From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

In today's Weekly Dispatch, @ehellerstein.bsky.social reflects on how the Fruitvale Día de los Muertos festival brought together thousands to honor their loved ones and celebrate heritage and culture—even amid fears of immigration enforcement. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/w...

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

In this week's Weekly Dispatch, @ehellerstein.bsky.social shares a postmortem on last week’s events—not only on what unfolded, but on what local orgs learned during what became, in effect, a dress rehearsal for the immigration crackdown that may still come. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/s...

Two months ago, U.S. Border Patrol posted a hype video, featuring the “banned” version of Michael Jackson’s 1995 song “They Don’t Care About Us,” including its infamous antisemitic slurs. While Border Patrol remained silent, antisemitic accounts on Twitter celebrated the government’s post.

Loving ML's immigration reporting in general, but this one hit me hard bc it is the exact story of my family. Also from present-day Ukraine, immigrated to the US just before a 1920 pogrom wiped out their town, & the remaining Jews were later killed in the Holocaust missionlocal.org/2025/10/the-...

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

New - Fraudsters are posing as immigration attorneys & staging fake virtual court hearings to steal from ppl seeking legal help. Scammers advertise on TikTok to appear legit—stealing real lawyers’ names & bar numbers. Victims have lost thousands & risk deportation www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/h...

In today's Weekly Dispatch, @ehellerstein.bsky.social reports on the rise in scams targeting immigrants seeking legal help—where fraudsters pose as legitimate attorneys, make false promises and charge for services that may never be delivered. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/h...

ICYMI: This week's newsletter is all about @eltimpano.bsky.social's collab with Latino USA. It's the story of Pedro, a farmworker who survived Half Moon Bay's mass shooting. He lost his brother in the attack and was shot 5 times. Then he discovered the accordion. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/w...

I've been doing longform writing for so long, it was a fun experience to take myself out of my comfort zone with a longform radio piece. I'm excited about the next edition of E's radio - a longform podcast about my reporting in Ukraine. Hopefully out next month! www.latinousa.org/2025/10/03/m...

Thrilled to share the long-awaited collab btw @eltimpano.bsky.social + Latino USA! I spent months reporting on an accordion class helping the farmworker survivors of the Half Moon Bay shooting heal from their trauma. It's a piece abt grief, love, healing & culture. www.latinousa.org/2025/10/03/m...

Now available in your podcast feeds — @ehellerstein.bsky.social's Latino USA episode on an unconventional music program in Half Moon Bay that's helping farmworkers heal from trauma through the accordion. Ep will also air live on @kqednews.kqed.org tonight at 6 pm! www.latinousa.org/2025/10/03/m...

After a recent SCOUTS ruling lifting limits on ICE sweeps in LA & ongoing raids, Gov. Newsom signed a suite of bills to strengthen immigrant protections. Bay Area leaders also unveiled a new regional effort to financially support immigrants impacted by enforcement: www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/a...

In today's Weekly Dispatch, @ehellerstein.bsky.social reports on how increased immigration enforcement is preventing immigrant families from accessing necessary health care, triggering delays, mental health crises, and worsened outcomes. 👇 www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/h...

"We’re seeing a quarantine effect, but not from a virus. Families are isolating out of fear, raids, surveillance, and discrimination.” My latest on health care in California in the shadow of ICE. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/h...

My latest is a deep dive into a recent ruling narrowing the grounds for domestic violence survivors to obtain asylum. It's also abt the historical exclusion of women from the asylum framework, and the long fight over how gender fits into a system created decades ago www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/a...

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

In honor of #LaborDay, we've been looking into trades where immigrant labor is essential. @ehellerstein.bsky.social's last newsletter detailed how CA fast food workers are striking for safer conditions and calling on employers to protect them from ICE raids. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/c...

This was exactly my recent experience in Kyiv! Everything felt enunciated: conversation, culture, ideas, even life. After I left, there was something I missed about being in this constant state of enunciation. Everything felt flat by comparison

The "Big Beautiful Bill" will strip food stamps from roughly ~74,000 refugees, asylees & other immigrants w humanitarian protections in CA. In the East Bay, some ppl are withdrawing CalFresh applications over concerns abt their data being shared w ICE. My latest: www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/s...

Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️

My latest digs into into “immigration trauma.” Migration, family separation & daily threats of detention are inflicting chronic stress on immigrant communities—especially kids—showing up emotionally & physically in anxiety & toxic stress that can stunt development www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/w...

Our latest newsletter by @ehellerstein.bsky.social dives into immigration trauma and how migration, detention and separation shape families' mental health. It also highlights powerful cultural and arts-based healing work happening with farmworkers in Half Moon Bay. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/w...

I've been having a tough time readjusting back to CA after Ukraine. It's felt impossible to integrate my time there into my daily life here. I figured I was just depressed or struggling to process the intensity of what I experienced. But I think I've found a diff culprit: Bay Area gloom summer

Hirsch’s Generation of Postmemory was a strangely cathartic and incredibly formative text for me. When she has something to say, I listen

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

"Six years ago, American Jewish institutions had the strength and clarity to call out a genocide... They used the language of the Holocaust to refer to a genocide against another group of people. Today, legacy Jewish institutions refuse to use the same language." www.jta.org/2025/07/25/i...

If you know me, you know I love reading, talking & writing (when I can!) abt history, memory & identity. It was such a pleasure to write this piece for @eltimpano.bsky.social abt how the memory of Japanese American incarceration fueled last week's ICE protest in CA www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/h...

“The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 1,000 Palestinians have now been killed by Israeli forces while seeking food since the start of a new aid distribution system launched by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in late May.” www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/g...

A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.

Venezuelans leaving El Salvador after Trump sent them to the mega prison without due process: “4 months with no communication… no water… psychological torture… they’d hit us for breakfast, they’d hit us for lunch, they’d hit us for dinner…”

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

I'm baaack! And the Weekly Dispatch is back too. This week's edition: www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/t...

NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

After weeks reporting in Ukraine as a fellow w/ the International Women's Media Foundation, I am finally BACK in California & back on the immigration beat. I had a life-changing time in Ukraine but I'm also so happy to be home covering the most important story in the US.

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica

Not sure if most people realize that there are no release dates at CECOT. All detentions are indefinite

Thanks to a longtime friend and colleague Adolfo Guzman Lopez from LAist for this excellent coverage. laist.com/news/los-ang...

Trump drops a Shylock in a speech and crickets

Thinking of all my colleagues in Kyiv. My nervous system is still calming down after just two weeks in Ukraine and two bad attacks. Now it feels like a blessing to go to sleep without worrying about getting bombed. But they live this reality all day, every day.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

🇺🇦 The reporting trip of a LIFETIME. Grateful to everyone who supported my crazy dream of traveling halfway around the world to my ancestral shtetl in the middle of a warzone. It was worth every air raid alert, drone attack, night spent in the bomb shelter. in awe of the Ukrainian ppl & journalists

"Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths" - every couple of weeks I think about how this happened between 2020 and 2022 and just...never really made or stayed in the news. english.elpais.com/internationa...

Our latest Weekly Dispatch newsletter by @ehellerstein.bsky.social dives into a proposed tax on remittances, and how it could deal a major blow to Latin American economies and the loved ones of many immigrant communities in the U.S. www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/p...

Hi everyone: I’m on leave for the next month! I’m traveling to the other side of the world for a reporting fellowship. I’ll be tracing a family history that has deeply influenced my life & why I care about the issues I cover. I’m beyond excited and can’t wait to share what I learn soon.

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com