David Noriega
The US Admitted a Group of Russians at the Border Under Secret Deal With Mexico
The opaque agreement offered to the Russian asylum seekers is highly unusual.
Ukrainians Are Getting Across the US-Mexico Border. But Russians Fleeing Putin Are Not.
“This isn’t a system of humanitarian protection — it’s an arbitrary roll of the die.”
The Dark Truth About El Salvador’s Plummeting Murder Rate
President Nayib Bukele takes credit for a sharp drop in gang murders. But a mother’s search for her missing children tells a more complicated story.
Cops in Colombia Were Caught on Video Brutalizing This Protester. His Family Wants Answers.
“They left him as if he were—I won’t say an animal, because animals are sentient beings,” the family’s lawyer said. “As if he were a bag of trash that they just dumped outside the station.”
Coronavirus Isn't Stopping ICE from Keeping Detainees It Could Release
Even after months of pressure from legal advocates and medical experts to let go of detainees en masse to slow the spread of COVID-19, ICE has released only a small fraction.
How ICE Is Spreading Coronavirus Across the Country
“Social distancing goes out the window” when detainees are moved repeatedly, via bus or plane, between facilities.
'Paying Rent or Buying Food': Meet the People Fueling the Movement to Cancel Rent During the Pandemic
Rent strikes across the country aim to force politicians to take drastic action to forestall the looming housing crisis.
Homeless Families Are Taking Over Vacant Homes to Protect Themselves From Coronavirus
A group of families in Los Angeles are occupying vacant homes owned by Caltrans, the state transit authority, in the East LA neighborhood of El Sereno.
Inside an ICE Detention Center in a Coronavirus Outbreak: ‘We’re All Alone in Here. Things Are Getting Ugly.’
All José can do is watch what he can only assume is the virus moving through the room from bed to bed where he can’t help but live.
Inside ICE Detention During the Coronavirus Outbreak: 'This Will Be a Graveyard'
VICE News spoke to panicked immigrant detainees at ICE facilities across the country.
2 Coronavirus Cases Confirmed in New Jersey Prison with ICE Detainees
The Hudson County Corrections and Rehabilitation Center in New Jersey, which houses both county inmates and ICE detainees, has been placed on lockdown for two weeks.
Immigrants Are Now on Hunger Strike in 3 ICE Detention Centers Over Coronavirus Fears
“There’s a lot of fear, because if they bring in an infected person, we’re all going to get infected,” said the detainee, an asylum seeker from Central America who was apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.