Ginger Thompson
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Past articles by Ginger:
Border Patrol Agent Calls Migrant Prison Camp a “Scene From a Zombie Apocalypse"
While he didn’t embrace the term concentration camp, he didn’t dispute it either. → Read More
What's It Like for an Immigrant Child to Experience Zero-Tolerance Policy?
Here's what happens when they land back where they left. → Read More
Salvadoran Girl Whose Cries Highlighted the Cruelty of Family Separation Policy Embraces New Life —
After she was separated from her mother at the border, 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid was recorded begging to make a phone call over the sobs of other children. A video shows how she and her mom are coping with their life in Texas. → Read More
Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border
Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. → Read More
Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed —
Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They’re protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration advocates say it’s zero tolerance by another name. → Read More
A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He’s 6. —
Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy. → Read More
Watch the 6-Year-Old Salvadoran Girl Heard on a Secret Recording Out of a Border Patrol Detention Facility Finally Being Reunited With Her Mom
“I’ll be the happiest woman in the world,” said Jimena’s mother, Cindy Madrid, as she prepared for the moment. “It’s been very painful to be apart.” → Read More
Zero Tolerance —
The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy called for the prosecution of all people who attempt to enter the country illegally, and has resulted in the separation of more than 2,300 migrant children from their parents since April. ProPublica is covering the ongoing developments. → Read More
For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, a Memorized Phone Number Proves a Lifeline
As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are. The 6-year-old girl heard asking to call her aunt on an audio recording from a detention facility this week has an advantage. → Read More
Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
An audio recording obtained by ProPublica adds real-life sounds of suffering. → Read More
Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an → Read More
DEA Operation Played Hidden Role in the Disappearance of Five Innocent Mexicans
The agency did nothing to investigate or help. → Read More
DEA Operation Played Hidden Role in the Disappearance of Five Innocent Mexicans —
The agency knew why the victims were kidnapped in 2010 by the Zetas drug cartel from a Holiday Inn in Mexico, but it did nothing to investigate or help. The victims’ friends and relatives now wonder why. → Read More
Top Democrats Demand Inquiry Into Deadly DEA-Led Operations —
Lawmakers cite a ProPublica investigation and an inspector general report that detail how teams of foreign police officers trained by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were linked to innocent lives lost in Mexico and Honduras. → Read More
Who Holds the DEA Accountable When Things Go Wrong?
The DEA has been criticized for its role in several high-profile foreign drug operations gone awry. → Read More
Who Holds the DEA Accountable When Its Missions Cost Lives?
In 2011, a DEA operation touched off a massacre in a Mexican town, yet the agency never investigated what went wrong. → Read More
How a U.S. drug enforcement operation got dozens of Mexican citizens killed
Who holds the DEA accountable when its missions cost lives? → Read More
How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it. → Read More
Trump Plan: Deport to Mexico Immigrants Crossing Border Illegally, Regardless of Nationality
The idea is part of a raft of immigration proposals signed by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly that are likely to spur international and legal challenges. → Read More
Mexican Human Rights Defenders Say They Are Target of Smear Campaign
On the eve of the release of a report investigating a student massacre in 2014, its authors and other human rights advocates fear an attempt to pre-empt the findings and discredit the work. → Read More