Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Chicago. @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks to pastors, activists, and lawyers about what’s really going on in the city and what their response should be. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Federal cases challenging the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps could redefine the limits on the discretion officers have to stop, question and detain people over their citizenship and how much race and ethnicity can factor in those decisions. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

This line in this NYT Mag piece about the LA Dodgers and the nation’s immigration crackdown… “He was a shy 19-year-old who spoke almost no English when he was brought up to the Dodgers in September 1980, attributes that today might land him in the back of an ICE van.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/m...

Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens, by @jesus-jimz.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Learn more about the government’s policy of voluntary departure to push immigrants out of the U.S. by reading the full @nytimes.com by @jazmineulloa.bsky.social here: bit.ly/nytselfdepor...

Trump once mocked Romney for advocating "self-deportation." Now it's Trump's official policy. A look by @jazmineulloa.bsky.social at the long history of efforts to convince or coerce migrants to leave the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Our Chicago bureau chief was out for a run near Lake Michigan, when she watched a black S.U.V. make a U-turn and chase down three young men. It’s a scene now unfolding across the city every day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Four months ago, Yessenia Ruano put her home in Wisconsin up for rent, packed a few bags and left for her native El Salvador. Now, she is among immigrant women who say ICE is wrongfully detaining and deporting domestic violence or human trafficking victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

For decades, the United States tried to push undocumented people to self-deport. Success has often depended on coercion. I wrote a short history of the long shadow of self-deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Brad Simpson appreciation post. Look at these amazing colors over Anna Readman’s lines. Back our book now, campaign ending within 24 hours! Texas + werewolves + journalism www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

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The first review for my book is in, and I got the coveted star from Kirkus! So deeply honored and over the moon. What a summary: “A passionate and urgent account that transforms the embers of a bypassed history into flames that consume the present.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

With 3 days left on Kickstarter, Macabre Valley is now just a few small backers (two, to be exact) from being my most popular campaign ever Back it here, help us set a new record: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

A majority of voters favor deporting those in the U.S. illegally, but say President Trump’s tactics have gone too far, a new Times/Siena poll found. w/ Ruth Igielnik www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

In his mass deportation campaign, President Trump has sought to end humanitarian programs that have allowed people from troubled nations to live and work temporarily in the US. The most litigated: Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. Here’s a look at who still has it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at a federal immigration facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to LULAC. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

NEW: Mayor Wu has been one of the faces of pushback to Trump's ICE demands. But a police grant the city is re-applying for is sparking concerns about helping immigration enforcement: not just due to new strings DHS is imposing, but also due to how a fusion center called BRIC is already working.

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Miguel Ángel García, a house painter and father of four from Mexico, is one of two detainees critically injured by a Dallas gunman. Sources familiar tell us Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela was also hurt; Norlan Guzman-Fuentes of El Sal was killed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

After a sniper killed a detainee in Dallas, congressional Democrats in Texas and leaders with top immigrant and civil rights groups did not disagree with ICE officials: the harmful rhetoric needs to stop — against law enforcement officers, and against immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

From earlier: “It was one shot after another after another after another.” Witnesses in Dallas describe rapid gunfire. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Today on SKTCHD, I have a giant-size chat with @zackquaintance.bsky.social about building a career in comics as a critic and writer, Kickstarting comics, his currently being Kickstarted issue Macabre Valley #1, collaboration, the state of comic sites, and more.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

“And on a personal note… I strongly believe that the loss of local newspapers is an underdiscussed blow to our communities. With this comic, I hope to make readers consider that, as well as how we got here and how scary it is that nothing has effectively replaced what we once had.”

Pilsen, a part of the city long home to Chicagoans of Mexican heritage, has grown quieter since the Trump administration announced an operation against illegal immigration. (by @jazmineulloa.bsky.social & 📸 by @jamiekelterdavis.bsky.social)

A dispatch from Chicago crackdown: Residents of Pilsen, home to Mexican immigrants to the Midwest for decades, spoke of undocumented relatives and neighbors who now are mostly staying at home, and of a broad sense of worry — but also of renewed solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Before his immigration check-in, Kilmar Abrego Garcia delivered an emotional plea to immigrants and the immigrant rights community. “Regardless of what happens here with ICE, promise me this that you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity — not only for me but for everyone,” he said.

When Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned home, he was greeted with flowers, metallic streamers and cheers. But his homecoming celebration has been muted. For him, the odyssey is not over: He’s on an ankle monitor, and his lawyers say the gov wants to deport him to Uganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...

Gift link! Immigration Enforcement Takes Key Role in Trump’s D.C. Crime Crackdown By @jazmineulloa.bsky.social and Christina Morales. Photographs by Tierney L. Cross.

Zack’s next comic is about a young reporter on the night cops beat at a South Texas newspaper. When a Border Patrol agent turns up gruesomely murdered, he must untangle the violent mystery with a beloved local priest. You can follow the launch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

“My friend told me to be careful because they are squarely picking up everyone, simply for having a Hispanic face.” Immigrant workers in DC say they find themselves at the center of two crackdowns: one on crime, another on illegal immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

a real feature i wrote for The McAllen Monitor in 2009 is the (very loose) inspiration for the priest in our new comic, Macabre Valley #1 (follow it now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...) he'd adopted nearly 20 stray dogs in Mission, Tx., and they followed him everywhere, including to the altar

Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, has filed a claim against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention. It could be the first of dozens filed by migrants deported to CECOT in March without due process. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

Why did I write about state court pushback to the Dred Scott decision? Because President Trump’s January 2025 Executive Order directly cited the Dred Scott decision when he took aim at birthright citizenship. And we could see state courts pushback against the Supreme Court again. I'll explain. /1

In an exclusive interview with CBS News, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said his agents will arrest anyone they find in the country illegally, even if they lack a criminal record, while also cracking down on companies hiring unauthorized workers. cbsn.ws/46DcyGL

Artist, historian, and preservationist, Robert Louis Brandon Edwards, is transforming a Greyhound bus into a museum about Black American migration www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-...

my incredibly talented wife’s book is up for pre-order I’ve had the honor of watching as ideas, reporting, and research became a riveting narrative and page after page of beautiful writing El Paso has contributed so much to America’s identity, and this is the city’s story out March 3, 2026

Big news from me: I wrote a book exploring identity, belonging, and the power of myth from the place that made me — El Paso, Texas. It is set for release March 3. But you can pre-order it now.

In an interview, Job Garcia, an American citizen who was tackled and detained him for more than 24 hours, said he decided to take action for the next generation of Latinos. “I do not want them to ever feel unsafe in the country they were born and belong simply because of how they look,” he said.

New: Two novel challenges to the Trump administration have been filed in LA, highlighting the tactics of federal officers in Southern California that immigrant rights groups and ordinary citizens say have been excessive, sometimes brutal and often unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.

Democrats, legal advocates and civil and immigrant rights groups on Friday delivered a full-throated rebuke of the Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving birthright citizenship, saying it would create chaos and a dangerous patchwork of rights across the nation.

“The Supreme Court’s opinion setting new limits on the power of district-court judges to use one of their most potent tools — nationwide injunctions — marks the beginning of a profound shift in the way the federal courts do business,” writes Mattathias Schwartz. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

The Supreme Court made no ruling on the constitutionality of his move to end birthright citizenship, but the justices today limited the ability of federal judges to temporarily pause President Trump’s executive orders. All of the latest is here. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

On the campaign trail in 2023, I visited a community built on bonds in DeWitt, IA — “Little Ukraine.” Photog Jamie Keller Davis and I returned recently, as the Trump administration has sought to pause protections for more than 240,000 Ukrainians. Here’s the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

As they sought to justify sending 700 Marines to LA, President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth described the protesters in the city as carrying foreign flags with the intention of continuing an “invasion.”To some Angelenos, that sounds like a fantastical twist. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

‘I’m an American, Bro!’: Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned. By Jennifer Medina.