For those moved to detention facilities elsewhere in the country the odds of winning asylum decrease greatly.
Facing torture if returned to their homelands, immigrants are detained for years as appeals drag on.
Expensive per-minute fees make calls unaffordable for many migrant detainees, who can earn as little as $1 a day working in ICE facilities.
With knowledge of personal details, ICE imposters have coaxed thousands of dollars from fearful relatives of detainees.
Advocates say the new approach could help transform the country’s immigration system.
How Florida Has Become the Epicenter of ICE’s Shameful COVID Response
The Adelanto Detention Facility is again in the center of controversy, allegedly using protests taking place outside the facility as an excuse to mistreat detainees.
Since 2003, 19 detainees have died within Arizona’s detention centers.
Seven immigrant children have died under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policies.
JeanCarlo Jimenez is one of 179 immigrants to die in U.S. custody since 2003. The missteps and errors of ICE and its contractors have led to concerns about the safety of immigrant detainees.
Capital & Main’s new project, Deadly Detention, is intended to give names and faces to undocumented immigrants who have died in federal detention, and to explain how they met such sad fates in the country most had come to in search of better lives.
Perhaps no year in living memory presented greater challenges and opportunities to the press than 2017, and Capital & Main was no exception. In response to the Trump presidency, we expanded our coverage well beyond California, while continuing to investigate the fault lines that undergird the nation’s most populous state. We also deepened our reporting on immigration, hate and white nationalism and climate change – issues that will define the Trump era. And we began a long-term commitment to examining business and social responsibility.
Here are 10 series and stories from 2017 that offer a window into how Capital & Main made sense of an extraordinary year in the history of our nation and state.
Perhaps no year in living memory presented greater challenges and opportunities to the press than 2017, and Capital & Main was no exception.