Human Rights Watch Reports: Immigration in the First Months of the Second President Trump Administration

Human Rights Watch released two reports today that tell volumes about the current presidential administration’s approach to immigration enforcement.

“The Trump administration’s first 100 days in office have been a relentless barrage of actions that violate, threaten, or undermine the human rights of people in the United States and abroad,” Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch released a list of 100 harmful actions during these 100 days.

In the second report, Human Rights Watch provides details on how the U.S. government “carried out mass expulsions of third-country nationals to Panama between February 12 and 15, 2025, denying them due process and the right to seek asylum . . . . Both the United States and Panama detained people incommunicado and in harsh conditions.”  The report ‘Nobody Cared, Nobody Listened:’ The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama exposes harsh detention conditions and mistreatment migrants experienced in the United States, along with the denial of due process and the right to seek asylum. It also details migrants’ incommunicado detention in Panama, where authorities kept their phones, blocked visitors, and isolated them from the outside world.

KJ