Sarah DeYoreo, who was fired from Morrison Child and Family Services, said that staff were being encouraged to act as an extension of law enforcement.
In San Bernardino, volunteers scrambled to provide the mostly Guatemalan arrivals with the help and logistical support that Border Patrol did not.
The builders of the private border wall near El Paso were aided by armed vigilantes who have been capturing and terrorizing migrants.
Locked for weeks or months in solitary cells, mentally ill and vulnerable detainees are plagued by anxiety, anger, depression, and suicidal impulses.
Ellen Gallagher's yearslong effort to draw attention to ICE's use of solitary confinement was met with a maze of bureaucratic indirection and indifference.
A Customs and Border Protection official confirmed that the agency had launched investigations of journalists and immigrant rights advocates on the border.
Between 25,000 and 49,000 people who were adopted by American parents as children live in fear of deportation because they never got citizenship.
As the federal littering trial of No More Deaths volunteer Scott Warren took place in Ajo, Arizona, volunteers recovered human remains in the desert nearby.
An HVAC repairman in Kansas didn’t tell his wife about a previous marriage. The Department of Justice tried to strip his citizenship for it — and failed.
U.S. border officials arrested a human rights advocate, denying her access to an attorney when she accompanied an asylum-seeker to a border crossing.
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