complied by ceasing gender care for minor patients.
DEFUNDING HIGHER EDUCATIONThe Trump administration has begun a campaign to attack the funding of higher education.
The administration has, in fact,eliminated requirementsthat federal contractors have integrated workplace facilities.
Trump has also ousted the top female and Black leaders in the Armed Forces.
Beyond that, federal agencies are purging mentions of minorities from their official websites.
Status: Public pressure has been somewhat effective in shaming the administration to be less racist and sexist.
The Pentagon restored training materials honoring the Tuskegee Airmen, and female aviators known as WASPs, for example.
And the administration has also cancelled subscriptions across agencies to publications likePoliticoand Reuters.
(The bandmade clearthey did not authorize or condone the use of their music.)
Perhaps most disturbing, Trump posted an elaborate video montage of deportees being received by authorities in El Salvador.
Status: AP hassued to regain access, but a judge has so far declined to intervene.
