Jacqueline Stevens | The Nation

Immigration judges who flagrantly disregard the law are sheltered by a secretive system.

Inside ICE's secret detention facility on Varick Street in Manhattan.

ICE agents regularly impersonate civilians--OSHA inspectors, insurance agents, religious workers--in order to arrest longtime US residents who have no criminal history.

Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices.

You don't need to go to Iran or North Korea to find secret courts. Try attending a US immigration hearing.

In its zeal, the federal immigration agency has been deporting US citizens.

Scientists as well as financial analysts caution that gene therapies may never come to fruition.Yet in an elaborate effort to insure that the genetic icon will not lose its luster, an international group of profit-minded and ideological biotech advocates has been pushing self-serving and, critics say, error-laden predictions in innocuous mainstream and even avant-garde exhibit halls, books and websites. Vital to the plan's success, according to its architects, is that the influence behind these productions remain hidden.