Robert S. Kahn is a newspaper editor and freelance writer in California. His investigations of INS abuses in immigration prisons have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, and the National Catholic Reporter.

• Introduction -- The Border is a Third Country -- Murder By Remote Control -- The Corralon -- Washington, D.C. -- Laredo -- Florence Prison -- Oakdale -- Children of the Contras -- Brownsville -- Other People's Blood