Lawyers Fight ICE for Access to Their Clients: New York Brief

Immigration attorneys struggle to reach clients, Bill Hwang’s lawyer takes our questions, and a Minnesota man is charged with a foiled plot to free Luigi Mangione, below:

Cook County Police officers outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill.

Photographer: Kamil Krzaczynski via Getty Images

Attorneys are scrambling to find and make contact with clients caught in the Trump administration’s nationwide deportation blitz.

I’m Beth Wang, a reporter covering New York courts. Maia Spoto, Megan Crepeau, and I have spent months digging through federal courts filings and interviewing attorneys to understand what’s happening at ICE detention centers from Los Angeles to New York City to Dilley, Texas.

What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us ...