The War on Immigrants
How the Trump Administration Is Manufacturing a New Border Crisis
As Trump rails against migrant caravan, ICE has cut all assistance to immigrant families released from detention, adding to narrative of crisis on the border.
Ryan Devereaux
Ryan Devereaux is an award-winning investigative journalist and Type Media Center fellow covering immigration enforcement, national security and the environment.
He was a lead reporter on The Intercept’s award-winning series “The Drone Papers,” and winner of the 2017 Online Journalism Award for best feature writing for a small newsroom. In 2020, Devereaux received the Deadline Club’s top prize for feature reporting for “Bodies in the Borderlands,” a yearlong investigation into the criminalization of humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert, and in 2023 he shared an Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting for his coverage of Arizona’s illegal dumping of shipping containers as an ad hoc border barrier on protected public lands. He has reported extensively on the drug war in Mexico, the war on terror, and the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to The Intercept, Devereaux worked at The Guardian US covering policing in New York City.
His forthcoming book, “The Hunt: A True Story of Resurrection and Retribution in the West,” from Avid Reader Press, will be published in 2026. He is based in Tucson, Arizona.
He was a lead reporter on The Intercept’s award-winning series “The Drone Papers,” and winner of the 2017 Online Journalism Award for best feature writing for a small newsroom. In 2020, Devereaux received the Deadline Club’s top prize for feature reporting for “Bodies in the Borderlands,” a yearlong investigation into the criminalization of humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert, and in 2023 he shared an Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting for his coverage of Arizona’s illegal dumping of shipping containers as an ad hoc border barrier on protected public lands. He has reported extensively on the drug war in Mexico, the war on terror, and the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to The Intercept, Devereaux worked at The Guardian US covering policing in New York City.
His forthcoming book, “The Hunt: A True Story of Resurrection and Retribution in the West,” from Avid Reader Press, will be published in 2026. He is based in Tucson, Arizona.
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New Documents Bolster Case that Border Patrol Retaliated Against Humanitarian Group
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The Trump Administration Carried Out Thousands More Family Separations Than Previously Acknowledged
An Amnesty International report describes an orchestrated campaign by the Trump administration to seek “the full dismantling of the U.S. asylum system.”
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Justice Department Attempts to Suppress Evidence That the Border Patrol Targeted Humanitarian Volunteers
Text messages between Border Patrol agents and wildlife officials bolster claims that No More Deaths volunteers in Arizona were targeted for prosecution.
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Trump Officials Were Warned That Family Separations Would Traumatize Children
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The ICEWatch project is the culmination of years of work tracking ICE operations by the Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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