Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.

On the public-health risks of the American prison system.

On incarcerated mothers and their decimated families.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?

The perilous existence of confidential informants.

When juveniles are found guilty of sexual misconduct, the sex-offender registry can be a life sentence.

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.

On the private, for-profit probation industry.

The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.

The expansion of private-security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known. But armed security personnel account for only about sixteen per cent of the over-all contracting force. The vast majority—more than sixty per cent of the total in Iraq—aren’t hired guns but hired hands. These workers, primarily from South Asia and Africa, often live in barbed-wire compounds on U.S. bases, eat at meagre chow halls, and host dance parties featuring Nepalese romance ballads and Ugandan church songs. A large number are employed by fly-by-night subcontractors who are financed by the American taxpayer but who often operate outside the law.