Thursday, April 24

Welcome back to The Opposition. So far, dozens of U.S. citizens — including a ten-year-old Texas girl recovering from brain cancer — have been wrongly detained or threatened with deportation through President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. As Trump’s mass deportation effort expands, experts warn that more and more Americans will likely be swept up.

Also in this edition: We look at how nonprofits are preparing for what would be a major escalation in Trump’s assault on American civil society. 

Thank you for reading and as always, you can email any feedback you have for me at [email protected].

– Jacob Knutson, reporter

Catch up quickly 

• For now, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security will not recommend that Trump invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy military forces on American soil to further crack down on immigration, CNN reports.
  
  
• A judge blocked the Trump administration from gutting Voice of America, saying the attempt to dismantle the 80-year-old government-funded news service likely violated federal law.
  
  
• Harvard University, represented by several high-profile conservative lawyers, sued Trump for violating the First Amendment and attempting to “coerce and control” the university by withholding over $2 billion in federal research funding.

To do list

• The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed new regulations that would formally revive Schedule F, a key tool in Trump’s effort to gut the federal government and…

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