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What to know about the ongoing protests and arrests outside a New Jersey detention center

A weekslong standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement outside a New Jersey immigration detention center has become the latest flashpoint for protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

 

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Takeaways from AP-KFF investigation into allegations of medical neglect by detainees in ICE custody

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

 

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From festering infections to untreated cancer, ICE detainees across the US describe medical neglect

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

 

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Takeaways from inside a teen treatment center for adoptees, funded by taxpayers: runaways, assaults

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children.

 

Inside a taxpayer-funded treatment center for adoptees, tales of abuse, neglect and little oversight

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children.

 

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Federal judge orders Trump administration to bring back a Colombian woman who was deported to Congo

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring a Colombian woman back to the U.S. from Congo.

 

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Takeaways from AP investigation: Adopted kids confined in for-profit institutions

Takeaways from an Associated Press investigation that finds a business known for tough-love boarding schools for rebellious, rich teenagers has set its sights on a different demographic: adopted kids.

 

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Adopted and Locked Away: Kids promised ‘forever homes’ instead confined in for-profit institutions

An Associated Press investigation finds that a business known for tough-love boarding schools for rebellious, rich teenagers has set its sights on a different demographic: adopted kids.

 

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Iranian Americans fear for relatives in their homeland as war continues

Many in the Iranian American diaspora spent the weekend glued to their TVs, watching news of U.S. and Israeli bombs falling on Iran, some hoping for a brighter future for their homeland but terrified relatives would suffer harm.

 

She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States.

 

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Virginia Supreme Court rules US Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of the U.S. government’s decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.

 

Takeaways on AP report about how US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family.

 

The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family.

 

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Minnesota shooting videos challenge administration narrative, policing experts question tactics

Federal officials say an immigration officer acted in self-defense when he shot through the window of a car, killing the driver, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis.

 

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PHOTO ESSAY: Chicago’s children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

CHICAGO (AP) — Just before noon on a sunny Friday earlier this month, federal immigration agents threw tear gas canisters onto a busy Chicago street, just outside of an elementary school and a children’s play cafe.

 

‘We have to be good or ICE will get us': Takeaways from Chicago children caught in immigration raids

Some Chicago parents and teachers say children were traumatized by a recent immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.

 

Chicago’s children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.

 

Tyre Nichols remembered as beautiful soul with creative eye

Tyre Nichols was brutally attacked by police in Memphis after they pulled him over Jan. 7, 2023. Video of the deadly beating was released to the public on Friday.

 

New Orleans is a city marked by tragedy. But don’t call locals resilient

New Orleans has faced tragedy again and again and always seems to bounce back, maintaining its reputation for jazz and joyfulness.

 

South Korean adoptees and families rocked by fraud allegations

Peg Reif was among more than 120 who contacted The Associated Press this fall, after a series of stories and a documentary made with Frontline exposed how South Korea created a baby pipeline, designed to ship children abroad as quickly as possible to meet Western demand.

 

Thousands were adopted to the US but not made citizens. Decades later, they risk being deported

The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families.

 

Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families.

 

A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted

All her life, Rebecca Kimmel was told she was abandoned. But the baby in her adoption file was not her.

 

Military board substantiates misconduct but declines to fire Marine who adopted Afghan orphan

A U.S. Marine whose adoption of an Afghan war orphan has spurred a yearslong legal battle and raised alarms at the highest levels of government will stay in the Marine Corps.

 

Did this happen to me also? Korean adoptees question their past and ask how to find their families

Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on adoptions from South Korea.

 

Takeaways from AP’s story on the role of the West in widespread fraud with South Korean adoptions

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.

 

Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.

 

Adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has

 

These South Koreans were adopted as babies. Now they’re discovering their past was a lie

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has

 

Appeals court voids Marine’s adoption of Afghan orphan; child’s fate remains in limbo

A Virginia appellate court ruled Tuesday that a U.S. Marine should never have been granted an adoption of an Afghan war orphan and voided the custody order he’s relied on to raise the girl for nearly three years.

 

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