Justice Department Won’t Charge Border Patrol Agents Who Killed Native Man
No explanation was given to Raymond Mattia’s family, who said prosecutors violated new federal guidelines on victims’ rights.
Ryan Devereaux
Ryan Devereaux is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Tucson, Arizona, covering the intersections of politics, power, and justice in the American West. He was a lead reporter on The Intercept’s award-winning series the Drone Papers, and winner of the 2017 Online Journalism Award for best feature writing for a small newsroom. In 2020, Devereaux received the Deadline Club’s top prize for feature reporting for “Bodies in the Borderlands,” a yearlong investigation into the criminalization of humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert, and in 2023 he shared an Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting for his coverage of Arizona's illegal dumping of shipping containers as an ad hoc border barrier on protected public lands. He has reported extensively on the drug war in Mexico, the war on terror, and immigration enforcement. He is currently writing a book on the politics of predator management in the Northern Rockies. Prior to The Intercept, Devereaux worked at Guardian US covering policing in New York City.
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The War on Immigrants
Border Patrol Violating Court Order Against Inhumane Treatment of Migrants, Officials Say
In Arizona, migrants caged outdoors endure extreme temperatures, cardboard scraps for beds, and overflowing porta-potties.
Secretive Federal Agency’s Days of Killing Pets With Poison Bombs May Finally Be Ending
Banning the cyanide bombs — planted throughout the American West in service of the livestock industry — has been the Mansfield family’s mission.
The War on Immigrants
Texas State Police Purchased Israeli Phone-Tracking Software for “Border Emergency”
The software was licensed as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s troubled Operation Lone Star border crackdown.
Border Patrol Is Caging Migrants Outdoors During Deadly Arizona Heatwave
Photos taken by The Intercept show dozens of people trapped with little shade in a lethal desert.
Biden Fast-Tracked a Green Energy Mine in One of Earth’s Rarest Ecosystems. Arizona Locals Took It to Court.
Joe Biden approved the mine to extract minerals for green energy, but locals say it will threaten the biodiversity of the Patagonia Mountains.
Border Patrol Video of Killing Shows Native Man Had No Gun, Complied With Orders
Raymond Mattia’s family said the partial release of body camera footage “feels like a cheap attempt to justify what they did.”
The Feds Have Thousands of Stadium Lights on the Border. Switching Them On Would Devastate Desert Ecosystems.
The powerful lights mounted on the border wall threaten the dark skies that make southern Arizona a biodiversity hotspot.
The War on Immigrants
Desperate Families and Gun-Toting Vigilantes Converge in Arizona After Title 42 Ends
As President Joe Biden swaps one asylum crackdown for another, the border’s lethality endures.
An Insider's View of the Montana Legislature's Attacks on Trans Rep. Zooey Zephyr
The ACLU’s Keegan Medrano, a queer, Native advocate in Helena, said Zephyr’s expulsion was the culmination of months of attacks from Montana’s far right.