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New York police officers are lined up inside an auditorium.
News March 30, 2022
Biden Struck Out on Police Reform. Is Trump’s Remaining Policy Enough?
With Biden halting a proposed policing order, Trump’s modest changes are the most significant federal policing moves since George Floyd’s murder.
By Jamiles Lartey
Analysis October 30, 2020
500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention
U.S. Customs and Border Protection carried out almost half a million child detentions during the Trump administration, data shows. More kids were held for 72 hours or more.
By Anna Flagg and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón
Small-business owners with criminal records are prohibited from accessing loans from the $2 trillion rescue package signed by President Trump
Coronavirus April 8, 2020
Trump Administration Tells Some Business Owners “Do Not Apply” for Coronavirus Loans
SBA says people with criminal records aren't eligible for some emergency loans, even though experts say the law doesn't exclude them.
By Eli Hager
People line up in Tijuana, Mexico, to begin the process of applying for asylum in the United States.
Analysis November 7, 2018
The Immigration Crisis Jeff Sessions Leaves Behind
Assessing the ousted attorney general's legacy on President Trump's favorite issue.
By Julia Preston
Luis Bracamontes smirked as a jury in Sacramento, California, found him guilty of killing two sheriff’s officers in 2014.
Analysis November 2, 2018
Five Lies In Trump’s Favorite Campaign Ad
Several reasons why the Luis Bracamontes video is grossly misleading or just plain false.
By Julia Preston
Young men sit in their cells at the Juvenile Detention Center in El Paso, Texas.
News September 19, 2018
This Agency Tried to Fix the Race Gap in Juvenile Justice. Then Came Trump
A new presidential appointee has quietly changed decades-old federal policies meant to improve racial disparities in youth incarceration.
By Eli Hager
Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud, leaving federal court in New York.
Analysis August 23, 2018
A Reader’s Guide to Our Constitutional Crisis
What you need to know about the week’s momentous legal and political news in Trumpland.
By Andrew Cohen
An unaccompanied boy from Guatemala is processed at the Customs and Border Protection Rio Grande Valley sector headquarters in Texas, in 2013.
News May 1, 2018
Trump’s Quiet War on Migrant Kids
How the administration is turning child protection into law enforcement
By Eli Hager
Analysis March 30, 2018
The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant
The link between immigration and crime exists in the imaginations of Americans, and nowhere else.
By Anna Flagg
A recreation cage in the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay.
Feature February 28, 2018
Guantánamo, Forever
After nearly a decade in detention, Haroon Gul believed he had a chance at freedom. Then came President Trump.
By Amos Barshad
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