‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore’: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in America
By Melissa Sánchez and Mariam Elba, ProPublica Posted October 16, 2025 She desperately wanted to get out of the country. It was mid-May and Pérez, a…
US Citizens Are Carrying Passports and Avoiding Spanish in Public
By Grace Berry and Isabella Gomez/Cronkite News For five years, Ricardo Reyes served the country of his birth as a Marine, pledging to sacrifice his life if…
The H-2A Visa Trap
By Max Blau, ProPublica, and Zaydee Sanchez, for ProPublica Posted October 2, 2025 In the darkness before dawn, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. took the last drag of a…
DACA Recipients Navigate Unknown Amid President’s Immigration Actions
By Mia Hilkowitz and Tristan E. M. Leach/News21 Posted September 25, 2025 On Christmas her junior year of high school, A.L.E. sat around the tree, ready to…
‘Political Violence Is Political Cowardice,’ Says Bernie Sanders
By Jon Queally, Common Dreams Posted September 18, 2025 In an online video address posted one day after the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, Sen. Bernie Sanders…
Supreme Court Allows Immigration Agents to Resume ‘Roving Patrols’ In LA
By Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos, CalMatters The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 8, granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to lift a temporary restraining order barring federal…
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
By Adriana Loureiro Fernández, ProPublica Posted September 4, 2025 Editor’s Note: Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been…
Abrego García Detained by ICE; Judge Orders Delay of Deportation to Uganda
By Ariana Figueroa, States Newsroom and William J. Ford, Maryland Matters Posted on August 28, 2025 Editor’s Note: In an update on Wednesday, Aug. 27, States Newsroom reported…
GOP President Wants States to Feed Voter Info Into Powerful Citizenship Data Program
By Jonathan Shorman, Stateline Posted on August 21 The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote. But…
The Terror of Being Deported to El Salvador: ‘God, Why Am I Here? Why?’
By Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, Melissa Sanchez and Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, Ronna Rísquez, Alianza Rebelde Investiga, and Adrián González, Cazadores de Fake News, photography and additional…