Investigative Journalism
In recent days, we have repeatedly reported on ICE operations, including in Minneapolis. We will not repeat all of the shocking footage here again. Long before you could see the people, the noise ...
What we described yesterday in our article “Christmas in Hell – When ICE Uses the Holidays for Mass Arrests”, has now become reality. Greg Bovino is back in Chicago with his unit ...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s name has come to symbolize an immigration system that no longer understands its own decisions. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has ordered that the Salvadoran national be released from ICE custody immediately ...
When the head of the country's largest deportation machine sits laughing in a Mexican restaurant, wearing a pink sombrero on her head and applauding “Feliz cumpleaños”, it is not a scandal but a snapshot of the political schizophrenia ...
Yuanxin Zheng is six years old, wears glasses, a white shirt - and was torn out of the world he had just begun to build in a single day. When his ...
In recent weeks, something has been happening in the United States that has not existed in this form for decades – and it hits many completely unprepared. People appear for their green card interview to resolve their ...
Karoline Leavitt has been at the center of the political stage for months, but now an event beyond her control has created a direct connection to her own environment. The mother of her eleven-year-old nephew, ...
Delila stood in front of Logan Elementary School and looked, as she did every day, for her father’s face. It was routine, a small daily ritual between the two of them: ...
Washington is experiencing a conflict these weeks that it has not seen in this form before: a president who lets the National Guard patrol the streets of the capital for months ...
There are recordings that are so clear that they make any attempt at relativization unnecessary. The images from Oak Park, Michigan, belong exactly to that. A woman lies handcuffed on the ground, her hands pulled tightly ...
Ernesto Diaz thought in the first seconds that he was being mugged. A masked man grabbed his left shoulder, pushed him against a vehicle, and the pain shot up his arm ...
Veracruz/Monterrey/Waco – It was a Tuesday morning in March when the quiet ritual of a workday began in Waco, Texas. Sergio Garcia heated the beans, ...
Greenbelt, Maryland – It is a case that runs like a crack through the foundation of American justice. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, husband, father, worker – and a symbol of a system ...
It was just past noon when the first sirens wailed through the streets of Little Village. People ran out of shops, doors slammed shut, and a tense silence settled over 26th Street – ...
Chicago - It was just after seven in the morning. Children were laughing as they ran through the glass doors of the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center, a bilingual preschool in the northern part of the city, ...
Portland, Oregon – In a country that has grown accustomed to the constant rhetoric of chaos and unrest, a federal judge has silenced the noise. Karin Immergut, a judge appointed by Donald Trump himself, ...
It was a quiet but remarkable admission. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, has overturned its own decision in the case State of Oregon, City of Portland v. Donald ...
With every new court document, the Department of Homeland Security loses more and more moral footing. Yesterday afternoon brought the next document from a government that seeks to turn wrongdoing into righteousness ...
It is a sentence that echoes through Washington: "That is a lie. And I cannot put my name on such a document." With these words, former government attorney Erez Reuveni said ...
Chicago, East 106th Street. A gray morning, one of thousands like it in this city. Inside Walgreens, it smells of cardboard, disinfectant, and cheap shampoo. People pick up prescriptions, ...
In the echoing corridors of the federal court in Maryland unfolds a drama that exposes the fault lines of American immigration policy with surgical precision. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen ...
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a line against the Trump administration’s drive for executive dominance. In a ruling that reaches far beyond Illinois, he declared the arrest of 26 people by ...
Sometimes the political anatomy of a government reveals itself not in grand speeches or international crises but in the quiet, paper-filled rooms of a courtroom. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
A plane full of people who sought protection has been turned into a tool of political power games. Around one hundred Iranian men and women were put this week into a U.S.-chartered aircraft that flew from Louisiana via Qatar to Tehran.
At the Evo A. DeConcini Courthouse in Tucson, a massive concrete structure on Congress Street, a decision was made on Thursday that determines the fate of almost seventy children ...
