The Trump administration opened 2018 with a renewed attack on immigrants. The arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir and the targeting of No More Deaths volunteers in Arizona were early salvos in a campaign of harassment and intimidation that reached its apex with the family separation crisis.
Illustration: Nicole Rifkin
Immigrants sexually abused in ICE detention have been saying #MeToo for years. They faced retaliation and a system unwilling to hold itself accountable.
By Alice Speri
By Alice Speri
Photo: Saul Young/News Sentinel
In a massive immigration raid, ICE rounded up Latino workers without asking them questions or telling them why they were being detained.
By Ryan Devereaux, Alice Speri
By Ryan Devereaux, Alice Speri
Photo: Federal Courthouse, Pecos, Tex.
All along the border, immigrants coming into the U.S. — even those applying for asylum at ports of entry — have had their children removed from them.
By Debbie Nathan
By Debbie Nathan
Still: Debbie Nathan
The practice of turning away asylum-seekers at the border has suddenly become routine, in defiance of U.S. and international law.
By Debbie Nathan
By Debbie Nathan
Still: Verónica G. Cárdenas
“I cried some, but I tried to be strong,” the little boy said when he was reunited with his mother after 38 days of separation.
By Debbie Nathan
By Debbie Nathan
Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Tear gas is a tool of repression — but it also produces the kind of image that feeds Trump’s made-up notion of a border crisis.
By Natasha Lennard
By Natasha Lennard
Photo: Joel Angel Juárez
ICE told Carlos Rueda Cruz to focus on “illegal aliens” with criminal histories. He would need to produce one name per month or be sent back to Mexico.
By Ryan Katz
By Ryan Katz
Map: Immigrant Defense Project
The ICEWatch project is the culmination of years of work tracking ICE operations by the Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
By Ryan Devereaux
By Ryan Devereaux
Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
ICE is entering and surveilling churches, immigrant rights activists said, after two New Sanctuary leaders were targeted by authorities for deportation.
By Nick Pinto
By Nick Pinto
Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
An Amnesty International report describes an orchestrated campaign by the Trump administration to seek “the full dismantling of the U.S. asylum system.”
By Ryan Devereaux, Alice Speri, Cora Currier
By Ryan Devereaux, Alice Speri, Cora Currier
Photo: Michelle Siu
How a man accused of no crime found himself in indefinite detention on U.S. soil — and the remarkable lengths his family went to in order to get him back.
By Ryan Devereaux
By Ryan Devereaux
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The group No More Deaths says the charges are part of a ramped-up effort to crack down not only on migrants, but on the groups that help them.
By Ryan Devereaux
By Ryan Devereaux
Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
Half the group is being detained at Glades County Detention Center, where they have complained of a litany of abuses, including violent assaults by guards.
By Maryam Saleh
By Maryam Saleh
Photo: Verónica G. Cárdenas
Border communities still remember when a U.S. Marine assigned to a drug interdiction task force mistakenly shot and killed an 18-year-old boy.
By Melissa del Bosque
By Melissa del Bosque
Photo: Courtesy of Kurt Cappelli
Mauricio Cappelli, with his thick Wisconsin accent, was deported to his birth country after learning as an adult that he did not have citizenship.
By Daniel Medina
By Daniel Medina
Photo: Reade Levinson/Reuters
Efraín Romero de la Rosa’s suicide was the second in 15 months by a detainee with a history of mental illness at a privately run ICE detention center.
By Jose Olivares
By Jose Olivares
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