News & Commentary about ICE and Border Patrol Abuses

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A CBP officer watches over travellers at an airport.

Feb 3, 2020

CBP Lied About Iranian-American Detentions, Leaked Memo Suggests

A line of Guatemalans arriving outside of the Guatemala City airport after having been deported from the US back to Guatemala.

Jan 28, 2020

Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a “Total Disaster”

Jan 14, 2020

The Trump Administration Weakens Standards for ICE Detention Facilities

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials stand at a border crossing facility on the U.S.-Canadian border

Jan 8, 2020

Iranian Americans Have Rights, Too — No Matter What's Happening Abroad

Dec 18, 2019

A Secret CBP Team is Targeting and Detaining Innocent Travelers. We’re Suing.

Dec 18, 2019

We’re Suing to Make Sure that CBP Can’t Keep Asylum Seekers from Their Lawyers

Nov 27, 2019

“If I Could Just Look at Her”

Nov 25, 2019

In Nicaragua, She Dodged Bullets. Now She's Stuck at the Border.

Nov 20, 2019

The U.S. Government Tracked, Detained, and Interrogated Journalists. We’re Suing on Their Behalf.

Hands hold a cellular telephone, with a security screening conveyor belt and other people in the background

Nov 13, 2019

Federal Court Rules That Border Officers Can’t Arbitrarily Search Our Electronic Devices