The War on Immigrants

A new Amnesty International report details a two-year-long attack on human rights defenders, attorneys, and journalists working along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez resisted efforts by Customs and Border Protection officials to limit her access to migrants detained in El Paso, Texas.

Few of us have fully considered what we would do if concentration camps were built and operated in our nation, by our government, on our watch, on our dime.

The Department of Homeland Security appears ready to vastly expand the Migrant Protection Protocols with mass video hearings held in tents presided over by distant judges.

I never thought the pattern of abuse and deceit that I saw at Serb-run prison camps in the 1990s would be relevant to America — but it is.

A government watchdog wants a full accounting for abuses against people detained by ICE — and how an internal whistleblower came to be ignored.

Booker asked Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham to convene a hearing in response to the findings of an ICIJ and Intercept investigation.

I complacently assumed that CBP’s horrendous treatment of migrants wouldn’t affect me directly, least of all in Austin, the city where I was born.

“I think he should apologize for the deliberate conflation and attack on these terms,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“That’s what I’ve waited so long to hear, that someone in a position of power would look at this information and say, ‘This is clearly wrong.’”