Patrick Michels
Salon.com
Austin, TX, United States
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"We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls": Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster
The agency’s official tally of COVID-19 cases is almost certainly a vast undercount because so few are tested → Read More
Dozens of Grocery Store Workers Have Died. Here’s What Workers Say Their Employers Did Wrong
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Dozens of grocery store workers have died. Here’s what workers say their employers did wrong.
At major grocery stores, policies have incentivized sick and vulnerable workers to report for duty. Masks and gloves were forbidden. Confusion reigned within chains. → Read More
Dozens of grocery store workers have died. Here’s what workers say their employers did wrong.
At major grocery stores, policies have incentivized sick and vulnerable workers to report for duty. Masks and gloves were forbidden. Confusion reigned within chains. → Read More
N.C. shut down a group home last year. The US just gave it a contract to house migrant children
As the Office of Refugee Resettlement rapidly expands its shelter network, it’s adding providers with little experience and troubling track records. → Read More
US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children
A Reveal investigation finds the resettlement agency relies on clandestine shelters to hold unaccompanied minors. → Read More
US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children
A Reveal investigation finds the resettlement agency relies on clandestine shelters to hold unaccompanied minors. → Read More
ICE’s Human Smuggling Initiative Targeted Parents and Children
ICE used unaccompanied minors as bait to find and arrest undocumented immigrants. → Read More
‘They used the kids to get to parents like me’: How ICE’s human smuggling initiative targeted parents and children
A review of the operation by Reveal casts doubt on the official narrative. → Read More
No One Knows What's Happening in This Tent City for Migrant Kids
The secrecy surrounding the camp has alarmed lawyers and advocates who question the conditions inside. → Read More
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the tent city for migrant kids
Lack of access to the pop-up federal detention camp has frustrated town residents and alarmed advocates who question the conditions there. → Read More
Trump administration agreed to new asylum hearings, but families face another month in detention
Separated families won a second chance to seek asylum under an agreement in federal court, but lawyers say the government has backed off its pledge. → Read More
Flood thy neighbor: Who stays dry and who decides?
One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers → Read More
The Inequality of America’s Levee Systems –
The process is "always driven by property values, for better or worse." → Read More
Flood thy neighbor: Who stays dry and who decides?
One Missouri town's levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers. → Read More
Should development be extinguished on California’s fire-prone hills?
Some officials and residents have begun to wonder aloud whether some fire-prone areas are too dangerous to inhabit → Read More
Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations
Allegations included staff members’ failure to seek medical attention for children → Read More
Why it’s so hard to catch fake immigration lawyers
Fraud victims don't know how to report the crime making it difficult to catch and count fake immigration lawyers → Read More
Migrant Children Sent to Shelters With Histories of Abuse Allegations
Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care. → Read More
Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations
Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse. → Read More