Investigative Journalism
What began as a routine court date ended for Carlos Javier Lopez Benitez in a violent assault – and his arrest. Masked federal agents dragged ...
It was a weekend of dismissals - quiet, abrupt, consequential. Within just a few days, seventeen immigration court judges in the United States were removed from their positions without explanation. This measure does not target just anyone ...
It was the day after the assault. In front of “Glass House Farms” in Camarillo, north of Los Angeles, dozens of workers waited for an answer that had already been given ...
It was just before noon when the doors of the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center near Los Angeles opened not only for patients, but for a drama ...
It was intended as a flagship project of the new deportation policy - now it stands as a symbol of state failure and unrestrained cruelty. The “Alligator Alcatraz” ...
It was yet another setback for Ron DeSantis - and for the immigration regime Donald Trump has been trying to enforce across the states for months. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Florida ...
While the newly built internment camp "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades is currently becoming the symbol of an unrestrained deportation policy, another place is silently fading into oblivion: the Krome deportation center in Miami.
The truth did not come from Washington, but from the Salvadoran government. Investigations clearly confirm it – and it contradicts everything the Trump regime has publicly claimed so far. In an official ...
Deep in the shimmering swamp of the Everglades, where mosquitoes fly thicker than morning fog and alligators lurk between reeds, a place has officially begun operations that some already describe as a symbol of a new America ...
It was a sentence fit for a dystopian novel - only it didn’t fall in fiction but during a press tour through a real internment camp in the state of Florida. Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary under Donald Trump, ...
Nashville, Tennessee - A man remains in prison. Not because he is guilty. Not because he wants to flee. But because the justice system ...
Washington / Nashville - This is a case that long ago transcended legal questions - it has become a symbol for how a government deals with law, truth, and human life. Construction worker Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
New Orleans, Portland, Basile - they are quiet places, far removed from the centers of power in Washington. And yet these days, they lie at the heart of a policy that strikes with full force.
It was just after four in the morning when the blast shook the street. An explosion, an armored vehicle, armed agents, a drone – and in the middle of it all: a mother with her two small children, ...
Nashville, June 27, 2025 – It is a legal paradox that seems almost incomprehensible: the attorneys of a man who was wrongfully deported from the United States ...
Nashville, Tennessee - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose unlawful deportation has become a symbol of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy, pleaded not guilty on Friday in a federal court in Tennessee...
Nashville, Tennessee – In a country that prides itself on being a beacon of freedom and the rule of law, a man sits in handcuffs – not because of guilt, but because of a dilemma the government created itself. Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
Washington – It was a day when power triumphed over the law. On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a six-to-three vote that the Trump administration may once again deport migrants to so-called ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - When Noah, nearly two years old, asks for his mother at bedtime, his father Adrian Clouatre simply says, “Mama will be back soon.” For his three-month-old daughter Lyn, who was still being breastfed, ...
Nashville, Tennessee – June 23, 2025 - A case that has long become symbolic of President Donald Trump’s controversial deportation policy took a new turn over the weekend: U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes ...
McAllen, Texas – Children being shoved aside by adults to reach drinking water. A toddler with diarrhea who was given only tap water for days. A boy with swollen feet denied a medical ...
New York – In a high-profile ruling, a U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention. The former Columbia student had been arrested in March 2025 under the pretext ...
We know Job Garcia. As a photographer. As a quiet chronicler of everyday life, as a thoughtful mind, as a friend. He was never someone who sought the spotlight. But when he ...
San Diego, June 19, 2025 - These are images you don’t forget: Two masked officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency escort a man in handcuffs out of a federal courthouse in San Diego. His name is Sayed Naser...
It is a message that feels like it’s from another era - from the time of colonial powers or Cold War threats. Over the weekend, the U.S. State Department, on behalf of President Donald ...
It was a double blow that shook the political landscape of the United States over the weekend: While President Donald Trump on Sunday evening directed the immigration agency ICE to carry ...
At the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, it wasn’t just the fluorescent lights flickering on Friday - it was the gleam of a deeply fractured nation reflected in the eyes of one man: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 years old, ...
