Meg Anderson
Meg Anderson is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. She covers criminal justice issues, including gun violence in America and its solutions; conditions in prisons and detention centers; how police officers do their jobs; and how the criminal legal system treats the nation's most vulnerable. Previously, as part of NPR's Investigations team, she reported on delays in medical care within the federal Bureau of Prisons and served as a producer on the series Lost Mothers, which investigated the high rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. That series won a Peabody award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. She has also reported for NPR's politics and education desks, and for WAMU, the local Member station in Washington, D.C. She is based in the Midwest.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase high-tech gloves that deliver electric shocks to people they're trying to detain.
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An ACLU report looks at widespread use of force in immigration enforcement in the first year of President Trump's return to office. Recent fatal shootings in Texas and Maine have renewed scrutiny on the agency's tactics. -
A newly revealed Department of Homeland Security document outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology, a move that will expand the scope of ICE surveillance.
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ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data. -
The federal government is offering local law enforcement incentives to join a program that gives their officers authority to make immigration arrests. Police leaders say the funds, which include money for salaries, equipment and vehicles, are enticing. -
ICE seems to be changing from aggressive immigration enforcement on city streets to an apparent return to operations that rely heavily on local law enforcement. But even in Florida, where sheriffs are required to cooperate with ICE, some conservative sheriffs have concerns about pursuing immigrants with no criminal records. -
Protests against the Trump administration are planned to take place around the country today. Organizers say there may be more than 3,000 rallies across 50 states.
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NPR spent time inside a Minnesota school talking with educators, parents, and children as it tries to help kids feel safe again after the ICE surge. -
People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data. -
Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that the immigration surge that prompted widespread protests and claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens is drawing to a close.
