Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group
Three months after her appointment as chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost posted in the “I’m 10-15” Facebook group.
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.
From the Mediterranean to Mexico, Capt. Pia Klemp Believes Rescuing Refugees Is Worth Facing Prison Time
If governments are criminalizing people who “show basic human decency, then I think that shows that we’re doing something very right.”
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With Record Numbers of Displaced People, Deterrence Policies to Stop Their Movement Are Mass Murder
More of the planet is becoming unlivable. A refusal to open borders, or at least make them more porous, will be unconscionable.
Border Patrol Agents Tried to Delete Racist and Obscene Facebook Posts. We Archived Them.
Border Patrol agents quickly began deleting racist and violent posts after the existence of their private Facebook group was reported.
As Trump Announces Mass Immigration Raid, Documents Show How ICE Uses Arrest Quotas
In a past mass raid, an ICE official wrote that his office was “required to have 240 targets.”
Amnesty International Condemns U.S. Attacks on Border Journalists and Human Rights Defenders
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 and Other Democrats Reject "Staged" Tour of Migrant Detention Facilities
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez resisted efforts by Customs and Border Protection officials to limit her access to migrants detained in El Paso, Texas.
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History Has Taught Us That Concentration Camps Should Be Liberated. We Can’t Wait Until 2020.
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 Trump Administration Is Planning Mass Video Proceedings for Immigrants in Tents on the Border
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.
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What the Concentration Camps of Bosnia Can Teach Us About the Abuse of Immigrants on the U.S. Border
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.