Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
Published by the Los Angeles Times on September 20, 2023.
A narrative from Eagle Pass, Texas, a border city at the heart of the state government’s “Operation Lone Star.”
Published by USA Today on November 2. 2022.
Many migrants bused to New York from the border “step onto the buses with the promise of a new life in a new city and step off instantly homeless.”
Published by the New York Times on October 12, 2022.
Investigates a September 27, 2022 incident in which twin brothers, one the warden of a jail that has housed detained immigrants, shot at a group of migrants in Hudspeth County, Texas, killing one.
Published by the Intercept on October 12, 2022.
A report from Kinney County, Texas, along the border between Del Rio and Eagle Pass, where local leadership enthusiastically backs the Texas state government’s anti-migrant measures.
Published by the Texas Tribune on September 28, 2022.
A look at the data questions the results of the Texas state government’s border crackdown.
Published by the Washington Post on September 7, 2022.
A story citing many migrants and aid workers finds medium-term shelter among the most acute needs for the nearly 10,000 migrants whom Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused to Washington, DC since March.
Published by the Dallas Morning News on September 1, 2022.
The Texas state government’s controversial border security deployment.
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 26 de agosto de 2022.
Venezuelan migrants without U.S. support connections are living in shelters after boarding buses to Washington, DC funded by Texas’s Republican governor.
Published by the New Yorker on August 2, 2022.
A profile of the South Texas Human Rights Center, which leaves water and helps identify remains of missing migrants in Falfurrias, Texas, and the Center’s director, Eddie Canales.
Published by the Los Angeles Times on May 13, 2022.
“Patriots for America,” a conservative Christian militia, is intercepting migrant children in mid-Texas while Border Patrol and local authorities look on.
Published by ProPublica, the Texas Tribune, and the Marshall Project on April 27, 2022.
Finds seven examples in which Texas’s state government has been less-than-forthcoming, to say the least, about the results of Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) state border crackdown.
Published by the New Yorker on April 26, 2022.
National Guardsmen assigned to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) “Operation Lone Star” are seeking to exercise a new federal right to form a union.
Published by Propublica, the Texas Tribune, and the Marshall Project on April 18, 2022.
A look back at 17 years of Texas governors’ border security operations, usually launched in the run-up to elections, none of which appears to have had any lasting impact on security or migration.
Published by the Houston Chronicle on April 14, 2022.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “disaster” declaration at the border has allowed the state to engage in contracts without a formal solicitation process.
Published by the Texas Tribune on April 4, 2022.
A thorough takedown of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R)’s “Operation Lone Star,” in which state police arrested over 7,200 migrants, often on “trespassing” charges, in seven months.
Published by Texas Monthly on April 4, 2022.
“Patriots for America,” a heavily armed far-right militia group, has been patrolling the border with the support, or at least the toleration, of authorities in Kinney County, Texas.
Published by the San Antonio Express-News on March 27, 2022.
CBP plans to build up to 86 miles of new levee wall along the border in south Texas. Community members respond.
Published by ProPublica on March 21, 2022.
An investigation finds that Texas’s state government has been using dubious statistics to inflate results from its costly border deployment.
Published by the Texas Tribune on March 16, 2022.
A new investigation of Texas’s troubled National Guard border deployment finds that some Guardsmen have been ordered to station themselves outside some of the wealthiest private ranches in south Texas, where they have little to do.
Published by The Intercept on February 2, 2022.
An overview of human rights issues, morale problems, and mission questions surrounding the Texas state government’s large National Guard deployment.
Published by Military Times and the Texas Tribune on February 1, 2022.
A thorough look at problems with Texas’s state National Guard deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border under what Gov. Greg Abbott (R) calls “Operation Lone Star.”
