Jeremy Raff
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How Fear Spreads the Coronavirus
Undocumented immigrants sick with COVID-19 are scared to seek care. Gladys Vega is trying to help.
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‘Don’t Let Us Die in Here’
A group of women in an ICE detention center calls for help.
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What Doctors Are Afraid Of
At the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers describe a new world of chaos, fear, and suffering.
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The Atlantic ‘We Are Like Sitting Ducks’
Karlena Dawson is at high risk of complications from COVID-19. Where she lives makes her even more vulnerable: a Seattle immigrant-detention center.
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Matthew Genitempo The Undocumented Agent
After spending nearly two decades facilitating deportations as a Customs and Border Protection officer, Raul Rodriguez discovered that he was not a U.S. citizen. Now he’s at risk of deportation himself.
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A Secret at the Border
As a Border Patrol agent, Raul Rodriguez deported thousands of people. Now he faces his own deportation.
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John Moore / Getty Sick Migrant Children Are at the Whims of U.S. Border Guards
Agents repeatedly denied entry to a 7-year-old with a life-threatening illness. Why did they change their minds?
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He Fought for Migrant Kids. Then He Got Rich.
Juan Sanchez built his career fighting for migrant children. Later, he made millions off them.
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Robert Spriggs / Nana_Studio / Shutterstock / Katie … How Family Separations Brought Down a Migrant Mogul
Juan Sanchez was once hailed as a champion for social justice. Then his network of shelters started taking in children split from their relatives.
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse
Dolly Lucio Sevier evaluated dozens of sick children at a facility in South Texas. She found evidence of infection, malnutrition, and psychological trauma.
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Jeremy Raff The Chapel at the Border
A “cowboy priest” confronts the wall and the military presence on the banks of the Rio Grande.
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‘Christians Build Bridges, Not Walls’
At the U.S.-Mexico border, a priest tries to save his chapel, which is in the direct path of the proposed border wall.
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He Was a Drug Cop. Then His Daughter Overdosed.
A personal tragedy forces a narcotics officer to rethink his stance on the drug war.
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Aaron Raff A Narcotics Officer Ends His War on Drugs
Kevin Simmers locked up hundreds of drug users—including his own daughter—while the opioid epidemic raged. Now he wants 24-hour treatment on demand.
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Rebecca Blackwell / Reuters Some Immigrant Parents Fear Losing Their Children Forever
Immigrant children separated from their parents can spend months, even years, in American foster homes. There have even been rare cases in which state officials have authorized permanent adoptions without notifying deported parents.
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic Putting Family Separation on Film
A bonus video for Masthead members. And Jeremy Raff reflects on his documentary, The Separated.
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic ‘The Separation Was So Long. My Son Has Changed So Much.’
U.S. border guards took a 6-year-old Honduran boy from his mother, and ultimately returned a deeply traumatized child.
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How Family Separation Traumatized Children
An unflinching look at one family's experience being forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Fear and Anxiety at Refugee Road
Hundreds of immigrants in Columbus, Ohio face an ICE crackdown.
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Trailer: The Fight to Reunify Separated Families
An upcoming Atlantic documentary follows a pro bono attorney on her quest to help a migrant mother get her son back.
