“They Believed Anything but the Truth” — 14 Years in Guantánamo
Cora Currier
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Captured at the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi describes coming of age at Guantánamo in his memoir, “Don't Forget Us Here.”
Cora Currier
Cora Currier is a freelance editor in Los Angeles. A former story editor and reporter at The Intercept, she has written on war, surveillance, immigration, and other topics. She previously worked at ProPublica and the New Yorker, and her writing has appeared in Bookforum, the New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a co-founding editor of the feminist magazine Lux.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Letters From ICE Detainees Expose Desperate Prison Conditions Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Cora Currier
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The handwritten notes represent an archive of the Covid-19 crisis in Arizona detention centers, where hundreds of immigrants and staff have tested positive.
The War on Immigrants
As Coronavirus Surges in ICE Detention, a Message in the Skies Says “RELEASE”
Cora Currier
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An artistic intervention seeks to highlight places across the U.S. where immigrants and others are detained.
The War on Immigrants
Redirecting Asylum-Seekers From U.S. to Guatemala Was a Cruel Farce, Report Finds
Cora Currier
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Nearly 1,000 Hondurans and Salvadorans seeking asylum in the U.S. were sent to Guatemala instead, where they face threats similar to those they fled.
Immigration Detention Is Part of Mass Incarceration: The Case for Abolishing ICE and Everything Else
Cora Currier
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New books explore the racist history of immigration policy and chart a more humane path forward.
Filmmakers Sue to Shield Visitors to U.S. From Social Media Vetting
Cora Currier, Ryan Devereaux
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The lawsuit challenges U.S. visa registration policies that require disclosure of social media handles used over the past five years on 20 platforms.
The War on Immigrants
How an Occupy ICE Activist and DACA Recipient Was Deported for Tweeting
Ryan Devereaux, Cora Currier, Travis Mannon, Verónica G. Cárdenas
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An undocumented teenager protesting Trump’s deportation regime got deported by ICE. The FBI helped.
Climate Crimes
Hikers, Trump, and the Capitalist Conspiracy to Ruin Public Lands
Cora Currier
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An interview with Christopher Ketcham about his book “This Land” and the threats to 450 million federal acres.
Pushing Out the Border: How the U.S. Is Waging a Global War on Migration
Cora Currier
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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
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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.”