After some time off, I'm back to immigration reporting. Send tips, info to [email protected] or Signal: ujohnnyg.83

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.

Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Excellent feature by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social for the @texastribune.org

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

"'José' is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn’t know their anti-Latino history." @gustavoarellano.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com

Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.

As deaths mount, New Mexico’s border counties and state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it. by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...

As deaths continue to mount, New Mexico’s border counties & state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it. by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social‬ / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social‬ sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...

I spoke to teenagers about why kids are role playing as ICE agents, staging raids on “illegals” within the game, and the mass anti-ICE protests that have also broken out within the game www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...

After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

"[F]ederal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to [MS-13] as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes and reduced homicide rates." #USA #ElSalvador #Deportation #Incarceration

The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...

Last month, ICE announced that it had arrested 48 people in a sweep in New Mexico. But local & state officials, and immigrants-rights advocates, can’t get any information about who was arrested or where they are. What actually happened? My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

NEW: The DC Circuit has DENIED the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Boasberg's halt on the use of the Alien Enemies Act! The decision is 2-1, with Trump appointee Judge Walker dissenting on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the lawsuit should have been brought in Texas.

“‘Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than what has happened here,’ D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Millett said during a hearing at the court on Monday.”

After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decided it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for the mass shooter who in 2019 killed 23 people in a local Walmart and said he wanted “to shoot as many Mexicans as possible.” via @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/03/25/t...

Texas lawmakers have filed dozens of bills that could further cement the state’s role in immigration enforcement — long the sole responsibility of the federal government — should they become law. here's a primer on some of the proposals w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social --> t.co/mMUxY4HMik

ICE said 118 people were arrested during an operation Monday in Colony Ridge outside of Houston but only released information about one of the arrests. ICE has not responded to requests for a list of the names, ages and charges against those who were arrested. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/25/t...

The owners of a South Texas bakery were arrested and charged with harboring undocumented workers, a relatively rare incidence of federal agents pursuing business owners for allegedly employing undocumented immigrants. via @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...

In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.” "The border has been secured,” he declared. Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...

Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

TRAC is back. tracreports.org

UPDATE: Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd” www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...

ICE has updated the timestamp for many old enforcement action press releases, allowing them to top internet search results www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Here's the letter, which is also posted on the district's website

A south Texas school board warns parents it was informed Border Patrol agents may board school buses, question children about immigration status and detain or deport children via @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...

New @ujohnnyg.bsky.social: The Alice Independent School District in South Texas warned parents in a letter Wednesday that U.S. Border Patrol agents may be checking the immigration status of students on school buses traveling for extracurricular activities. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...

Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...

New: After teasing border security rollback, Texas plunges in deeper after spending $11 billion over the last four years during the Biden administration. w/ Jasper Scherer www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/t...

This minor court update wouldn't normally warrant its own story. But when the Texas AG blasts out a news release with bold claims and other local media just parrots them, we decided to give a little explainer: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/04/e...

"Some migrants arrested in Trump's immigration crackdown have been released back into the U.S. Space constraints and court orders have led ICE to release migrants on monitoring programs after they’re arrested" www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

New: Texas National Guard soldiers now have the authority to make immigration arrests and help detain and deport undocumented people under an agreement between the state and the Trump administration. "This is absolutely an unprecedented invocation of authority." www.texastribune.org/2025/02/03/t...

An El Paso police officer voted for Trump because he believed Trump was pro-police and would make everyday items affordable. Now he worries the feds could deport his father, an undocumented immigrant. From @ujohnnyg.bsky.social + Texas Tribune team: www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...

“A lot of fear going on”: Texas immigrant community on edge during Trump’s first weeks story with @alereports.bsky.social & @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...

ICE will no longer consider if "an alien is a victim of a crime...a positive discretionary factor" in determining whether to deport them, per new ICE memo leaked to me

On today's Your Call, we'll host the writer/director of the new @frontlinepbs.bsky.social "Trump's Comeback." Then the latest on Trump's immigration crackdown w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social & @wendyfry.bsky.social. Tune in or stream live 10am PT! @kalwradio.bsky.social www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

An immigrant faces deportation after a routine traffic stop in Texas, sparking more fear, story by @serranoalej.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/29/t...

New: An undocumented Texan is facing deportation after he and his wife got pulled over last week in Lubbock for an alleged traffic violation while they were out buying baby formula. The officer called ICE. www.texastribune.org/2025/01/29/t...

Department of Justice cuts off federally funded legal aid to detained immigrants www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/t...

Unpublished State Department statistics show the indefinite US Refugee Admissions Program pause stranded more than 22,000 refugees approved for departure to the US an internal USCIS directive last week instructed officials to stop renewing Afghan parole www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-m...

U.S. Senate investigation of migrant child’s death finds poor medical care at border protection facilities www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/t...

Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders “We now know that Navajo people and enrolled members of other tribes are being detained in Phoenix and other cities by ICE" report by @diinsilversmith.bsky.social azmirror.com/2025/01/24/r...

Some local officials in Texas cheer Trump’s immigration crackdown, others sound cautious note The Trump administration this week threatened local officials with prosecution if they interfere with its planned immigration crackdown. w/ @serranoalej.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/t...

"The Border Patrol also has a controversial history in El Paso of immigration enforcement actions around Bowie High School... A 1992 lawsuit ... challenged the Border Patrol’s actions, saying stops were made solely because people looked Hispanic." elpasomatters.org/2025/01/21/b...

New: Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/21/t...

The heavily redacted document confirms the UA was working closely with the CIA, monitoring the Brown Berets and Students for a Democratic Society “We were cautious during protests and demonstrations, and we’d be joking, ‘Oh watch out or they’ll open a file on you.’ And I guess it was true.”

Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments www.texastribune.org/2025/01/21/t...

2 of the country's biggest meatpackers will pay a combined $8 million after Department of Labor found they relied for years on migrant children to work in their slaughterhouses under a settlement announced this week, most of which will help children www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

NYC Mayor Adams unveiled a FY26 budget w/ $2 billion less for asylum seeker services than originally projected amid 28 straight weeks of declines in its census of asylum seekers NYC Independent Budget Office reported this month the admin had been overstating projected migrant costs