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“The Most Horrible Thing I’ve Ever Done”: A Border Patrol Officer Who Separated Families Speaks Out
Wesley Farris, a high-ranking officer with El Paso’s Border Patrol Union, describes what it was like to separate migrant children from their parents in a FRONTLINE documentary: “You can’t help but see your own kids.”
January 7, 2020
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Targeting El Paso
How El Paso became the Trump administration’s immigration policy testing ground and then the target of a white supremacist.
January 7, 2020
Kate Miner’s Tragic Journey Through the U.S. Indian Health Service
An X-ray found clear signs of cancer. What happened next showed the federal agency’s systemic failures.
December 23, 2019
Inside Idaho’s Long Legislative Battle Over Climate Change Education
What schools should teach kids about climate change — or whether to teach it at all — has become hotly disputed in at least a dozen states. But rarely has that debate been more contentious or long-lasting than in Idaho.
December 20, 2019
Indian Health Service Effort to Protect Patients From Abuse Needs Work, Report Says
The U.S. Indian Health Service’s latest effort to protect patients from abuse falls short, federal inspectors said, despite a rush to overhaul policies after a sex abuse scandal.
December 20, 2019
‘Cull Her Out’: How Megyn Kelly went from Fox News Star to Alt-Right Target
In a new interview with FRONTLINE, Megyn Kelly revealed what it was like to go from Fox News star to alt-right target — and the pressure it put on her network’s then-CEO, Roger Ailes.
December 13, 2019
Six CEOs and No Operating Room: The Impossible Job of Fixing the Indian Health Service
Rear Adm. Michael Weahkee, nominated to lead the troubled agency, struggled to turn around a South Dakota hospital.
December 10, 2019
As a New Governor Takes Office, Kentucky Pensions Still on the Brink
In March 2018, thousands of Kentucky teachers descended on the state’s capital to protest looming changes to their pensions: changes championed by the state’s controversial Republican Gov. Matt Bevin. “We’ll remember in November,” they chanted. In last month's closely contested governor’s race, they kept their promise.
December 10, 2019
Inside a Shelter Holding Detained Migrant Kids
It’s run by a for-profit company whose leadership includes former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
November 12, 2019
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press Investigate the Trump Administration’s Record-Breaking Mass Detention of Migrant Children
On Tuesday, November 12, FRONTLINE will present a two-part hour. Part one, in collaboration with The Associated Press, is "Kids Caught in the Crackdown"; Part two is "Iraq's Secret Sex Trade."
November 8, 2019
Last Man Standing: The Immigration Insurgent Who Survived the Trump White House
More than a decade before he would shape critical White House immigration policy, Stephen Miller was a university firebrand.
October 22, 2019