Trump Officials Were Warned That Family Separations Would Traumatize Children
A former official from the Office of Refugee Resettlement warned that family separations had "significant potential for psychological injury to the child.”
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.
Immigrant Detainees Describe Abusive Conditions in “Guantánamo Bay for Asylum-Seekers”
The ACLU has filed a class-action lawsuit enumerating egregious conditions for immigrant detainees at a federal prison in Victorville, California.
A Family Faces an Impossible Choice: Reunite Child With Her Detained Mother or Undocumented Father?
Jhoseline was still in detention and likely to be deported, while Miguel could end up deported himself if he engaged with the system.
Reunited With Their Children, Immigrant Mothers Find Themselves in a Strange and Unforgiving Land
Many traumatized and disoriented immigrant detainees in South Texas are simply being dropped at bus stations by ICE — without food, water, or money.
ICE Detainee Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Spent 21 Days in Solitary Confinement, Then Took His Own Life
Efraín Romero de la Rosa's suicide was the second in 15 months by a detainee with a history of mental illness at a privately run ICE detention center.
ICE Has Conducted Hundreds of Raids in New York Since Trump Came to Power. Here’s What Those Operations Look Like.
The ICEWatch project is the culmination of years of work tracking ICE operations by the Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Despite Trump’s Asylum Crackdown, Migrants Fleeing Violence in El Salvador Still Plan for the U.S.
“When I look at what’s happening in El Salvador, I feel motivated to try again,” said one woman who has been caught trying to cross and been deported twice.
Chaos Prevails in Immigrant Detention Centers, With Children Under 5 Still Separated From Parents
The Intercept found a couple who remained separated from their daughters, ages 15 months and 4, suggesting other young children remain lost in the system.
Her 13-Year Old Son Is in America. She Is Stranded in Djibouti. What Can a Yemeni Mother Do?
Hundreds of Yemeni-Americans who can't get visas under Trump's travel ban have to decide if they will risk returning to a war zone. Many already have.
Film: How a Brutal Immigration Raid Devastated an American Small Town — and How It Bounced Back
Small-town America is immigrant America. That's the message of a documentary about Postville, Iowa, from Univision in partnership with The Intercept.