InvestigationImmigration, Justice Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Allowing soldiers to patrol border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptDecember 17, 2021
InvestigationImmigration, Justice Texas Troopers Opened Fire From a Helicopter in 2012. Families Are Still Fighting to Hold Them Accountable. A state police marksman unloaded 19 bullets into a speeding pickup, killing two men. Now, depositions unearth startling new details about what happened. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptNovember 29, 2021
InvestigationImmigration, Justice Secretive CBP Counterterrorism Teams Interrogated Over 180,000 U.S. Citizens Over Two-Year Period Records from an ongoing FOIA lawsuit shed new light on the operations of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptSeptember 7, 2021
InvestigationImmigration, Justice The El Paso Experiment A public defender's lonely fight against family separation. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptNovember 1, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Immigration, World Exporting the Virus How Trump’s Deportation Flights Are Putting Latin America and the Caribbean at Risk. Melissa del Bosque & Isabel MacdonaldThe InterceptJune 26, 2020
InvestigationEnvironment, Immigration, Politics Trump’s Border Wall Would Destroy Historic Gravesites in Texas The history of an outpost on the Underground Railroad could be lost. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptJanuary 21, 2019
InvestigationImmigration, Politics The Occupation In South Texas, border residents struggle to cope with the latest military surge. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptNovember 24, 2018
InvestigationEnvironment, Immigration, Politics A Border Wall Could Cause Deadly Flooding. Officials Plan to Build It Anyway Engineers have long concluded that a wall in the flood plain of Starr County, Texas, could be catastrophic. Melissa del BosqueTexas MonthlyNovember 7, 2018
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics Border Patrol Union Endorses Extremist Video The National Border Patrol Council is featured in a video that includes group linked to white nationalists. Melissa del BosqueThe InterceptOctober 23, 2018
InvestigationImmigration Checkpoint Nation Border agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior. Melissa del BosqueHarper's, The Texas ObserverSeptember 13, 2018