This September both feature stories take us deep into the desert. The Border Patrol has an inherent conflict of interest and Artist Michael Heizer sees Nevada’s rugged desert as an empty canvas. Digital issue now live. #KnowTheWest ow.ly/7UGj50TbSQB

If you missed it over the weekend, here’s my cover story about emergency services along the border with exclusive FOIA data and a 360 view of BP’s rescue machinery.

The Missing Migrant Program is meant to prevent deaths. Instead, it may be causing them. typeinvestigations.org/investigation/…

Gripping, infuriating investigation by tanvi on the conflict of interest at the heart of Border Patrol's rescue operations. Out now with High Country News: typeinvestigations.org/investigation/…

Two migrant youths from Guatemala crossed the border, and after trekking the AZ desert, called 911 for help. What happened next raises questions about the central contradictions in Border Patrol's program to rescue missing migrants. Type Investigations hcn.org/issues/56-9/th…

IVAT Centers awarded Olivia Gentile an Excellence in Media and Film Award for her investigative reporting Business Insider with Retro Report & Type Investigations on parental alienation. Read more: businessinsider.com/investigation-…

Hundreds of documents shared with High Country News and Type include incident reports and internal communications about rescues from across the Borderlands, detailing how migrants got into trouble or went missing after fleeing border agents. typeinvestigations.org/investigation/…

"There was nothing more he could do, the officer said. It was at that moment J.G. realized he would not be able to stay in the U.S." The amazing tanvi reveals the conflict of interest at the heart of Border Patrol's migrant rescue program: hcn.org/issues/56-9/th…

Through a FOIA request, I received a database showing how the Tucson sector BP triaged and ultimately addressed 911 calls believed to be from migrants that were redirected from local county dispatchers to CBP in 2022.

incredible reporting by tanvi for High Country News/Type Investigations - drawing on a multiplicity of sources (congressional reports, migrant & agent accounts, documents obtained via FOIA requests) to expose the failure of CPB's Missing Migrant Program hcn.org/issues/56-9/th…

A masterclass in reporting and storytelling from tanvi On the "fatal flaw" and deadly paradox of Border Patrol's migrant rescue program. Read it at High Country News hcn.org/issues/56-9/th…

For the newest Backstory, I talked to Tanvi Misra about her investigation on Border Patrol's Missing Migrant Program.

The fact that rescues and arrests coincide is not a bug, but a feature of the system to agents. “Yes, we do chase after our own patients,” Agundez said. “Hopefully, we get to them alive.” Great reporting by tanvi. hcn.org/issues/56-9/th…

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