Arizona
On the front lines of U.S. immigration enforcement, Arizona’s courts and detention centers process a disproportionate share of the nation’s cases. Reporters at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at ASU’s Cronkite School documented conditions inside the system and the lives of people caught within it – from families in Phoenix to migrants held at remote facilities near the border.
Arizona State University
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Behind the Docket
Story by Project Staff
One month, six universities, 62 students, 1,025 proceedings: Scenes from an overstrained immigration system in America.
Bonds without bounds
Story by Mia Osmonbekov
A middle-aged man detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with no criminal record, a 15-year history with his local church, and a U.S. citizen wife and children, sat in an Eloy, Arizona, immigration court.
Immigration courts face pressure to move faster
Story by Tymber Klahr
Photos by Ike Wood
Attorneys and former judges say Trump administration policies aimed at efficiency risk limiting fairness.
What we observed in U.S. immigration courts
Story by Griffin W. Fellows & Brenne Sheehan
Photos by Ike Wood
Lives in the Balance brought together six universities to document and observe immigration court hearings..