Attorneys are scrambling to find and make contact with clients caught in the Trump administration’s nationwide deportation blitz.
I’m Beth Wang, a reporter covering New York courts. Maia Spoto, Megan Crepeau, and I’ve spent months digging through federal courts filings and interviewing attorneys to understand what’s happening at ICE detention centers from Los Angeles to New York City to Dilley, Texas.
What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees ...