While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals, including some linked to the condition.
Over the past four months, photojournalist Adriana Loureiro Fernández documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. In this photo essay, part of ProPublica’s investigation into the Trump administration’s deportation of 238 Venezuelan immigrants to the prison known as CECOT, Fernández documents the men’s experiences and the turmoil their families faced.
On Mother’s Day in the Boston suburbs, ICE and FBI officers stopped a family on their way to church, threatening Daniel Flores-Martinez with what the family and a bystander believe was a gun. His three children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car. Agents broke the window, forced Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him roughly to the ground.
The incident was captured by then-high school student Kenneth Santizo, who was nearby waiting for his bus. It was a “really emotional scene,” Santizo said. ProPublica spoke with Santizo about what he saw.
