Year in Review 2019
A Deadly Border, Cruelty in Detention — and How the Government Is Trying to Cover It Up: The Intercept’s 2019 Immigration Coverage
A look back at The Intercept’s must-read immigration stories from 2019.
Justice
Immigration Detention Is Part of Mass Incarceration: The Case for Abolishing ICE and Everything Else
New books explore the racist history of immigration policy and chart a more humane path forward.
Mike Bloomberg Exploited Prison Labor to Make 2020 Presidential Campaign Phone Calls
The Bloomberg campaign said it ended the arrangement after learning of the prison call centers from an Intercept inquiry.
Year in Review 2019
The State of the Death Penalty, Bad Policing, and Backsliding on Roe: The Intercept's 2019 Justice Coverage
A look back at The Intercept’s must-read justice stories from 2019.
Voices
Don’t Forget That Saudi Arabia Is Imprisoning and Torturing Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul
Loujain al-Hathloul fought for women to be able to drive in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom arrested her and is torturing her in a dark dungeon in Riyadh.
The War on Immigrants
How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants
ICE emails provide a rare inside look at the agency’s use of Facebook and commercial data brokers to track down an immigrant in California.
Voices
The Inspector General's Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude: Not Only for the FBI but Also the U.S. Media
The massive spying improprieties on the part of the FBI is as much a media scandal as it is a scandal for the agency and its leaders.
Voices
How the Prosecution of Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists Foretold Today's Criminalization of Dissent
A new documentary “The Animal People” tells the story of the SHAC 7, who were sentenced to prison on terrorism charges over their protest activity.
The War on Immigrants
Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
Border Patrol agents have arrested 71 people at the Spokane bus depot this year, part of a nationwide increase in immigration enforcement on Greyhound buses.
The War on Immigrants
The Government Has Taken At Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially Ended
Border Patrol agents, untrained in child welfare, decide that some parents are unfit to stay with their children based on brief interactions in detention.