Donald Trump’s second term has unleashed sweeping abuses of power across immigration, education, healthcare, public health, and the environment. International students and scholars have been detained or deported without cause, universities and law firms punished for dissent, independent agencies undermined, and federal workers threatened. Cuts to healthcare, research, student aid, and small business programs have endangered families and jobs, while environmental protections were rolled back. These moves reveal an authoritarian effort to silence critics and concentrate power, whilst seeking to militarize Sanctuary Cities.

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