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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Hennepin County officials say these are the first charges filed against a federal immigration agent related to the crackdown that brought thousands of federal officers to the state. The widespread operation led to the shooting deaths of two American citizens. -
Officials in Minnesota have sued the Trump administration, saying federal officials are withholding evidence in the killings of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good by immigration agents in Minneapolis, as well as the non-fatal shooting of a Venezuelan man. -
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. -
Thousands of protests took place around the country today, against the Trump administration. We hear from people who came out about why they were there.
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The acting chief of the Transportation Security Administration told lawmakers Wednesday of mounting hardships for unpaid TSA workers, with hundreds quitting since the DHS shutdown began last month.
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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. -
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies. -
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testified amid a pause in funding to her agency and increased bipartisan scrutiny of her leadership. -
ICE officers often tell people tracking and watching them that they are breaking federal law in doing so, but legal experts say the vast majority of observers are exercising their constitutional rights.
