Jeremy Raff
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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.
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Jose Cabezas / AFP / Getty ICE Is a Godsend for One Small Town in Texas
After the immigrant detention center in Raymondville closed down, the local economy took a dive. Officials hope its reopening will bring an influx of cash and jobs.
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Courtesy / Getty / The Atlantic ICE Is Pressuring Separated Parents to Choose Deportation
Immigrants and lawyers say the agency is trying to “coerce or confuse” detainees into thinking deportation is the only way to get their kids back.
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic Kids Describe the Fear of Separation at the Border
Children who experienced the “icebox” say they didn’t know if they would see their parents again.
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The Lucky Ones
Migrant children describe crossing the border and spending days in a detention center.
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic Nine Days of Agony
From behind bars, a father searches for one of the 2,000 kids still separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Jeremy Raff Purgatory at the Border
Families fleeing gang violence are stuck at a pedestrian bridge between the U.S. and Mexico. They’re hungry, exhausted, and scared for their lives.
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Watch the U.S. Turn Away Asylum Seekers at the Border
Fleeing violence, a family faces the Trump administration's crackdown.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters To Stop Gangs, First You Have to Find Them
Rejecting members of MS-13 is the centerpiece of the president’s immigration strategy. But it’s not easy to tell who’s really in a gang.
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(Jeremy Raff / Atthar Mirza / The Atlantic) 'So What? Maybe It Is a Concentration Camp'
Joe Arpaio made his name by building a harsh jail in the desert. Now, Trump is promising to take his punitive approach to immigration national.
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The American Detention Machine
“U.S. history is not about the nation of immigrants.”
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic The 'Double Punishment' for Black Undocumented Immigrants
Although only 7 percent of non-citizens in the U.S. are black, they make up 20 percent of those facing deportation on criminal grounds.
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Jeremy Raff / The Atlantic Arpaio Tells Bannon He Wants to Head the Marshal's Service
The former Maricopa County Sheriff—convicted of criminal contempt, and then pardoned by the president—is still seeking the limelight.
