Detention

What the agency actually wants is the funding to detain more people than ever before.

Pre-trial detention hurts defendants and taxpayers.

Peter Brown remained locked in a county jail for weeks, as county officials waited for immigration authorities to deport him to Jamaica—a country he had never lived in.

Hundreds of family asylum seekers were released in Arizona this week without shelter, overwhelming churches and non-profits as communities scrambled to accommodate them.

The case—Brett Kavanaugh's first as a Supreme Court justice—deals with mandatory detention laws to keep immigrants in prisons during trials, even if they aren't a public danger or flight risk.

The Department of Justice urged a federal appeals court to overturn a judge's order blocking officials from restricting abortion access for minors in immigrant detention.

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a feature story on the perils and possibilities of gene-drive to a photo essay documenting camels—and the people who have kept them—around the world.

The Department of Homeland Security maintains that it does not habitually separate detained asylum-seekers from their children without just cause.

The Australian government has been dealing with a refugee crisis that is the product of decades of complex social and political circumstances.

Only a tiny percentage of detained immigrants have attorneys, leaving even those with solid cases to stay in the United States to fend for themselves.

Why the state needs to crack down on its predatory prosecutors—fast.