This has been in the news lately, so I scoured my database for recent information about a U.S. facility that reopened in Panama in 2025 ...

“Longstanding law dictates that ICE maintain custody and control of immigrants, but… the number of DoD officials greatly outweighed the number of ICE or ICE-contracted officials.” — Senate Judiciary ...

(This is an experiment: I let an LLM crawl my personal database and surface key events, data points, and articles. The LLM gave me a list of events and supporting information, which I treated as a ...

Here is what I’ve seen about the U.S. military presence at the Ecuadorian Air Force’s base at Taura, in Guayas province, about 45 minutes from Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city.

Sending soldiers into the drug war is more performative than productive — and takes a heavier human toll than the law enforcement we should be promoting in Latin America does La Jurisdicción Especial ...

Note Marco Rubio’s use of the passive voice when asked about confronting Colombia’s ELN guerrillas inside Venezuela. The ELN specializes in attacking oil infrastructure. Kicking this hornet’s nest ...

Here’s what you get when you tally ICE arrests per month, in the Deportation Data Project’s processed ICE Arrests dataset, excluding likely duplicates, from FOIA-obtained data. 49,091 arrests in July.

A Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report says that ICE’s customs investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has had to cut back on its counter-fentanyl operations ...

The lethal, illegal boat strikes are back, after a 63-day hiatus following the Venezuela earthquakes. Strikes are back despite overwhelming evidence that they are murder; that many, likely most, of ...

Here’s video of today’s virtual panel discussion on the Trump administration’s lethal, illegal boat strikes. The panelists were amazing, the turnout was robust, and we laid it all out very clearly and ...

For decades, drug lords with names like “El Chapo” and “El Mencho” have been the poster boys of the US fight against Mexican drug trafficking. Now the Trump administration has adopted a new target: ...

As bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, Border Patrol apprehended only 98 people in its 517-mile-long Big Bend Sector in July. Big Bend is pink on this migrant apprehensions chart. You can ...