House GOP Spends First Hearing on the Border Casting Joe Biden as an International Crime Boss
The new Republican majority delivered few surprises and lots of paranoid rhetoric on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
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.
Mexico Arrested El Chapo's Son Before International Summit: “Was It a Gift to Biden?”
With Joe Biden making a historic visit to Mexico, Washington’s fixation on immigration overshadows everything else.
Voices
Biden’s Border Plan Drapes Trump Policies in Liberal Rhetoric
The U.S. border regime is cruel whether it is enforced by a president spewing racist slurs or one appealing to “safe and orderly processing."
Boxed In on the Border
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Agrees to Remove Illegal Border Wall
After being shut down by local protesters, Ducey told a federal judge he would remove the shipping container wall.
Was the Killing of a Migrant by a Former ICE Warden a Hate Crime or a Terrible Accident?
At Fivemile Tank, a watering hole in the bleak desert of West Texas, two men pulled up in a truck. One aimed a gun into the brush.
The Public Has Never Seen the U.S. Government Force-Feed Someone — Until Now
In an exclusive video, a hunger striker is force-fed in ICE detention — lifting the veil of secrecy on a practice condemned by medical ethicists.
Boxed In on the Border
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Defies Biden With Border Wall Made of Shipping Containers
The Biden administration remains silent as the Republican governor brazenly builds an ad hoc wall on protected lands.
The Texas Border County at the Center of a Dangerous Right-Wing Experiment
Officials in rural Kinney County, Texas, are pushing Gov. Greg Abbott to take ever more extreme action against migrants and asylum-seekers.
Texas Jail Warden Charged With Killing Migrant Was Previously Accused of Serious Abuses
Mike Sheppard, who ran a privately operated ICE jail, oversaw alleged abuses and hate crimes so severe that a federal prosecutor involved the FBI.
Ron DeSantis Chartered Planes From GOP-Allied Donor to Fly Migrants to Martha's Vineyard
Recipients of the firm’s donations include the appropriations chief responsible for funding Florida’s migrant relocation program.