Tag Archives: Department of Homeland Security
Instead of Building Family-Friendly Jails for Migrants, We Should Just Stop Jailing Them
The processing centers are jails by another name, where men, women and children are kept in large group cells with no access to beds, full meals or even adequate drinking water.
While immigration politics play out on the national stage, El Paso is once again becoming a testing ground for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. As part...Read More
Border Patrol Calls Cops on Lawyers, Activists Trying to Attend ‘Stakeholder’ Meeting
Police asked civil rights attorneys and opponents of the border wall to leave a Border Patrol station in McAllen, where an invite-only border wall meeting was taking place.
Outside the McAllen Border Patrol station Wednesday morning, a group of about nine anti-border wall activists and civil rights attorneys attempted to attend a q...Read More
It’s Time to Decriminalize Immigration
Congress should repeal the law that allows for kids to be ripped away from parents and for migrants to be criminalized en masse at the border.
This week, the news has been dominated by horrifying scenes from the border of children being ripped apart from their parents who the federal government is crim...Read More
Fear and Loathing at the San Antonio Border Security Expo
Immigration officials say they no longer “distinguish between border security and interior enforcement” and aim to “push the borders out.”
If there was an overarching theme at a border security expo in San Antonio Wednesday, it was that the border is in crisis — and the border is everywhere. R...Read More
Trump’s Border Wall May Spark Another Epic Land Dispute
What many Americans don’t know is that the southwestern border already has at least 650 miles of fencing. Much of it is along the Texas-Mexico border, which i...Read More
The Next 60: Living at the Edge of Change
Less obvious was the border as a place, home to millions of people charting a future within the paradox that is the border—desperately poor but highly lucrati...Read More
Mohamed’s Fight
He’s a Texas Republican and an expert on fighting extremism. Why do conservatives hate him?
He’s a Texas Republican and an expert on fighting extremism who advises homeland security officials. Why do conservatives hate him?...Read More
Beyond the Border
In our four-part multimedia series, produced in collaboration with the Guardian, we explore how a rural South Texas county 70 miles from the border has b...Read More
DPS Goes International
Texas DPS has become the federal government’s newest partner in fighting the global war on drugs....Read More