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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.