Last December, Evident partnered with Frontline PBS, Bellingcat, and The Washington Post to examine the impact of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. Now, a month after the outbreak of a new war with Iran, our team of documentary journalists and open-source researchers uncover new visual evidence and speak with experts and insiders, shedding light on what remains of the nuclear program that the Trump administration labeled an imminent threat.

Watch the new documentary above or at this link.

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S./Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.

A collaboration between Evident Media, Bellingcat, and CalMatters has tracked these agents, documenting their tactics on the ground and through mountains of video footage, since their first proof-of-concept raid in Bakersfield in January 2025.

Exactly one year later, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, followed weeks later by the killing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent.

Our investigation shows that, beyond those two shootings, immigration agents engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis.

In each city, federal courts stepped in to restrain them from violating civil liberties in that jurisdiction. Agents later deployed to another city. The video evidence suggests that agents’ tactics became more brazen with each stop.

Under President Donald Trump, immigration agents have operated without typical public accountability. Many agents wear masks. Incident reports are largely hidden from the public.

“We are in a completely uncharted world now with these masked agents,” said John Roth, who served as inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security under Presidents Obama and Trump.

“The first thing that you do when you give an agent a gun and a badge and the authority over American people is to make sure that they follow the Constitution, period,” he said.

In this new film, we focus on the activity of five agents from the US-Mexico border whose identities we’ve been able to confirm.

We are not aware of any disciplinary action taken against these agents. DHS did not respond to requests for comment; the individual agents either declined to comment or didn’t respond to calls or emails.

We showed the incidents to Roth and Steve Bunnell, former DHS general counsel. Both have testified before Congress raising the alarm about what they see as a dismantling of the department’s accountability and credibility. Roth called the incidents “difficult to watch.”

“There are sort of two essential components of DHS and law enforcement generally being effective, and that’s trust and credibility,” Bunnell said. “And they have lost those things to the extent they had them.”

Now, in Donald Trump’s second term, private prison companies are raking in hundreds of millions of government dollars, with Geo Group and CoreCivic both topping more than $2 billion in total revenue in 2025. They’ve even re-opened facilities that were closed years ago over abuse accusations.

Watch our latest video to learn more about the private prisons at the center of Trump’s mass deportation industrial complex.

The U.S. has provided billions of dollars worth of military aid to Israel over the years. In the first few months of the Trump Administration, nearly $12 billion in major weapon sales to Israel were approved with deliveries scheduled to take years to complete. However, human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have said that U.S.-made weapons have been used in Gaza in ways that have likely violated international law.

Read the full investigative report from our partners at Bellingcat.

Watch the video analysis from Evident Media and Bellingcat and read the full investigation on Bellingcat’s website.

“Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question” combines rare on-the-ground access in Iran with innovative open-source analysis, in partnership with PBS Frontline, The Washington Post, Bellingcat, and Evident Media.

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A border patrol unit traveled over 300 miles to carry out sweeping arrests and deportations in Bakersfield, California. An investigation from Evident Media, CalMatters, and Bellingcat reveals the truth behind claims of a targeted operation and shows how warrantless Homeland Security raids could impact two-thirds of the nation.