Published by The Intercept on November 1, 2020.
A public defender in El Paso ran up against the Trump administration’s early rollout of its family separation policy.
The El Paso Experiment: A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation
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‘We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls’: Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster
Published by Reveal on September 10, 2020.
ICE repeatedly rebuffed New Mexico state health officials’ offers to help control a worsening outbreak of COVID-19 at its Otero County Processing Center.
I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black.
Published by Politico on August 30, 2020.
Tianna Spears, a diplomat assigned to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, recounts the difficulty she consistently experienced re-entering the United States, as an African-American person, through CBP’s ports of entry.
Devastated by multiple tragedies, a border city seeks a bridge to the future
Published by The Boston Globe on August 1, 2020.
A look at El Paso and Ciudad Juárez a year after a gunman’s rampage at an El Paso Walmart.
Denied, Deported And Abandoned — Assault On U.S. Asylum
Published by Texas Public Radio on July 24, 2020.
An audio report and accompanying text, reported from the Rio Grande Valley, El Paso, and Mexico City, about the impact of the Trump administration’s virtual ending of the right to asylum at the border during the pandemic.