Episode 8: 'I Want Someone to Love Me Even for a Second'
Girls make up only a small fraction of the incarcerated juvenile population, but girls often land in detention because they have experienced some form of trauma: abusive families, bad experiences in...
View ArticleEpisode 9: 'You Just Sit There and Wait for the Next Day to Come'
Rikers Island has ended the traditional use of solitary confinement for juveniles. New York State banned it more broadly, but only for juveniles that have already been sentenced. In many counties,...
View ArticleJudge Rules Detained Haitian Immigrant Must Get Bond Hearing
A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered the government to allow a bond hearing for a Haitian immigrant who's been detained for the past eight months, while fighting deportation. Augustin Sajous is a...
View ArticleRipped Apart: Families Separated at the Border
President Donald Trump said he was ending family separation at the border this week. But we’ve stayed on the story, investigating the issues that remain: children being drugged at migrant shelters,...
View ArticleCivil Liberties Groups Sue Trump Administration for Detaining Green Card...
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of New Jersey are suing the government for detaining an undocumented father of two during what was supposed to be a routine appointment at Immigration...
View ArticleThree Immigrant Siblings Separated from their Mother Take a Step Toward...
A ruling by a California judge means migrant children separated from their parents while illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border must be reunited within 30 days. For three siblings WNYC has been...
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Migrant Mom Poised to Reunite with Children Shares Detention Story
Yeni Gonzalez-Garcia has spent a month and a half apart from her three young children, separated by the "zero tolerance" policy for people who illegally crossed the U.S. border. On Tuesday, the family...
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Immigrant Mom Gets to Visit Her Kids, but Custody Is Another Hurdle
A Guatemalan mother was able to see her three children again Tuesday after being apart for a month and a half. Yeni Gonzalez-Garcia was separated from her kids in May by the U.S. government under the...
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In Surprise Vote, Hudson County Renews Contract With ICE to Detain Immigrants
Officials in Hudson County, N.J., voted Thursday to renew a controversial contract to detain immigrants at the county jail in exchange for about $35 million a year from Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleNadler Calls for Jailing Trump Officials if They Don’t Reunite Migrant Families
The Trump administration is just days away from the July 26 deadline to reunite all migrant children separated from their parents at the border. But, following a briefing with federal officials last...
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Do Immigrants Get a Fair Day in Court When It's by Video?
On a muggy August morning, Angel Luis Bonilla and some friends were kibbitzing in a waiting room at 201 Varick Street. The federal office building in Lower Manhattan is where immigrants in detention...
View ArticleDHS Uses FEMA Money to Pay for ICE's Migrant Crackdown
With hurricane Florence approaching the eastern seaboard, new documents reveal that the Department of Homeland Security in June transferred $10 million dollars from FEMA's budget to help pay for the...
View ArticleAs Hurricane Florence Approaches, What About the People Forced to Stay?
As Hurricane Florence Approaches, What About the People Forced to Stay? As millions leave their homes to avoid Hurricane Florence, many more will be forced to shelter in place, whether because of...
View ArticleDemocratic Districts Under Scrutiny for Lucrative ICE Contracts
Public pressure from Democrats continues to mount against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been newly deputed under the Trump Administration. That’s been putting some blue cities and...
View ArticleLawsuit Claims Trump Administration Detains Immigrant Kids for Too Long
A federal lawsuit filed in New York on Tuesday night claims the Trump administration is taking too long to release immigrant kids in detention, putting them at psychological risk. The plaintiffs...
View ArticleInside the Big Business of Migrant Detention
Across the country, detained immigrants make pennies a day at their jobs in detention. Jobs like cleaning or cooking. As the Trump administration continues to expand immigrant detention, the companies...
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Immigrant Detainees Held in Cells for Days During Lockdown at NJ Jail
Detainees at the largest immigrant lock-up in the New York area, the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, were held in their cells for days earlier this month, as helmet-clad officers swept...
View ArticleCEO of Company Housing Migrant Children Detainees Steps Down
CEO of Company Housing Migrant Children Detainees Steps Down The C.E.O. of Southwest Key, a private company that houses the plurality of migrant children in U.S. shelters, has resigned after facing...
View ArticleCEO of Company Housing Migrant Children Detainees Steps Down
Southwest Key C.E.O. Juan Sanchez has resigned after facing scrutiny from his own organization and federal investigators over financial improprieties. In December, The New York Times reported on...
View ArticleImmigrant Detainee Says He Was X-Rayed for Contraband
Yuri McKoy just wrapped up a visit with his newborn son, Joshua, when he went in for the mandatory strip search in one of the few places at the Essex County Correctional Facility that doesn't have a...
View ArticleA Cautionary Tale For DACA Recipients From A Detained Student
In March of 2018, Omar Helalat was a college student at SUNY Albany preparing to earn his bachelor’s degree in business administration. He said he was bound for an internship in New York City. "I was...
View ArticleWaiting in Mexico
On Tuesday, President Trump stood on the White House lawn waving a single piece of paper, and boasting about the trade deal he claims to have struck with the Mexican government. For much of the past...
View ArticleICE Deports Cabbie Despite Ongoing Investigation into His Alleged Abuse at...
Bronx taxi driver Faruk Karimu was deported to Ghana this week without prior warning and despite an ongoing criminal investigation into his claim that he was beaten and raped by corrections officers at...
View ArticleUnsettled in Japan, Part 3: Flying Across Borders And Ending Up Detained
In the United States, some 12,000 asylum seekers currently sit in prisons, even though they passed initial interviews indicating their claims of persecution or torture are legitimate. Asylum seekers...
View ArticleICE Detainees in Newark Allege Poor Medical Care and Mistreatment
Detainees at the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the New York and New Jersey area and their advocates say they are receiving substandard medical care, with Pepto-Bismol...
