InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Politics Death Along the Border Insufficient training and little public oversight have led to problems, including violence against migrants. John Carlos FreyLos Angeles TimesApril 20, 2012
InvestigationBusiness, Immigration, Justice, Politics Gambling on Immigration Detention One Georgia county bet its financial future on becoming a regional center for immigrant detention. But harsh immigration politics scared off the very workers farmers depend on for the harvest. Hannah Rappleye & Lisa Riordan SevilleThe NationApril 11, 2012
AnalysisImmigration, Justice The Chief of Police Doth Protest Too Much The chief of police in Escondido, CA, insisted I interview him. Chief Jim Maher had “an immigrant-friendly agenda,” he said, and was a friend to Latinos. He had done nothing wrong, and the media and activists were just spreading lies… John Carlos FreyMarch 12, 2012
InvestigationImmigration, Justice Escondido Police Under Fire The Escondido Police Department is using DUI checkpoints as thinly veiled immigration dragnets. John Carlos FreyKPBSMarch 12, 2012
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics Alabama’s Failed Experiment What happens when outside agitators work with state politicians to pass the nation’s most draconian anti-immigrant law yet? The Cotton State learned the hard way. Paul ReyesMother JonesMarch 1, 2012
AnalysisImmigration, Justice Custody Battles The fate of kids whose undocumented parents are swept into an immigration dragnet has largely escaped the attention of mainstream media, but a recent ABC News investigation tackles the issue… Aaron NelsenFebruary 10, 2012
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, World US Asylum Seekers in Liberian Prisons A US policy of criminalizing undocumented immigrants has led deportees to be jailed and ostracized once they’re returned. Deepa Fernandes & Abdulai BahThe NationFebruary 2, 2012
InvestigationImmigration, Labor, Politics NAFTA’s Human Costs NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was hailed as a boon to economies on both sides of the border. A look at the policy’s human costs. David BaconThe Investigative FundJanuary 10, 2012
InvestigationImmigration, Labor, Politics How US Policies Fueled Mexico’s Migration Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now they’re condemned as “illegals.” David BaconThe NationJanuary 4, 2012
InvestigationImmigration, World Torn Apart Nebraska child welfare officials took Maria Luis’s kids, then US immigration officers sent her back to Guatemala. How deportation is tearing apart families. Aaron NelsenIn These TimesDecember 20, 2011