Melissa del Bosque is a staff reporter with the Texas Observer. Since 1998, she has covered the U.S.-Mexico border reporting on border militarization, immigration, the plight of unaccompanied migrant children, and asylum seekers. Her work has been featured on Democracy Now!, PBS, Al Jazeera, BBC, and NPR, as well as in The Guardian and the Mexico City-based Nexos magazine. Del Bosque is a fellow at The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.