View ArticleTrump Administration Escalates Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities
The Trump administration’s battle against sanctuary cities wages on. As first reported by The New York Times, Customs and Border Protection (CPB) will be deploying dozens of border agents over the...
View ArticleImmigration Lawyers Demand ICE Release New York Detainees Now
Immigration lawyers are taking new, aggressive steps demanding the release of dozens of elderly and medically compromised New York immigrants held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention,...
View ArticleICE Detainees in Newark On Hunger Strike, Seeking Release
At least 10 detainees at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark began a hunger strike Tuesday and dozens more have agreed to join in, according to two detainees, jailhouse advocates, and...
View ArticleImmigration Advocates Call on ICE to Release Detainees
UPDATE:BREAKING: An immigrant being held at a jail in New Jersey has become the first Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee to test positive for the coronavirus in the US, an agency official...
View ArticleImmigration Judges and Lawyers Say Their Lives Are At Risk, As NYC Court...
Judges must still report to the Lower Manhattan immigration court at Varick Street, even though it was closed Tuesday due to a case of coronavirus. Some immigration lawyers are also attending hearings....
View ArticleICE Quietly Releases Hundreds of Local Immigrants As COVID-19 Tears Through...
At the Hudson, Essex and Bergen County jails in New Jersey, where the majority of immigrants picked up by ICE in the New York City region end up, 20 percent of immigrant detainees have been released...
View ArticleLawyers Sue To Free All Immigrants From New Jersey Facility
Attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit Friday demanding that everyone held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a privately-run detention center in Elizabeth, N.J., be immediately...
View ArticleICE Detainee Who Sued His Jailers Was Swiftly Deported. Now He’s Missing.
On May 15, an undocumented Mexican immigrant locked up in a private New Jersey jail plagued by COVID-19 filed a class-action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its contractor,...
View ArticlePardoned By Cuomo But Detained By ICE, Bronx Immigrant Marks Three Years In...
In an extraordinary move six months ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pardoned 26-year-old Gambian immigrant Ousman Darboe from the Bronx for the one adult criminal conviction on his record—for allegedly robbing...
View ArticleRevisiting Caught: 'You Just Sit There and Wait for the Next Day to Come'
Incarcerated youth do what it takes to survive in prison everyday, in the hopes of making it back home someday. In this final installment of our presentation of Caught, reporter Jared Marcelle finds Z...
View ArticleICE Accused of Beating Up Uzbek Man at JFK Airport
Immigration agents hit and used a stun gun on a Uzbek man in the middle of John F. Kennedy International Airport last year, according to a new lawsuit, because he refused to be deported due to the fact...
View ArticleICE Deports 54 Immigrants From New Jersey
Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed 54 immigrants -- an extraordinarily high number -- from the Essex County Correctional Facility Tuesday for deportation. The jail is the largest facility in...
View ArticleReleased From ICE Detention Due To COVID, NJ Green Card Holder Is Detained...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement released scores of older and medically compromised detainees in the spring as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States. Now, just as coronavirus cases...
View ArticleImmigration Arrest Tactics Come Under Scrutiny for Mimicking NYPD
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it nabbed 54 people in the New York metro area during the first week of October, most of whom had been arrested by local law enforcement and then released. But...
View ArticleCourt Rules Government Must Prove Danger to Community When Detaining an...
Carlos Velasquez Lopez, of Westchester, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2018 after he was charged with driving while intoxicated. He was held in ICE detention in Orange County,...
View ArticleAs Election Nears, ICE Looks For New Detention Centers in NY and NJ
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for two new detention centers to jail immigrants near Manhattan and Newark, worrying advocates for immigrants that more detainees could be jailed in worse...
View ArticleN.J. Democrats Reverse Stance, Reject Residents’ Pleas, and Vote To Continue...
Democratic officials in Hudson County, NJ, voted Tuesday night to continue to jail immigrants for the federal government, reversing a 2018 plan to phase out the contract with Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleProposed Law Would Ban ICE Detention in New Jersey
A New Jersey assemblyman introduced a bill this week that would ban the federal government from holding immigrants in private and local jails in the state. Immigration & Customs Enforcement's...
View ArticleDetained Immigrants Seek Release Under Biden’s New Enforcement Priorities,...
ICE said it started implementing the new priorities Monday. Officers now focus on immigrants considered threats to national security, border security and public safety. Andrea Saenz of Brooklyn...
View ArticleWhy is WNBA Star Brittney Griner Being Detained in Russia?
It’s been nearly a month now since WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained in Russia. Russian authorities only announced Griner’s detention earlier this month, two weeks after arresting her, after...
View ArticleAnimating Real Stories of Immigration
The new animated documentary Home is Somewhere Else tells the stories of immigrant children and their undocumented families. At a time when immigration policy is at a crossroads, can an animated...
View ArticleA Harrowing Detention in Gaza
Growing up in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha wasn’t used to seeing Israeli soldiers in person. “You are bombed from the sky. You are bombed by tanks. You do not see the people, the soldiers who are killing you...
View ArticleA Harrowing Detention in Gaza
Growing up in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha wasn’t used to seeing Israeli soldiers in person. “You are bombed from the sky. You are bombed by tanks. You do not see the people, the soldiers who are killing you...
View ArticleA Harrowing Detention in Gaza
Growing up in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha wasn’t used to seeing Israeli soldiers in person. “You are bombed from the sky. You are bombed by tanks. You do not see the people, the soldiers who are killing you...
View ArticleBlinken tours Middle East to prevent regional escalation
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s five-day Middle East mission is raising questions about the limits of US leverage in the region and how Washington’s agenda is diverging from Israel’s goals. And,...
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