I conducted this four-month-long investigation revealing the federal government's lack of limits on bonds set by immigration judges for people in detention centers with the support of the Scripps Howard Foundation as my graduate school capstone.
I pored over court documents, analyzed two federal databases, interviewed dozens of attorneys, advocates and experts, observed immigration court proceedings and went through fact-checking and data and legal review to put this together.
A nationwide reporting initiative into immigration courts under the second Trump administration published my story alongside those produced by six universities as part of a Carnegie-Knight collaboration called "Lives in the Balance". Scroll below to read it in full:
