<p>The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center<br>---</p><p>ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/lif</span><span class="invisible">e-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
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<p>Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests <br>==<br>We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> took office. </p><p><a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” </p><p>You can judge for yourself. </p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/courts/" rel="tag">#Courts</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a></p><p><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/trump-</span><span class="invisible">ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/</span></a></p>
<p>ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ice</span><span class="invisible">-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/migrants/" rel="tag">#Migrants</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.</p><p>Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.</p><p>“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ins</span><span class="invisible">ide-ice-air-deportation-flights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/aviation/" rel="tag">#Aviation</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/migrants/" rel="tag">#Migrants</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>This Is the Land of Wolves Now</p><p>Masked agents snatching people off the street. Govt ofcls using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.</p><p>“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture <a href="/tags/propaganda/" rel="tag">#propaganda</a> for her regime.</p><p>“We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/alienenemiesact/" rel="tag">#AlienEnemiesAct</a> <a href="/tags/dueprocess/" rel="tag">#DueProcess</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <br><a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-t</span><span class="invisible">he-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true</span></a></p>
<p>From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans<br>—</p><p>The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it's cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#Border</a></p>
<p>Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people? </p><p>Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes. </p><p>Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE. </p><p>That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.</p><p>It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.</p><p>Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/ableism/" rel="tag">#ableism</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a></p>
<p>“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights<br>—</p><p>The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/hom</span><span class="invisible">eland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#Border</a></p>
<p>UPDATE: After this story was prepared for publication, ICE awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for this company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss — its largest contract yet.</p><p>It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>Inside Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Scholar to Trump Target in Louisiana Cell<br>—</p><p>“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rum</span><span class="invisible">eysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/boston/" rel="tag">#Boston</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/phd/" rel="tag">#Phd</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin overrode <a href="/tags/socialsecurity/" rel="tag">#SocialSecurity</a> staff to list immigrants as dead<br>
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/politic</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/</span></a></p>
<p>The Constitution's supremacy clause bars local interference with federal officers when they act reasonably, within the scope of their duties.</p><p>But when agents cross that line, experts said, there's an obligation to try to hold them accountable.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/why</span><span class="invisible">-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/cbp/" rel="tag">#CBP</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/fbi/" rel="tag">#FBI</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a></p>
<p>Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More<br>—</p><p>By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a></p>
<p>Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.</p><p>What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is how her detention was caught on camera.</p><p>What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rum</span><span class="invisible">eysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/university/" rel="tag">#University</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/boston/" rel="tag">#Boston</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a></p>
<p>The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/hom</span><span class="invisible">eland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#Border</a></p>
<p>The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE<br>—</p><p>ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/irs/" rel="tag">#IRS</a> <a href="/tags/tax/" rel="tag">#Tax</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims<br>---</p><p>As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reporters-data-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reporters-data-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pro</span><span class="invisible">publica-reporters-data-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/reporting/" rel="tag">#Reporting</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/truth/" rel="tag">#Truth</a></p>
<p>Two ICE agents dressed in plain clothes showed up at the hospital where he worked & instructed the staff to stage a fake meeting in the basement so they could arrest him. Hospital staff were distraught but felt forced to comply.</p><p>Clearly, this hospital failed to provide training to their staff.</p><p><a href="/tags/mn/" rel="tag">#MN</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/us-news/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia</span></a></p>
<p>Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10 times what was spent during his first term.</p><p>Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-border-security-spending-texas-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-border-security-spending-texas-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-border-security-spending-texas-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#Border</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a></p>
<p>Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record:</p><p>“They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.”</p><p>“Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.”</p><p>A month later, he was gone.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-deportees-trump-immigration-asylum-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-deportees-trump-immigration-asylum-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ven</span><span class="invisible">ezuelan-deportees-trump-immigration-asylum-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/elsalvador/" rel="tag">#ElSalvador</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#Venezuela</a></p>
<p>Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.</p><p>Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. <br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nat</span><span class="invisible">han-albers-fort-bliss-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/detention/" rel="tag">#Detention</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a></p>
<p>“Status: Venezuelan” tells the story of one family in Florida trying to stay together — and stay in the U.S. legally — as they navigate the shifting immigration landscape under the Trump administration’s policies.</p><p>With FRONTLINE, watch at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKSzBwTatm8" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKSzBwTatm8"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKSzBw</span><span class="invisible">Tatm8</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#Documentary</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#Film</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#Venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p>After being released from Salvadoran prison CECOT, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra says he was relieved to be home with his family but felt traumatized.</p><p>“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-immigrant-cecot-release-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-immigrant-cecot-release-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ven</span><span class="invisible">ezuelan-immigrant-cecot-release-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#Venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/elsalvador/" rel="tag">#ElSalvador</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a></p>
<p>Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in <a href="/tags/cecot/" rel="tag">#CECOT</a> <br>==</p><p>We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT in <a href="/tags/elsalvador/" rel="tag">#ElSalvador</a> by the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration.</p><p>Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. </p><p>All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/prison/" rel="tag">#Prison</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ven</span><span class="invisible">ezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump</span></a></p>
<p>“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal<br>—</p><p>For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they experienced.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelans-cecot-el-salvador-trump-families-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/venezuelans-cecot-el-salvador-trump-families-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ven</span><span class="invisible">ezuelans-cecot-el-salvador-trump-families-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/cecot/" rel="tag">#CECOT</a> <a href="/tags/elsalvador/" rel="tag">#ElSalvador</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a></p>