Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
Published by the Texas Observer on November 21, 2022.
From the start of the Biden administration to August 2022, “U.S. authorities have reported at least 372 cases of family separation,” but Observer reporters found additional cases.
Published by palabra on August 11, 2022.
Dives deeply into the story of CBP’s improper targeting of U.S. advocates and journalists whom the agency believed had some involvement with 2018-19 migrant caravans through Mexico.
Published by NPR on July 5, 2022.
A conversation between radio host Terry Gross and Kelly Lytle Hernández, author of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands.
Published by the Guardian on June 14, 2022.
Former Border Patrol agent Jenn Budd, author of Against the Wall, writes about her harrowing experience in the agency and about the 2010 killing of migrant Anastasio Hernández-Rojas.
Published by the Intercept on March 22, 2022.
CBP documents and situation reports reveal extreme steps the agency, along with Mexican authorities, took to block “migrant caravan” participants’ attempt to seek asylum in early 2019.
Published by The Intercept on September 4, 2021.
New information, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, about the surprisingly robust activity of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams.
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.
Published by The Arizona Republic on October 28, 2020.
ICE deported back to Guatemala hundreds of people who tested positive for COVID-19.
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.
Published by Mother Jones on April 22, 2020.
A harrowing account, using testimonies from detained migrant women, of abuse amid COVID-19 fears in a privately run Louisiana ICE detention center.
Published by The New Yorker on February 21, 2020.
An investigation of the policymaking process within the Trump administration and the outsized role played by a 34-year-old hardliner in the White House.
Published by ProPublica on February 10, 2020.
A cohort of Border Patrol agents who served together in Douglas, Arizona in the 2000s rose to the topmost ranks and leaves a difficult legacy.
Published by ProPublica on January 31, 2020.
An investigation into the human consequences of giving broad discretionary powers to an agency with insufficient training and capacity.
Published by the Associated Press on January 19, 2020.
An investigation of the disorder that reigns in the Justice Department’s overwhelmed and untransparent immigration court system.
Published by The New Republic on January 7, 2020.
A look at continual growth in Homeland Security budgeting and capabilities in the pre-Trump years.
