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Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them, @rjfoley.bsky.social reports. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
ICE says newly relaxed detention standards will “reduce the burden” on contractors and sheriffs who run detention facilities. Experts see reduced liability, cut costs and cheaper labor but few if any improvements for detainees apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE says relaxed detention standards 'reduce the burden' on contractors running its lockups
Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay wages for detainees...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
My latest investigation uncovers some red flags in the backgrounds of some of the newly hired ICE officers apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE went on a hiring spree. Sterling credentials were not required, AP investigation finds
Some new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers started working before passing background checks and had problems in their past.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
OSHA has cited 3 subcontractors, including one owned by a major Trump donor, for safety violations in the death of a worker crushed by falling materials while building ICE detention facility Camp East Montana apnews.com/article/camp...
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3 contractors cited for violations in death of worker building major ICE detention camp
Federal regulators have cited three contractors for safety violations stemming from the death of a worker helping build a major immigration detention center last year.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My latest scoop on Camp East Montana — apnews.com/article/ice-...
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Inspection finds dozens of violations of detention standards at a major immigration camp in Texas
An inspection at the nation’s largest immigration detention facility found dozens of violations of national standards that potentially exposed detainees to excessive force, disease, and other unsafe c...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
ICE replaces contractor at largest detention camp after scrutiny of living conditions apnews.com/article/ice-...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/03/2026
Conditions at ICE's largest detention facility — revealed in data from more than a hundred 911 calls, interviews and court filings — offer a disturbing portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress.
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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility apnews.com/article/suic...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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As political pressure prompts exodus of Minnesota prosecutors, some defendants catch a break
The federal prosecutor’s office in Minnesota has been gutted by a wave of career officials resigning or retiring over objections to Trump administration directives.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused apnews.com/article/ice-...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Here’s what we know about ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Iraq War veteran. 18 years of service with Border Patrol and ICE. Seriously injured in a prior use of force incident last summer. apnews.com/article/immi...
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ICE officer who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis has served decades in military and law enforcement
The agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/12/2025
Combat training drills are a rite of passage for police recruits nationwide, and an Associated Press investigation finds they've left a trail of deaths and injuries.
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Combat training is a rite of passage for police recruits. It's left a trail of deaths and injuries
Combat training drills are a rite of passage for police recruits nationwide, and an Associated Press investigation finds they've left a trail of deaths and injuries.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/12/2025
Dozens of protesters accused of assaulting federal agents in four cities have seen their charges reduced, dismissed or rejected by juries, a review by The Associated Press found.
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DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled
The Justice Department has embarked on a months-long effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting federal officers during protests of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
How a single county jail in Arkansas helps ICE make hundreds of arrests, separating families and spreading fear through communities. Detentions often start with a traffic stop apnews.com/article/immi...
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A quiet corner of Arkansas has become a hot spot for US immigration crackdown, AP finds
A corner of Arkansas best known as home to Walmart headquarters has emerged as a little-known hot spot in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Iowa district hired superintendent despite false Morgan State doctorate claim on his resume apnews.com/article/ian-...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
apnews.com/article/iowa... ICE arrests leader of Iowa's largest public school district, calling him a 'criminal alien'
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ICE arrests leader of Iowa's largest public school district, calling him a 'criminal alien'
Federal immigration agents have arrested the leader of Iowa’s largest school district in a targeted enforcement action that shocked students and educators. U.S.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Grassley calls on AG Bondi to fix mismanagement, claims backlog at benefits program for deceased officers apnews.com/article/gras...
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Sen. Grassley calls delays at a benefits program for deceased officers 'absolutely unacceptable'
A powerful U.S. senator is calling on the Trump administration to fix a growing claims backlog at the program that promises benefits when police and firefighters die or become disabled in the line of ...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
AP investigation: 16 years after a Border Patrol agent died in training, his wife and kids are still being denied federal benefits that have been paid out after several similar deaths. The case shows how more grieving families are waiting years and getting denied aid apnews.com/article/offi...
