1) 🧵After ~6 years @propublica.org @texastribune.org investigative unit, a new role for me! I’m proud of our impact, grateful for brilliant colleagues & thankful to ProPublica for 2 years on the Uvalde shooting, a rare opportunity, that culminated in this piece: www.propublica.org/article/uval...

We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract. The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible. You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. But the farmworker visa that allowed her to come to the U.S. legally ended up being a trap. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...

Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵

By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.

JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.

In one, the child says that her parents [in Guatemala] recently received a strange call from someone with the US government, telling them that he or she would be deported with a larger group of people. "Since my parents told me this news, I feel terrible," the declarant says.

The government has argued that the children are simply being reunited with their parents. But Sooknanan reads from a series of declarations that seem inconsistent with that claim.

Now that the county & school district released records about the Uvalde response, only DPS continues to fight that. The state police had more than 90 officers at the shooting, the biggest share other than CBP which is not part of the litigation, and also led the investigation into the response.

Late News: New Uvalde Records Reveal Campus Safety Concerns Were Raised Before Shooting @propublica.org @texastribune.org @lomikriel.bsky.social @alexnguyen.bsky.social @paulcobler.bsky.social

We took a collective lunch break today to protest @propublica.org management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system. Just this morning, a member of our Bargaining Committee was fired as a result of this system. Read more: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-d...

.@ProPublica and @texastribune.org sued for public records after the 2022 Uvalde shooting that killed 19 children, two teachers. After much legal wrangling three years later, the district released its records and the county following. Texas DPS continues to fight www.texastribune.org/2025/08/11/u...

As the Legislature gathers for a special session, this story is particularly relevant. Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Take Action on Flooding, by @lchurchill.bsky.social @lomikriel.bsky.social w/ @texastribune.org

NEW: Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding. By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org

28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

Texas lawmakers will shout about being tough on immigration but quietly refuse to pass laws requiring that employees verify workers are authorized to work in the US. Why? Because they know what it would do to an economy that relies on underpaid migrant workers. New, @lomikriel.bsky.social

“If you got serious about applying [E-Verify], you would create even worse problems” with labor shortages. “Do you want to go to a restaurant and use paper plates because no one will wash dishes?” Great story by @lomikriel.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/texa...

TX politicos built a brand against illegal immigration. Yet unlike other GOP states, they refuse mandating E-Verify for companies. Doing so, said an ex-GOP state rep, "would create even worse problems. Do you want to go to a restaurant & use paper plates?" www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Today's must-read is from @shadihamid.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com-- on why it's (finally) time to recognize Israel's actions in #Gaza as #genocide. Shadi Hamid is usually on the centrist, moderate side of most issues. He makes a centrist, moderate case: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“I think this close relationship with ICE makes everyone afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops and the next begins,” said the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s former ombudsman. With @texastribune.org

"The agency’s welfare mission appears to be undergoing a stark transformation as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportation numbers in his second term" a dozen current & fmr officials told @lomikriel.bsky.social & @micarosenberg.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/offi...

Fascinating story by @lomikriel.bsky.social and @micarosenberg.bsky.social. The kicker sums it up well: "I think this close relationship with ICE makes everyone afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops and the next begins."

Current and former officials tell @lomikriel.bsky.social & @micarosenberg.bsky.social that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompanied migrant children, is becoming an enforcement arm for the Trump administration's deportation machine. Read more at @propublica.org

"Everyone's afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops & the next begins," said the former ombudsman for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for immigrant kids, about its growing collaboration w/ ICE www.propublica.org/article/offi...

Solidarity with @propublicaguild.bsky.social colleagues. News organizations that tout ideals of fairness, transparency and holding power accountable should not be surprised when their employees demand those values in their workplace.

Transparency should be something we can all agree is important. We are asking @propublica management to stop denying colleagues their right to a shop steward in meetings that can lead to discipline.

The attorney general is making it easier for prosecutors to seize reporters' records. She says DOJ "will not tolerate unauthorized disclosures that undermine President Trump's policies," which she compares to treason.

