‘Like Amazon Prime but with human beings’: inside Trump’s deportation machine – podcast

Data leak gives Guardian US investigations team an unprecedented look into Trump's deportation regime - and how people are seemingly being disappeared'. Oliver Laughland and Maanvi Singh report

Near the 13th hole of a golf course in Alexandria, rural Louisiana, the Guardian US's southern bureau chief, Oliver Laughland, could see a telling image of where America is at the moment'. On one side, golfers teeing off on a scorching hot day; on the other, in the distance and through a fence, lines of people shackled at the feet and hands, loaded on to planes'.

They were people being held at the Alexandria staging facility, a detention and removal centre that has become central to Donald Trump's deportation regime.