Federal immigration enforcement in Vermont is not new. What is, legal experts say, is what they describe as an intensifying rhetoric and “fear-mongering” at the federal level. Groups in Vermont are trying to combat fear with crowd-sourcing more information.
Daniel Barlow, executive director of the People’s Health & Wellness Clinic in Barre, which treats patients 18 and older, called the order “a dangerous escalation in the ongoing political attacks on transgender and nonbinary people, and we fear it will deny lifesaving care to Vermonters of all ages.”
Attorney General Charity Clark announced Tuesday afternoon that Vermont has joined a separate multi-state suit against the Trump administration. She called the freeze a “brazen violation of the Constitution.
As much of the nation watched Trump take office for the second time in history, a border agent in Vermont was reportedly shot dead by a migrant.
President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to pardon defendants charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Activists in Burlington and in more than 70 other cities nationwide protested President Trump's inauguration over policies on marginalized communities.
The lawsuit argues that the 14th Amendment applies to all children born in the country and cannot be dismissed by the stroke of a president’s pen.
Those in favor of Trump said they believe he's going to reunite the country and make it safer, more affordable, and a better place to live, while others protested his inauguration.
The coalition filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts that seeks to stop what they call an unlawful action by the president.
An advocate for transgender people said it feels like President Trump's recent executive orders are targeting trans Americans "for erasure."