PW Border Crisis Series

War on humanity: Inside the refugee camps of Ciudad Juárez, Part Two

August 6, 2019 By Al Neal

Regardless of the Trump administration and its vicious migration deterrents, each family here wanted nothing more than a shot at the American Dream, shattered though it may be.

War on humanity: Inside the refugee camps of Ciudad Juárez

August 2, 2019 By Al Neal

"As the dust kicked up by our big trucks settled, we began to see the faces of small children and their parents peering out the broken windows."

‘It’s nothing but intimidation tactics’: On the border in El Paso, Texas

July 30, 2019 By Al Neal

During daylight hours, the sprawling chain-link fence and razor-wired concrete walls of the detention center’s campus can be seen pushing up right along family farms and cattle ranches.

On the border in Laredo, ‘No one seems to remember the history’

July 24, 2019 By Al Neal

This isn’t an issue about a few bad apples in the CBP; it’s the whole damn system—the Facebook screenshots prove it, too.

‘You a U.S. citizen?’: Traveling under the watchful eye of the Border Patrol

July 22, 2019 By Al Neal

"I wasn’t crossing the border back into the United States, but, it sure as hell felt like I was a stranger in my land."