Sarah Cutler, Steve Eder and Robert Gebeloff, New York Times, Oct. 3, 2023 "Several months ago, as a federal judge worked through a docket of smuggling cases in the bustling border city of Laredo, Texas, three people were escorted into the courtroom. Because...
The Marshall Project "Despite controversies over border walls, separated families and the Muslim travel ban, immigrants are still striving for American citizenship. WE ARE WITNESSES: BECOMING AN AMERICAN tells their stories and the stories of those trying...
TribLIVE, July 31, 2016 - "Raymond Lahoud stood before a judge in a federal immigration court here, arguing why he needed his client's son inside the courtroom. Marco Davilla, an Ecuadorian immigrant, had been accused by his ex-wife of assaulting his...
María Ines Zamudio, Commercial Appeal, June 18, 2016 - "Wendy Sarai Palacios thought she'd struck a deal with someone she could trust — the U.S. government. She'd fearfully testify against the predatory smuggler who brought her into the country illegally...
"A Nogales teenager was simply walking down the street and not throwing rocks at U.S. Border Patrol agents the night he was shot and killed, a new witness says, contradicting the agency's initial statement." - Perla Trevizo, Arizona Daily Star,...
"Defense attorneys and public defenders across the country say Garcia's case illustrates what has become a troubling, systemic problem in the criminal justice system. They say defendants facing charges including murder, human smuggling, alien harboring...
"The 9th Circuit slammed the U.S. attorney in San Diego on Friday for deporting a possible witness who could have undermined an alien-smuggling case. Border Patrol agents arrested Jonathan Leal-Del Carmen in 2010 with a group of suspected illegal migrants...