melissa del bosque

Recent Work

Secretive CBP Counterterrorism Teams Interrogated Over 180,000 U.S. Citizens Over Two-Year Period
Records from an ongoing FOIA lawsuit shed new light on the operations of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams.
By Melissa del Bosque, a Lanan reporting fellow at Type Investigations, for The Intercept.

History Shows That a Planned Wall Along Texas Border Could Cause Flooding, Ecological Disaster
While residents and officials are concerned about ignoring the lessons from Nogales, the federal government is forging ahead with its plans to start construction in September of this year.
Melissa del Bosque on WNYC’s The Takeaway.

Trump’s Border Wall Would Destroy Historic Gravesites in Texas
The history of an outpost on the Underground Railroad could be lost. By Melissa del Bosque in the Intercept.

Homeland Insecurity
How to run drugs, smuggle migrants, and get away with it at America’s biggest law enforcement agency.

Death on Sevenmile Road
As border security build-up in Texas intensified, two brothers paid a smuggler to bring them to the United States. Only one lived to tell their story.

Into the Wilderness
To comply with US immigration law, Exelina Hernandez would have to risk her life.

“This Is Our Home”
With migrants streaming through south Texas, landowners are caught between protecting their property and saving lives.

Welcome to Kochworld
To see how the Koch brothers’ free-market industry utopia operates, look no further than Corpus Christi, Texas, where the billionaires own two oil refineries.

The Deadliest Place in Mexico
Who’s killing the people of the Juarez Valley? Hint: It’s not just the drug cartels.

Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty
The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel’s most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño.