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Deportation

Best Article

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 40min Permalink

The Death and Life of Frankie Madrid

The U.S. had been his home since he was 6 months old. When he was deported 
to Mexico 26 years later, it was more than he could bear.

Valeria Fernández California Sunday Aug 2019 20min Permalink

Music

King of the Norf

The Inglewood rapper has survived the death, deportation, and displacement of his family and friends.

Jeff Weiss the LAnd magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

The Deported Americans

More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Jan 2019 15min Permalink

Best Article Politics

He Drew His School Mascot—and ICE Labeled Him a Gang Member

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

Hannah Dreier ProPublica Dec 2018 45min Permalink

World

It Was Like There Was a Fog in the Sky Only I Could See

Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.

Ashoka Mukpo Popula Aug 2018 35min Permalink

Best Article

"Are You Alone Now?"

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Permalink

Crime World

When Deportation Is a Death Sentence

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?

Sarah Stillman New Yorker Jan 2018 40min Permalink

Politics

‘Will They Take Me, Too?’

What happens to American children when their parents are deported?

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Dec 2017 20min Permalink

World

Losing Gloria

After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.

Lizzie Presser California Sunday Jun 2017 30min Permalink

History World

Kalmykia’s Long Goodbye

The mass deportation of the Siberian Kalmyk people by Stalin still reverberates.

Badma Biurchiev Open Democracy Dec 2016 15min Permalink

World

The Deported

Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.

Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Dec 2015 25min Permalink