Floaters: Our Reflection in the Rio Grande
Migrant children are drowning at the border. Their deaths are met with indifference. Rescue workers call these bodies “floaters.”
The War on Immigrants
The Intercept has been reporting from the front lines and the borderlines — exposing the lies and the inhumanity of U.S. immigration enforcement agencies.
Border Patrol Violating Court Order Against Inhumane Treatment of Migrants, Officials Say
In Arizona, migrants caged outdoors endure extreme temperatures, cardboard scraps for beds, and overflowing porta-potties.
Texas State Police Purchased Israeli Phone-Tracking Software for “Border Emergency”
The software was licensed as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s troubled Operation Lone Star border crackdown.
ICE Disobeyed Biden’s Order to Drop Trump’s Blanket Deportation Policy
A third of ICE enforcement actions during Biden’s first year in office targeted people who posed no threat to public safety.
LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes
ICE uses LexisNexis to track people's cars, gather information on people, and make arrests for its deportation machine, according to a contract.
Desperate Families and Gun-Toting Vigilantes Converge in Arizona After Title 42 Ends
As President Joe Biden swaps one asylum crackdown for another, the border’s lethality endures.
Voices
Tragedy in Texas as Pandemic Border Policy Ends — and a Rush to Judgment
The hate-crime narrative that emerged after migrants were killed in Brownsville ignored details about history and life in the border town.
Ban on Property Sales to Citizens of China, Iran, and Others Is Cruising Through Texas Legislature
Whether the bill, which Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to sign, ends up as law or not, the discrimination is already stinging marginalized communities.
Hundreds Turn Out to Denounce Texas Republicans’ “Vigilante Death Squads Policy”
Residents blasted Rep. Matt Schaefer’s controversial bill in a hearing that stretched late into the night.
Texas GOP Wants Citizens to Stop Migrants. Critics Say It’s a “Vigilante Death Squads Policy.”
Republican lawmakers are making a bid to challenge the federal government’s monopoly on immigration enforcement at the Supreme Court.