Records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
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Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
Perla Trevizo is covering border and immigration issues
Perla Trevizo, who co-wrote today’s feature story, is investigating how policy changes in Washington play out on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly as they relate to Texas.
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In 2023, ProPublica reporter Jennifer Berry Hawes published a story about some of the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in this country’s history. The photographs, commissioned by a Harvard scientist in 1850, were made to prove a racist belief that Black people were inferior to white people. For generations, Harvard held onto those photographs — until one woman, Tamara Lanier, sued Harvard in 2019 and claimed that some of those enslaved people were her ancestors. She demanded Harvard give up those photographs, and she set out to find a rightful steward for them.
This week, under a settlement announced by the civil rights attorney Ben Crump’s firm, we learned Harvard will relinquish two of the images. They’ll be moved to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, the state where the images were taken and where the people they depict lived — and probably died.
