Investigative Journalism
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...
The End of Freedom Begins with a Misunderstanding – Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and the Abuse of Habeas Corpus. It is one of those sentences that make you choke on your laughter: "Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right that allows ...
It was one of the most dramatic turns in the bitter battle over Trump’s deportation policy: On Tuesday evening, a U.S. federal judge ordered that the United States must retain full control over deported migrants who had apparently already been flown ,,,
What began with an arrest outside a home has become a symbol of the harshness and inhumanity of immigration policy. Yolanda Magallón Pérez, a 50-year-old undocumented mother, was detained by ICE agents. The officers initially ...
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