AL.com journalists John Archibald and Will McLelland document the deportation of Fonzie Andrade, a man brought to the United States from Mexico at age one who spent most of his life in Alabama. After being detained by ICE in July 2025 and held for three months, Andrade was deported to a country he has virtually no connection to. The reporting follows him to Mexico and examines the impact on his fiancée and their one-year-old child left behind in the United States.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour interviews pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who recounts his experience inside a Louisiana ICE detention facility. Khalil was arrested outside his apartment on Columbia University’s campus and held for more than three months before speaking publicly about conditions at the facility.