Topher Sanders & Michael Grabell

Topher Sanders covers race, inequality, and the justice system for ProPublica. Michael Grabell covers economic issues, labor, immigration, and trade.

A security guard checks cars at the entrance to Casa Padre, a former Walmart that is now a center for unaccompanied immigrant children, on June 24th, 2018, in Brownsville, Texas.
Social Justice

Threatened Shutdown of Failing Immigrant Children Shelters Could Cause a Crisis

Despite its numerous failures in keeping the children it's housing safe, an Arizona facility may keep its federal funding due to a lack of other options.