Standing outside the Louisville Metropolitan Hall, Aminata “Amina” Seck described the eerie loneliness of being kept in isolation during her two-month detention while she renewed her student visa. When she first approached the podium at a press conference on Oct. 7, the Kentucky State University basketball star from Senegal grabbed her own arm, self-soothing. Her […]
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College Student Dies Amid ICE Crackdown on Haitian Immigrants
Last month, Pierre Damas Bel started his first year at Wright State University with the kind of future his family had crossed borders to imagine. The 20-year-old, an honors graduate of Springfield High School in Ohio and JROTC member who emigrated from Haiti in 2024, planned to study neuroscience, play soccer, and eventually attend medical […]
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A Federal Judge Is Examining the Justice Department’s Case Against Don Lemon
Months after the arrest of journalist Don Lemon, a federal judge in Minnesota will probe whether grounds exist to toss the Justice Department’s case against him. On Aug. 18, Minnesota federal Judge Laura Provinzino issued an order demanding the Justice Department provide her with a wide swath of grand jury materials related to Lemon and […]
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Savannah State Student Keeps Fighting for His Baseball Dream Despite ICE Detention
Savannah State University student Johan Sandoval felt like the world had turned its back on him while he was being held in a New York detention center for two weeks, but God and his love for baseball remained a constant. While in custody, Sandoval and other detainees played baseball using makeshift bases made from sandals. […]
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After FAMU Signed ICE Deal, Students Demanded Answers, and Were Met With Silence
The signs read “ICE OUT,” “REFUSE RESIST FIGHT FASCISM,” and other slogans common at protests against the federal immigration crackdown. But the protest was not in the streets of one of the U.S. cities where residents were turning out by the thousands for days on end to demand an end to the crackdown. It was […]
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Capital B Condemns Arrests of Journalists Over Minneapolis Coverage
Capital B stands in solidarity with journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who were arrested today in connection to their coverage of an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest earlier this month at a Minneapolis church — an act of journalism unequivocally protected by the First Amendment. We join statements by the National Association of Black […]
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ICE Shooting After Takeover of Minneapolis Renews Debate on Qualified Immunity
Minneapolis entered January with unusually mild weather and a sense of calm, but that was shattered two days later when a federal immigration officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. Less than 24 hours later, a man and woman in Portland, Oregon, were shot and wounded by Customs and Border Protection agents. As immigration crackdowns […]
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Calls for Justice Grow After ICE Shooting of Minneapolis Mom
Jacob Davis suspected that nothing positive would come from the Trump administration’s announcement on Tuesday that it had deployed some 2,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota. One day later, Renee Nicole Good was dead. The mother of three was in her car when a U.S. Immigration and […]
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Ghanaians Across Two Continents Are Living in Fear as U.S. Immigration Crackdowns Intensify
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Capital B has chosen to use first names for some sources due to security concerns. Photos by Adam Mahoney except where noted. GREATER ACCRA REGION, Ghana — About an hour and a half east of Ghana’s capital city, Gladys Adgy stood outside a stand in Kpone waiting […]
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West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
ACCRA, Ghana — A West African woman deported by the United States to Ghana recently attempted suicide in custody, and several other deportees have been secretly transferred, according to Ana Dionne-Lanier, an attorney for one of the deportees. Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration […]
