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A black-and-white photo shows a Black woman holding a folder speaking to a Black man holding paperwork in front of a desk with piles of forms. A group of Black women and children stand nearby. A sign for the "Immigration & Naturalization Service" is in the background, with the agency's logo.
Closing Argument April 25
Behind Haitians’ Supreme Court Immigration Fight, a Long History Looms
Trump’s move to end Haitians’ protected status is the latest chapter in a long history of the government treating them differently from other immigrants, some argue.
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Yerson and Kelly Vargas and their 6-year-old daughter, Maria Paula, were deported to Colombia in 2025 after being held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.
News March 18
ICE Has Abruptly Deported Thousands of Kids. Their Families Say It Traumatized Them.
Families left behind keepsakes, medicine, pets, cars and homes, sometimes leaving the U.S. with little more than the clothes on their backs.
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A photo shows a woman with medium skin tone and black hair with her head turned toward an open red door. She holds an infant in one arm.
News March 2
The Harrowing Journey Home for Families Leaving Immigration Detention
Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.
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A photo shows the interior of an ICE Processing Center, where two floors are visible. There are four metal doors, each with four narrow vertical windows, on each floor. Two officers dressed in light blue shirts and dark pants stand at one of the doors on the first floor.
News January 6
Trump’s Vow to Arrest Immigrants Lifted Private Prison Stocks. Then Why Did They Tank?
ICE wants to detain more than 100,000 people at a time, but the historic ramp up has been slower than Wall Street expected.
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A combination of four photos shows, clockwise from left, a man facing away from the camera, with medium-toned skin and short dark hair, wearing a black tank top, and with tattoos on his right arm; a woman with medium-toned skin and long dark hair, wearing a peach-colored top, sitting at a table while writing on a card; a woman facing away from the camera with medium-length brown hair and sunglasses on her head; a white house with green trimming and shutters; and a person's hand over a griddle folding a tortilla.
Feature December 5, 2025
In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.
By and Julieta Martinelli
A man in a purple shirt has his hands cuffed behind his back while facing an open car door. Four federal officers, wearing camouflage uniforms, vests, and helmets, stand around the man.
Closing Argument November 15, 2025
ICE Raids Kept On During the Shutdown, But the Detention Data Stayed Hidden
More than seven weeks have passed since the last comprehensive release of detention and deportation numbers.
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A photo shows a man with a medium skin tone and a olive green t-shirt holding his phone up toward a group law enforcement agents, who are standing in uniform on the other side of yellow police tape.
Closing Argument October 25, 2025
Behind ICE Blitz, Trump Dismantles Discretion in Immigration Enforcement
ICE’s crackdown in Chicago reflects a deeper reshaping of the immigration system toward a singular focus: removing people with little or no review.
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A woman, wearing a black and white plaid jacket, kneels in between a row of blue chairs. Three signs of Bible verses translated into Spanish hang on the wall.
Closing Argument September 27, 2025
In ICE Detention, Rising Deaths and Neglect: ‘They Wouldn’t Really Do Anything’
Recent incidents include a man who died awaiting surgery in Georgia and a woman’s miscarriage in California. Meanwhile, suicide attempts are rising.
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A side profile of a woman sitting on a bed, in a dark room with a black-blue slate background. She is singing, as tears flow down her left cheek and as the flow descends down her left shoulder, it begins to widen into a wider flow. In the flow are pictured memories of her hugging her children.
Feature September 16, 2025
‘Unbearable’: How ICE Is Locking More Immigrants in Solitary Under Trump
A mother of three said she hallucinated after weeks in an ICE segregation cell in Louisiana. She’s one of thousands now facing the psychological toll of isolation.
By , The Marshall Project, and Patricia Clarembaux, Univision Noticias
A person wearing a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) cap has fabric wrapped around their face and is seen through the window of an open vehicle door at a checkpoint. To their left stands someone wearing a head covering, and to their right stands another person wearing a head covering. Someone else stands behind the person with the HSI cap.
Analysis September 12, 2025
A New Front in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown: ICE Checkpoints Far From the Border
Checkpoints have long run near the southern border, but their recent use in other parts of the country has ignited strong responses.
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