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A Border Patrol agent died in 2009. His widow is still fighting a backlogged US program for benefits
When her husband died during a U.S. Border Patrol training program for new agents, Lisa Afolayan applied for the federal benefits promised to families of first responders whose lives are cut short die...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Always great to see when an investigation has impact. Experts are pushing for policy and cultural changes to save lives after my reporting documented a surprising number of recruits dying from heat and exertion at police academies apnews.com/article/poli...
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Experts call for action to prevent deaths at US police academies, citing AP investigation
A panel of experts is calling for changes to prevent deaths linked to heat and exertion at the nation’s police academies.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Really proud of the impactful journalism — and the remarkable AP, Frontline and Howard Centers team that produced it — that was honored today as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. See it here: www.pulitzer.org/finalists/22...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
‘It’s going to be devastating’ — apnews.com/article/afge... AFGE president says downsizing after Trump's exec order threatens the union's survival
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AFGE president says downsizing after Trump's order threatens the union's survival
The president of the nation’s largest union for federal workers says the organization’s ongoing staff downsizing will devastate the services it provides members and threatens the group’s survival.
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Carla K. Johnson @carlakjohnson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The email went to grantees working on research related to families, asking them to update their contact information in an attached spreadsheet. But the spreadsheet mistakenly included the department’s secret plans to terminate more than 150 research grants. My colleague Ryan J. Foley has the scoop.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
apnews.com/article/chil... Email mistake reveals secret plans to end research on Head Start and other child safety net programs
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Email mistake reveals secret plans to end research on Head Start and other child safety net programs
A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Largest federal employee union, a leading Trump opponent, to lay off more than half of staff
The largest union for federal employees plans to lay off more than half its staff nationwide after President Donald Trump’s anti-union executive orders have rapidly weakened the organization’s finance...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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This Midwestern city has long been a federal hub. The pain from DOGE’s cuts is everywhere
The Kansas City, Missouri, metropolitan area has long been a regional hub for the federal government, and the pain from the Trump administration's cuts can be seen everywhere.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
GSA records obtained by AP contain a crucial detail that DOGE has not shared with the public: the dates when hundreds of federal offices and buildings will lose their leases this year apnews.com/article/doge...
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Hundreds of federal offices could begin closing this summer at DOGE's behest, internal records show
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is listing all the federal real estate leases it is ending, but new records obtained by The Associated Press show when those cancellations are expected ...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
apnews.com/article/doge... Meet Amy Gleason, the DOGE administrator who may — or may not — be wielding extraordinary power
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Meet Amy Gleason, the DOGE administrator who may — or may not — be wielding extraordinary power
Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service, is not a household name. But as Elon Musk’s effort to dramatically reduce the federal government faces a series of legal challenges, the...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hundreds of the federal contracts canceled by DOGE, nearly 40% in all, are expected to produce no savings to taxpayers apnews.com/article/doge... Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings
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Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save any money.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
After a deputy died during training at a police academy in Indiana, the agency said he'd been participating in routine training. I started hearing about other deaths around the country, and set out to investigate what was going on. Today the @AP published the project. A thread:
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Christopher Jones @chrisajones.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The history of the Iowa Missouri rivalry and then non-rivalry is the history of America. search.app/2VhT4sW568CT...
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Why Mizzou and Iowa didn’t play each other for 100 years
Prior to the 2010 Insight Bowl, the Tigers and Hawkeyes hadn’t played for a century despite the states bordering one another. Why?
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 28/12/2024
Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying 'This is Trump's America now' apnews.com/article/tv-r...
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Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying 'This is Trump's America now'
Court documents show a Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump...
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Phenomenal read here from AP colleagues on how rulings by medical examiners shape whether officers face scrutiny and liability in deaths apnews.com/article/leth...
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Accident or homicide? Medical rulings in arrest-related deaths can dictate what happens to police
Police in the United States rarely face criminal charges when civilians die after the use of force such as physical blows, restraints or Tasers.
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Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Human smuggling case highlights growing number of Indian nationals illegally entering the US from Canada
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An Indian family froze to death crossing the Canada-US border, a perilous trip becoming more common
Two men are accused of helping illegally smuggle Indian nationals across the U.S.-Canada border and into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022.
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