Cora Currier

Cora Currier is an editor and reporter covering national security, immigration, human rights and other topics. She previously worked at ProPublica and the New Yorker, and was a lead researcher on several books of history and politics. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Pushing Out the Border: How the U.S. Is Waging a Global War on Migration

Cora Currier — Aug. 3

Journalist Todd Miller’s new book “Empire of Borders” tracks the way the U.S. has exported technology and training around the world.

Before Being Hacked, Border Surveillance Firm Lobbied to Downplay Security and Privacy Concerns About Its Technology

Cora Currier — Jul. 15

The CEO of Perceptics, which makes license plate readers, claimed that “CBP has none of the privacy concerns at the border that all agencies have inland.”

A Vast Archive Exposed the Secret History of Kidnapping and Assassination in Guatemala. Now It’s Under Threat.

Cora Currier — Jun. 8

The attack on the archive is part of “an aggressive rejection of human rights principles” from conservative Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales.

The War on ImmigrantsHow a California Community Helped Hundreds of Migrants the Border Patrol Dropped at a Greyhound Station

Cora Currier — Jun. 1

In San Bernardino, volunteers scrambled to provide the mostly Guatemalan arrivals with the help and logistical support that Border Patrol did not.

The War on ImmigrantsTrump Administration’s Limits on Asylum for Domestic Violence Put Guatemalan Women in Peril

Cora Currier, Monica Wise — November 2 2018

In June, Attorney General Jeff Sessions placed new limits on the ability of domestic violence victims to receive asylum, with dire consequences for Guatemalan women.

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