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Paul Moses

Paul Moses is a former City Hall bureau chief and city editor at Newsday’s New York City edition and the author, most recently, of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015). He is a retired professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY.

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‘NO WAY TO PRACTICE LAW’

The Mississippi ICE Jail Where Detainees Just Keep Waiting

A tale of two courts emerges from the Trump administration’s mass incarceration of immigrants in the Deep South.

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THE OUTER LIMIT

A ‘Bizarro-World’ Where the Constitution Isn’t Applied

Detainees can be held for weeks or months before seeing a judge. The Justice Department gave “the word of the agency under penalty of perjury” that it would fix that—but only in NY

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DRAGNET

Is ICE’s Risk Tool Sentencing Innocents to COVID-19 Death?

Starting in 2017, the agency went from freeing nearly half of low-risk detainees in New York to under 4 percent.

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‘ALL RIGHT, STOP’

Asylum Rejection Rate Explodes in NYC Immigration Court

“It’s basically like the same problem with putting quotas on police officers for tickets.”

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‘MIGHT AS WELL BE ROY COHN’

The U.S. Attorneys Who Once Revered Rudy Now Loathe Him

James Comey was among the Reagan-era prosecutors who saw Rudy’s SDNY as ‘a dream job.’ Now, Rudy says his old team was a ‘quintessential Eastern elite.’

Paul Moses

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‘A CRIME OF POWER’

The Church’s Hidden Shame: Priests Abused Grown Women, Too

The author of the leading study on the topic warned that clergy sexual abuse of women “is much more pervasive” than that of children. And the Church still hasn’t reckoned with it.

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‘GRAVE RISK’

Is ICE Bullying Iraqis to Sign ‘Voluntary’ Deportations?

A judge will consider an emergency motion Monday in the latest twist to ICE’s attempt to deport 1,400 Iraqis, many of them Chaldean Christians who fear torture in their homeland.

Paul Moses

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‘PLEASE HELP’

‘The Worst Place Ever’ Is an ICE Jail in Alabama

Williamson was a healthy 45-year-old man when he and Reynolds, held by ICE pending deportation, arrived at the county-run Alabama jail after a snow-delayed, double-shackled trip...

Paul Moses

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‘Threat to Our Democracy’

The Left Wing Has Its Own ‘Fake News’ Problem

Politicians’ self-interested complaints about ‘corporate media’ are part of what’s eroding confidence in mainstream news coverage.

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‘Due Process’

‘Lawlessness’ in Immigration Jails for 250,000 Detainees

Immigrants imprisoned without bond and facing deportation are 2,600 times more likely to accept ‘voluntary’ departures.

Paul Moses

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