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World Health

To Stay or To Go?

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink

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

Business Politics

Two Towns Forged an Unlikely Bond. Now, ICE Is Severing the Connection

For years, rural Guatemalans traveled thousands of miles for jobs in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. A series of immigration raids is creating havoc in a town desperate for workers.

Monte Reel Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2018 30min 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

Politics

How Trump Radicalized ICE

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

Franklin Foer The Atlantic Aug 2018 25min Permalink

In the Pit With the Fighting Roosters

A massive raid on a long-running cockfighting ring in Arkansas has raised complex questions about ICE, immigration, and the future of a centuries-old tradition.

David Hill The Ringer Jul 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

A Betrayal

The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.

Hannah Dreier ProPublica Apr 2018 30min Permalink

Science

The Doomsday Glacier

”In West Antarctica, scientists have discovered the engine of catastrophe.”

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone May 2017 20min Permalink