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The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland on Starbase, TX; Cops with “Red Flags” Helping ICE; “Detention Alley”
We speak with Oliver Laughland, The Guardian’s U.S. southern bureau chief and investigations correspondent, about his reporting on the election in Elon Musk’s new company town in Texas called Starbase; his report headlined “Trump officials increasingly recruit local police for immigration enforcement despite red flags,” and also his reporting on conditions in immigrant detention centers in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, which human rights advocates call “Detention Alley” and a “legal black hole.”