A public defender’s lonely fight against family separation.
Immigration & Labor
The Matter Of Castro Tum
How Jeff Sessions made it harder for judges to let immigrants stay in the US.
Immigrants Say They Were Pressured Into Unneeded Surgeries
Immigrants detained at an ICE-contracted center in Georgia said they had invasive gynecology procedures that they later learned might have been unnecessary.
The Immokalee Way: Protecting Farmworkers Amid a Pandemic
While some companies do everything to escape accountability, the Fair Food Program proves there’s an alternative.
Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Is Sabotaging Its Own Mission
The federal agency that’s supposed to protect union rights is instead championing the interests of bosses.
Cold as ICE
How local sheriffs are driving Trump’s deportation agenda.
Exporting the Virus
How Trump’s Deportation Flights Are Putting Latin America and the Caribbean at Risk.
Fear, Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside
Detained men and women held at a facility in Georgia are trying desperately to raise the alarm.
At The Mercy Of The Courts
We spent a year investigating the impact of Trump’s policies on New York’s immigration courts.
They Were Warned Not to Take Sick Days — Then Six Workers at Their Warehouse Died of Coronavirus
The workers also expressed concerns that delays in the provision of personal protective equipment like masks and gloves made an outbreak inevitable.
The Factory Oversight Industry Protects Profits, Not People
An investigation into the dangerously irresponsible business of “ethical factory” audits.
Immigrant Detainees Stage Protest For More COVID-19 Protections: ‘WE ARE NOT SAFE’
People being held at a center in Georgia want vulnerable individuals released and better safeguards against infection.
‘I Can’t Do Anything’: Doctor Detained By ICE Waits For Coronavirus Outbreak To Hit
Neysi Salvador-Aguiar, a physician from Cuba, says that the Irwin County detention center wasn’t taking enough measures to prevent the spread of the virus.
As Coronavirus Spread, Financial Services Contractor Told Warehouse Workers They Aren’t Allowed to Get Sick
In a Long Island warehouse, immigrants work long hours doing mailings for a multibillion-dollar financial services company. Now they’re getting sick.
The Coronavirus Has Spread to the US Marshals’ Detention Empire
Exclusive reporting reveals five people in federal detention have tested positive for COVID-19.
No End in Sight
What happens when immigrant-rights advocates reach a breaking point?
Fragility in Liberty
We travel from Liberty Island to the U.S.-Mexico border to discover how the end of Reconstruction and America’s present-day immigration crisis are inextricably bound.
Marshals’ Lawlessness
The Marshals Service has failed to make sure its detainees are held in safe conditions—even after hundreds of people have died on its watch.
Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire
They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.
Erasing the Dead
Seeking to Deport Haitians, the Trump Administration Is Counting Deaths in Displacement Camps as “Progress.”