On September 25, 2025, an incident occurred in New York that is almost unbearable in its brutality - and yet symptomatic of what Donald ...
A single judge in Washington on Thursday made a decision that can determine the lives and deaths of children - and at the same time cast a glaring light on the methods of ...
An immigration court in Louisiana has sentenced pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil to deportation to Syria or Algeria. The decision by Judge Jamee Comans carries the docket number ...
A federal judge in Washington has once again halted the deportation of dozens of Guatemalan migrant children - and in doing so has restrained a government that had already been forced to revise its own claims. Timothy J. Kelly, ...
Sometimes it is the small stories that reveal the full brutality of a system. Donna Brown-Hughes, 58 years old, has lived in the United States since she was eleven. She has renewed her ...
There are days when the law breaks - not loudly, but with a quiet click, a shadow on paper, a ruling in the archives of the Supreme Court ...
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for new, large-scale immigration raids in Los Angeles – a step that deeply infringes on the civil rights of millions of people ...
San Francisco, a late Friday night or early Saturday morning, and suddenly the clock stands still for more than a million people. Edward Chen, federal judge in the Northern District of California, has put the Trump ...
The Trump administration keeps tightening the screws. On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security submitted a new filing before the immigration court in Baltimore: Should Kilmar Abrego Garcia succeed with his latest attempt to reopen ...
The backdrop could hardly be more symbolic: barbed wire, scorched grass, the flag above, Governor Jeff Landry in front, flanked by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. In the images released by his press office, black Ford Raptors ...
Donald Trump is in the middle of a series of legal defeats that are extraordinary even for his presidency, which is marked by constant fire. Within just a few days, one key pillar after another was pulled out from...
It is a ruling of great significance, even if it applies only for two weeks for now. Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has temporarily stopped the Trump administration ...
Es ist ein Bild, das man eher aus einer Diktatur erwarten würde als aus den Vereinigten Staaten: Während Flammen sich durch die Wälder der Olympic Peninsula fressen, tauchen plötzlich maskierte…
The handcuffs clicked on Monday morning in Baltimore. Once again. For Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 30 years old, father, metalworker, it must have felt like an endless nightmare with no awakening.
The story of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is no longer just an individual case. It has become a symbol of how far the Trump administration is willing to go to enforce its immigration policy ...
The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reads like a dystopian novel, yet it is bitter reality and reveals the shocking erosion of the rule of law at the heart of American democracy. While the Trump ...
It was a cool, sober sentence that shook the political power centers in Tallahassee and Washington: U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida on Thursday ordered the closure ...
There are images that reveal more about a society than any statistic ever could. In the United States, sometimes a glance into an ICE detention center is enough to understand how far reality, delusion, and unreality have already merged.
Sometimes reality writes its own parodies. When Kristi Noem, the cosplay-loving Secretary of Homeland Security, proudly announced her latest prestige project on Tuesday - a migrant detention center in rural Indiana, christened “ICE Baby’s ...
Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the atmosphere in New York City has changed noticeably. Not through sudden mass raids, as many had feared, but through a bureaucracy that has lost its face ...
Louisiana has quietly and secretly become the central hub of the U.S. deportation system under President Donald Trump - and nowhere is this more evident than at Alexandria International Airport. The unassuming airport in Alexandria, ...
Under the title “The Crownless King” (https://kaizen-blog.org/der-koenig-ohne-krone-the-crownless-king/)
It begins with a tweet - not from a troll account, not from an anonymous provocateur, but from the Attorney General of Florida. James Uthmeier, a loyal companion of the Trump camp, writes on X: “We recently got a tip from someone ...
Luis Leon was 82 years old when the American state erased him - not with a bullet, not with a verdict, but with silence. A routine appointment with ICE in Philadelphia, ...
It was one of those files that were never meant for the public. No press release, no tweet, no transparency portal. Just a sober procurement document, circulated internally between agencies and contractors ...
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