I have a new article out today on Trump's immigration policies 100 days in and will really appreciate if everyone can hang in there while I post about it for the next week+ We put a lot into it so I hope it will be helpful: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

New: Texas is one step closer to studying the impact of immigration on the state for the first time in almost two decades, but might exclude from the assessment the benefits that undocumented immigrants contribute to the state’s economy. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/22/t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.

I spent 8 years at DHS's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Not because the Obama or Trump Administrations wanted us pains in the ass, but because Congress did. It created the office and it needs to stand up for its power to structure the executive branch. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

NEW (and my first BlueSky post!): How overwhelmed is the Houston-area criminal justice system? Read my story about a man who spent 18 years in the Harris County jail pre-trial. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

Read the full story from myself and Dan Keemahill in @propublica.org and the @texastribune.org. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/19/t...

For example, a teacher at a nearby religious school with no children in the district complained that a children’s biography of acclaimed Black poet @amandagorman.bsky.social , had “traces of CRT.” Administrators pulled the book from the purchase list.

NEW STORY🧵: Since the pandemic, Texas school boards have seen ideologically driven conservatives win supermajorities pledging to rid districts of so-called "crt.". A key, if often overlooked, factor in election outcomes, is how those districts elect their trustees. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

La presión de Trump sobre países y organizaciones internacionales debilita las protecciones para solicitantes de asilo - nuestra nota traducida - @lomikriel.bsky.social y Perla Trevizo www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.propublica.org/article/trum...

For weeks, Panama held hundreds of migrants removed from the U.S. against their will under pressure by the Trump administration, in what critics say was a breach of international law. By Perla Trevizo, @lomikriel.bsky.social ‪‪& @micarosenberg.bsky.social

The heroes we need! 🙏

NEW: Migrants detained in Panama expressed fear of returning to their countries. “They will execute me without hesitation,” one texted. “I am LGBT. My country harass these people. I cannot live a normal life in my country,” said another.

The UN's International Organization for Migration is tasked with helping vulnerable migrants around the world. It relies on US funding and is now under pressure as Trump deports people from all over to world to Panama w/ @lomikriel.bsky.social Perla Trevizo: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers, by @lomikriel.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social and Perla Trevizo

Texts from migrants who had sought asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, but instead were detained in Panama, show unraveling of the safety net: “They will execute me without hesitation.” “I cannot go back .. ever.” W/ @micarosenberg.bsky.social & Perla Trevizo www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The challenges to press freedom & the #Texas public information act are real- honored to join investigative reporters & lawyers engaged in this fight in panel organized by @Houstonbar @spj-posts.bsky.social Houston @josephinelee.bsky.social @lomikriel.bsky.social @lmcgaughy.bsky.social Eric Meyer

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

A must read story by @lomikriel.bsky.social "A top former government official who worked on refugee issues told ProPublica that another 100,000 refugees who had already been vetted by the Department of Homeland Security have also been blocked from entering the country." propub.li/3EI9X29

For my latest story, I reported on the lives of the undocumented contract workers who helped power Elon Musk's expansion in Austin. Sweeping debris, laying plumbing and pouring concrete, these workers built facilities that helped make Musk’s $400 billion fortune. Read for free: bloom.bg/41gG6a3

US Rep Michael McCaul of Texas, one of Biden’s critics on Afghanistan, said in a recent interview with CBS News that the U.S. needed to “live up to our word” to protect Afghan allies. “Otherwise, down the road, in another conflict, no one’s going to trust us.” www.texastribune.org/2025/02/19/t...

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

NEW: At least 200 Afghan Americans in the U.S. military have relatives who applied for refugee status only to be blocked by Trump’s refugee ban. “We serve this country because it protected us, but now it is abandoning my sister,” said one soldier. By @lomikriel.bsky.social

Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for thousands of Afghans, including those who worked with the U.S. military and their relatives. Two brothers hope answers come quickly for their sister and her husband @lomikriel.bsky.social @propublica.org @texastribune.org