It begins with a missed meal - and ends in an uprising whose full extent even the authorities do not yet fully grasp. Four detainees have escaped from the federal immigration detention center Delaney Hall in the state of New Jersey...
The decision came late in the evening, but its impact was immediate: On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, under Secretary Kristi Noem, announced that hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, ...
Key West, Florida – It was a sunny morning in the Sunshine State when Vincent Scardina, a self-declared Trump supporter and owner of a small roofing company, suddenly realized what it means when election decisions have real ...
It begins with a courtroom – sober, functional, often overcrowded – and ends with handcuffs in the hallway. Since May 2025, a silent escalation has been unfolding in the United States that few notice unless they’re directly ...
The Shadow of Retreat – How the US Tries to Save Face in the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It begins with a return flight. Not voluntary, not hopeful – but as the result of an institutional breakdown that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
It was a Saturday that could hardly have started more uneventfully. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18 years old, a student at Milford High School in Massachusetts, got into his father’s car to head to volleyball practice, just like so many times ...
It begins with a number - and could end in a political turning point. 3,000 arrests per day. That was the order Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's powerful deputy chief of staff and mastermind of immigration policy, gave to senior ICE officials ...
It was a day that will go down in history – not for an upheaval, not for a sudden turn of events, but for two judgments that positioned the promise of the Constitution against the cynicism of power. On June 4, 2025, the U.S. judiciary ...
It is a ruling that could easily be overlooked amid the flood of political decisions – and yet it marks a moment of relief for thousands of people, a legal pause in the face of the radical upheaval triggered by the Trump administration’s ...
It was a Friday evening when smoke drifted through the streets of San Diego, when screams tore through the air and heavily armed men in tactical gear stormed into an Italian restaurant – just before dinner, just before the breaking of bread...
t is a move that echoes dark times: On May 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led by Kristi Noem, released a list of 500 cities, counties, and states ...
It is a sentence that cuts deep: “Tranquila, ma. Aquí estoy yo” - “Calm down, Mom. I’m here.” Spoken by a small boy who has to watch as his mother is arrested by ICE agents in San ...
An article about fear as a weapon, a fabricated letter, and the propaganda of power It begins with a letter. Light blue ink, an angry message threatening to shoot Donald Trump ...
It begins with a court ruling, soberly worded, directed at a public long accustomed to the unimaginable. And yet, May 30, 2025, will go down in history – as the day the Supreme Court ...
An article about the four-year-old girl Trump wants to throw out of the United States. There are stories that make even seasoned observers stop in their tracks. Cases so cruel in their banality that you feel like you're watching the wrong movie...
It begins with a personnel decision, but it stands for far more than mere administrative reshuffling. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), the core of Donald Trump’s massive deportation policy, is undergoing a profound restructuring – and ...
San Diego, May 2025. A concrete block in the desert. The air smells of bleach and fear. Inside sits a woman in a booth so small that pain seems to pool in it. She speaks into ...
Madness has found structure. And it wears a uniform. In San Diego, a man was arrested in the hallway of a courthouse – directly in front of the office of a judge who had explicitly ...
The Silent Nightmare of One Man and the New Face of Trump’s Deportation Policy. It happened again. Without warning. Without protocol. And, as a judge noted, without even the semblance of law. Late Friday night, Federal Judge ...
ICE agents tackled a worker in Alabama and detained him for hours - despite the fact that he is a U.S. citizen. He begged and shouted, “I am a U.S. citizen,”...
This is the kind of scenario one might expect in an authoritarian regime – not in a country that calls itself the cradle of democracy: Migrants show up voluntarily for their court hearings, and outside the courthouse, ....
It sounds like something out of a Kafkaesque play – and yet it's the reality along the southern border of the United States: The same Trump administration that publicly shames humanitarian helpers and accuses them of aiding smuggling ...
It’s just two words. Two words, typed on a social platform once known as Twitter, which now resembles more a marketplace of contempt than a forum for political debate...
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