"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.

"[M]ost detainees with a legal claim to stay in the United States are routinely transferred to more remote jails before they can be helped. The lawyers say their effort has laid bare the fundamental unfairness of a system where immigrant detainees, unlike criminal defendants, can be held without legal representation and moved from state to state without notice.

In a report to be issued on Mo… Continue

"Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty.

Pending cases will be dismissed, and those who paid the $204 fine for the charge, which does not exist in the city, will be reimbursed, Kunkle said."

SCOTT GOLDSTEIN in the… Continue

From New York to Jamaica, families struggle to stay together. ColorLines investigates the effects of deportation on families of color.

JULIANNE ONG HING, JORGE RIVAS, and SETH WESSLER in ColorLines.

[Funded in part by the Institute for Justice and Journalism, now based in Oakland, California, after nine years at USC's Annenberg School for Communication.]

Tom Barry in Border Lines unpacks the scandal at the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas.