The Trump administration continues to cause disruption and upheaval in the US’ migrant and refugee sector.

Immigrants are losing access to food aid support in more US states, as government restrictions take effect.

Recent changes to federal food aid mean some immigrants have been cut off from grocery assistance payments.

Refugees, asylum seekers and human trafficking survivors without a green card are among the non-citizen groups who are no longer eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

The restrictions technically went into effect last year when Congress and President Trump approved the laws in July. But states have been implementing the changes on different timelines over the past handful of months.

Meanwhile, a refugee detained by ICE missed vital chemo sessions and is now on his deathbed, his family says.

Reports says Oudone Lothirath was just a child when he arrived in the United States as a Laotian refugee in the early 1980s, in search of a better life.

But 45 years later, while he was supposed to be undergoing life-extending chemotherapy for his terminal Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Lothirath found himself languishing in a federal immigration detention facility.

His loved ones now say that missing crucial chemotherapy sessions in January cut the 57-year-old’s life expectancy, and he is now on his deathbed, receiving hospice care.

Other reports have described as “stunning” a courtroom admission by a Justice Department lawyer that the Trump administration has identified 91 cases where asylum seekers were deported despite a court-ordered class action settlement barring them from being removed before their asylum applications were adjudicated.

The dramatic increase in the number of known wrongful deportations in the case from about a dozen to nearly 100 was an astonishing development in a case where the government has insisted that the number of such deportations was relatively small.

“Obviously this is extremely troubling,” US District Court Judge Stephanie Gallagher said in response to the admission.

Afghans in the United States, including many who fought alongside US forces, are facing heightened fears of deportation following policy changes under the Trump administration.

The administration has terminated temporary deportation protections and implemented immigration crackdowns that have left thousands in legal limbo and at risk of being returned to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

This has meant the pausing of pending asylum cases, the halting visa issuances to Afghans, reviewing green cards held by immigrants from the Middle East and Africa and reopening the cases of approvals granted under the Biden administration to further scrutinize them.

The changes have effectively frozen immigration pathways for thousands of Afghans already living in the US.

Reporting from the Bangor Daily news, in Maine, says only 11 of the nearly 200 people detained in the state during a massive immigration crackdown were found to have a criminal record.

Federal data obtained by the paper refutes the Trump administration’s claim that agents targeted the “worst of the worst” criminals during a five-day sweep.

In a blow to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, a US federal judge has ordered the government to restore legal status for tens of thousands of immigrants who used a Homeland Security app to enter the United States legally under the Biden administration.

Roughly 985,000 people used the app to seek legal entry before the Trump administration abruptly ended the program after taking office.

The app, which launched in 2023, allowed noncitizens seeking asylum or a pathway to permanent residency to schedule appointments at ports of entry before arriving at the US border, where they then could obtain humanitarian parole, a temporary legal status that allows recipients to legally live in the country while their cases played out.