NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...

an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.

the full 41 minute video of our @nprfreshair.bsky.social conversation about Trump's immigration crackdown is now online. you can watch it here. thank you again to the great Tonya Mosley for having me. youtu.be/nzRhNM2FedE?...

thanks for the warm welcome back to MSNBC. this is coming home. ❤️

EXCLUSIVE EXTENDED INTERVIEW: “I see my reflection in their pain, because it’s my own,” Narciso Barranco, the father of three Marines violently detained while landscaping, told me about the men he met in ICE detention for my first assignment as MSNBC senior national and political correspondent.

MSNBC has made a major hire for its news team, tapping Jacob Soboroff as senior national and political correspondent.

absolutely delighted and incredibly excited to return to the MSNBC family full time. the journalism. the people. our audience. ten years and one day after I first started, I’m coming home. so grateful. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

loved joining @nicollewallace.bsky.social so much on her pod, out today. way deeper and more personal conversation than we've ever had on TV. open.spotify.com/episode/1Wfi...

masked and armed agents are apprehending migrants every day as they attempt to do the right thing by showing up to immigration court. it was important for us to see what was happening for ourselves so you could too.

what I saw at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan this week was families with kids forced to walk through a gauntlet of masked and armed federal agents apprehending migrants the second they walk out of immigration court — left to wonder if they might be separated in the hallway next.

NBC News' @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports on ICE raids taking place in Manhattan where federal agents arrest people they say are in the country illegally, but are at the facility to attend mandatory immigration court hearings. WATCH his report here: www.instagram.com/reel/DMtKowc...

just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.

Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance by my friend @wdlopez.bsky.social is a critically important book that could not be more timely. preorder now: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Narciso Barranco, the father of 3 U.S. Marines, has been released from ICE custody on bond. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZWr...

“We organized peaceful protests, we came together at rallies, we took the Trump administration to court — all of this led to today’s retreat.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that immigration officers in southern California can't rely solely on someone's race or speaking Spanish to stop and detain people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE. We all must speak out against these chilling tactics.

these videos collected and verified by @nbcnews.com represent a small fraction of many following a pattern: heavily armed authorities, little visible ID, often wearing masks while detaining people, sometimes violently, then putting them into vehicles. www.nbcnews.com/specials/tru...

I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

I’m on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today with the great Tonya Mosley talking about the Trump administration’s immigration blitz in Los Angeles and the terror it is inflicting upon members of the community here.

every day Angelenos are mobilizing daily to push back against the Trump administration’s month-long immigration blitz in Los Angeles. we joined some of them early this morning ahead of the latest raids.

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

Hector Mata, 22, an American citizen, has been avoiding taking the bus, worried that immigration agents may target public transportation in Los Angeles. “I’m brown,” Mr. Mata said of federal agents, “and that’s all they need.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

Seth: Do you think that there’s a chance these protests will be effective? Me: No doubt about it.

1618 people have been taken by federal agents from the streets of L.A. over the last three weeks.

thank you Seth for such a lovely conversation about the city and people I love so much, Los Angeles and Angelenos. @latenightseth.bsky.social

tonight! lots of L.A. talk with Seth. 📷: Lloyd Bishop / NBC

"It doesn't make me love my country less. It makes me love it more because I see all these people standing up for people like my dad. And it's just what this country is all about, you know, coming together as a community, loving each other, and just helping each other."

House Oversight Ranking Member @robertgarcia.bsky.social calls detention of landscaper Narciso Barranco, father of three Marines, "disgraceful." "You can rest assured that the Oversight Committee is going to ensure that we hold these folks accountable." @aliciamenendez.bsky.social

“I want President Trump to know not all undocumented people are bad. Most of them are here, hardworking people who have raised children like myself, my brothers to love our country, to give back. We're willing to give the ultimate sacrifice. We swore an oath to the Constitution.”

“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

Alejandro Barranco, the Marine veteran, just left L.A.'s Metropolitan Detention Center where he was able to visit with his dad, Narciso, after he was detained over the weekend while working as a landscaper at IHOP. He'll join @nicollewallace.bsky.social and me on @msnbc.com at 5PMET. Tune in.

Spoke with Alejandro Barranco, Marine and son of Narciso, detained doing his landscaping job at an Orange County IHOP. Told me dad is "a kind person, hard working... a patriot. Loves this country. He always taught us the same thing. Just to love our country and always give back."

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

“He has always worked hard to put food on the table for us and my mom,” said Alejandro. “He was always careful and always did his taxes on time. He never caused any problems and he is known as a kind and helping person by everyone in our community.” santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

asked for an invite to VP Vance’s press conference here in L.A. today — his office said no.

VP Vance just called California Senator Alex Padilla “Jose Padilla” during his press conference in Los Angeles.

if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.

EXCLUSIVE: VP Vance may visit L.A. this week. Source with knowledge of federal law enforcement operations tells @nbcnews.com planning underway. Guard units federalized by Trump involved in planning for visit by high-level official, another said. Plans not final, subject to change.

federal agents at Dodger Stadium.

fact check.

The Department of Homeland Security is reversing last week’s pause on immigration enforcement actions at agricultural and hotel worksites, per my colleague Gabe Gutierrez.

Ross, the Marine I met at the protest on Saturday, and I met up today and he shared more about why he has protested Trump’s immigration crackdown daily — even after getting shot with less-lethal munitions. thank you @nicollewallace.bsky.social for having us. youtu.be/kWebOXEZJ6Y?...

Ross told me he enlisted in the Marines when he was 17 because he loves his country and to help his parents get a path to citizenship. protesting directly in front of Marines deployed by President Trump he told me "it makes me feel sad... a lot of Marines, they’re all Hispanic."

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

cannot thank you all enough for your support of our work this past week. proud to be on the streets and with the people of my hometown. and grateful to @msnbc.com and my colleagues in our L.A. bureau. we will keep going. see you out there.