BRADY McCOMBS and STEPHEN CEASAR in the Arizona Daily Star produced a multi-part series on Operation Stonegarden:

"What is The Texas Tribune?

A non-profit, nonpartisan public media organization. Our mission is to promote civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics, government, and other matters of statewide concern, and we do this in two principal ways.

First, through the original journalism that we report, write, compile, record, shoot, etc., and post online at our destination site, texastribune.org, and in the pages and on th… Continue

Multi-part series by Emily Ramshaw in The Texas Tribune.

Detaining Care, Part One: Mental Hell

Detaining Care, Part Two: Health Scare… Continue

"According to the State Department, as many as 800,000 men, women and children are trafficked around the world each year, as many as 17,000 in the United States. Lured with false promises of well-paying jobs, victims are forced into prostitution, domestic servitude, farm or factory labor, or other types of work.

According to a 2008 Texas attorney general report, the state is considered a major hub for human trafficking. Nearly 20 percent of victims found nationwide have been in Texas, the repor… Continue

"The federal government is paying $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants who sued over their detention and treatment in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11, when hundreds of noncitizens were rounded up and held for months before being cleared of links to terrorism and deported."

NINA BERNSTEIN in the New York Times.