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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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opinion

The Mississippi ICE Jail Where Detainees Just Keep Waiting

‘NO WAY TO PRACTICE LAW’

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

Paul Moses, Tim Healy | Published Nov 29, 2020

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

THE OUTER LIMIT

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

Paul Moses, Tim Healy | Published Jun 02, 2020

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

DRAGNET

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

Paul Moses, Tim Healy | Published Mar 31, 2020

Asylum Rejection Rate Explodes in NYC Immigration Court

‘ALL RIGHT, STOP’

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

Paul Moses, Tim Healy | Published Dec 02, 2019
opinion

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

‘MIGHT AS WELL BE ROY COHN’

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 | Published Jul 09, 2019

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

‘A CRIME OF POWER’

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.

Paul Moses | Published Sep 08, 2018

Is ICE Bullying Iraqis to Sign ‘Voluntary’ Deportations?

‘GRAVE RISK’

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 | Published Jun 15, 2018

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

‘PLEASE HELP’

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 | Published Jun 08, 2018
opinion

The Left Wing Has Its Own ‘Fake News’ Problem

‘Threat to Our Democracy’

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

Paul Moses | Published May 30, 2018

‘Lawlessness’ in Immigration Jails for 250,000 Detainees

‘Due Process’

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

Paul Moses | Published Jan 14, 2018

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