Here’s an explainer WOLA posted on Friday, sounding alarms about the likely impact of these changes from the second Trump administration’s first few days. This is all before the feud with Colombia and the effort to halt a huge amount of federal spending.

It covers the following changes that will, if implemented, gravely harm Latin America:

  • Ending asylum and other legal pathways
  • The “invasion” justification and dangerous domestic use of the U.S. military
  • Mass deportation
  • Placing criminal groups on the “terrorist list”
  • Ending all federal diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs and mandating the recognition of only two sexes
  • Pausing U.S. Foreign Assistance
  • Exiting the Paris Climate Change Agreement

Read the whole thing here.