With this piece Perla Trevizo and I wanted to shed light on what really is new in Trump's immigration policies and what has been tried before. Data we obtained shows: Less than half of the ~8,200 ICE arrests from Jan. 20-Feb. 2 have criminal convictions. propublica.org/article/donald…

I wrote about what the US foreign aid freeze did to shelters along Mexico's border with the US. Reporting from Ciudad Juárez with photos by Mariceu Erthal. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Children and teenagers who cross the border alone have benefited from a $200M contract that allowed groups to represent them in immigration court. Those groups got a stop work order today. Story led by Teo Armus washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

From Tijuana to Reynosa, Mexican shelters are well-prepared for immigrants deported by Trump administration. But few show in the first month. "Our hope ended when Trump took office," says Matías Ezequiel Palabra covering both sides of border 👇🏼: palabranahj.org/archive/trumps…

It got understandably buried yesterday amid the Zelensky news, but thought our story yesterday was a pretty big deal - Trump's DHS is pushing for the IRS to produce taxpayer information to assist with deportations IRS officials are pointing to federal law saying taxpayer data

New: 14 families with children as young as one year old are being held in a reopened family detention center in Karnes County, TX, according to RAICES which provides services at the center. Some were in the US for 20 days and others up to 10 yrs. apnews.com/article/immigr…

New: I spoke to the families of 4 migrants - friends in Venezuela who then lived as roommates in Dallas. They say the 4 men were arrested on Thurs and sent to the Salvadoran mega-prison after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. Please read their stories: washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

Mercedes Yamarte thought her son & his 3 roommates were getting deported back to Venezuela. Then she saw his face in Bukele’s video advertising the arrival of 200+ migrants to El Salvador’s mega-prison. “I didn’t have words. I couldn’t speak.” Please read: washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

Tattoos used to justify deporting Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison last weekend: the Real Madrid logo, a clock with the time of a daughter's birth, the rainbow-colored​ ribbon of the autism acceptance movement.

DHS shuts down internal watchdog agencies that advocated for immigrants

NEW Judge says there's "no evidence" man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is a gang member, contrary to Trump administration claims. And the judge finds that the US can bring the man back. Waiting for a decision on appeal. LINK -->

We're tracking international student visa revocations across the country, follow our data updates here: insidehighered.com/news/global/in… for Inside Higher Ed

SCOOP: A State Dept. memo said the Trump administration produced no evidence of Tufts student engaging in anti-Semitism or support for terrorism. With a hearing for her case scheduled for tomorrow, the memo raises doubts about Trump admin claims Rumeysa Ozturk supported Hamas

New: The DOJ lawyer who first argued the Abrego Garcia case has been fired. Here's a look at Erez Reuveni's 15 years of government service, which included aggressive advocacy on behalf of Republican and Democratic administrations alike. wsj.com/politics/polic…

Post Reports: The Mistaken Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia —>

My book, UNTIL I FIND YOU, is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. My hope all along was that more people would learn what happened in Guatemala... pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported, after drunkenly firing shots in a Houston suburb. Now he’s being freed. 🎁-link wapo.st/40i4Ttt

“The difference about these raids of the last six weeks is that this is not principally an action against employers,” said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. “This is principally an action in pursuit of mass deportations.”

Huge news: $15 million for fellowships in newsrooms statewide! “Even in tight financial times, independent journalism, which underpins a citizen-informed democracy, is deserving of priority support." —Former Sen. Steve Glazer, journalism champion journalism.berkeley.edu/15-million-to-…

Thank you The Washington Post “Once it was mostly a taco website. Now it's covering L.A. ICE raids. L.A. Taco has become a formidable media outlet amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the resulting protests.” washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…