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.

L.A. County deputies shot and killed Anthony Weber during a foot chase on Feb 4, 2018. They said they spotted a handgun tucked into his pants, but investigators never recovered a weapon.

Capital & Main looks at all the top immigration stories in our new weekly rundown called “This Week in Immigration Under Trump”.

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.

1. Investigating Labor Secretary Nominee Andrew Puzder’s Fast Food Empire
2. The Golden State of Hate: California and White Nationalism in the Age of Trump
3. Charge Time: Electric Car Workers Accuse Tesla of Low Pay and Intimidation
4. Fire and ICE: Inside California’s Fight Against the Trump Immigration Crackdown
5. The Bottom Line, a podcast on business and society.
6. Promise Breakers: How Regulators Failed to Stop a Sacramento Lead Hazard
7. Can Unions — and the American Middle Class — Survive the Supreme Court’s Janus Decision?
8. Can California Ban Fracking?
9. Trouble in Eden: A Divided Marin County Community Gets a New Charter School
10. Deadly Detention: Why Are Immigrants Dying in ICE Custody?

Today Capital & Main publishes an investigative series by reporter Joe Rubin on the failure of the city of Sacramento and two state agencies responsible for safeguarding the public from the hazards of lead. Read Rubin’s Promise Breakers stories and watch this video created by Rubin and his multimedia team.

See These Stories —

• How Regulators Failed to Stop a Sacramento Lead Hazard

• Questions About Missing Cash and a Toxic Gun Range

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A severely disabled boy and his caregiver face an uncertain future with the passage of the American Health Care Act.

(Also see AHCA stories by Paul Tullis and Rex Weiner.)

For decades white nationalists were a fringe element in American politics. But now anti-immigrant extremists with ties to white supremacists hold key positions at the highest level of government.