Pratheek Rebala — ProPublica

These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained

Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be deported rather than wait in detention centers.

September 3, 2026, 5:00 am EDT

Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters

August 14, 2026, 6:00 am EDT
Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities

August 14, 2026, 5:00 am EDT
Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct

July 28, 2026, 5:00 am EDT
“No One Is Watching”: How Trump Reversed Biden’s Crackdown on Gun Trafficking

June 1, 2026, 5:00 am EDT
Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods

May 6, 2026, 5:00 am EDT
Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled

April 14, 2026, 10:00 am EDT
Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border

April 2, 2026, 5:00 am EDT
DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator

March 20, 2026, 6:00 am EDT
The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law

March 16, 2026, 5:00 am EDT
Tracking Habeas Cases

February 10, 2026, 5:05 am EST