Extremely proud of @tinavasquez.bsky.social & this very sensitive, difficult, & deeply informative investigation highlighting Isabella, a former H-2A visa worker who thought she was entering the program for agricultural work but faced harrowing circumstances instead. prismreports.org/2025/09/24/w...

A searing investigation from @maxblau.bsky.social: how the H-2A visa, billed as a ticket to opportunity, has instead become a pipeline to "modern-day slavery."

"CBP arrested Retes for assault" is actually the first I've seen confirmation of which agency arrested George Retes Retes was released w/o charges, said he was never told the charges against him & has still not been charged Do you have more info on this? DM me or Signal is nicolefoy.27

"A tracker set up by a public radio consultant has identified 332 layoffs in public media since July 18, when the Republican-led Congress, at President Trump's urging, defunded public media."

“For years, immigrant domestic workers have kept New York’s child care and elder care systems running … Now their fears of being detained and deported are growing as immigration enforcement intensifies under the new Trump adminstration.” documentedny.com/2025/09/10/d...

really moving story from Emiliano Tahui Gómez @AustinStatesman about an Austin school besieged by Trump's mass deportation agenda It looks like a parent snatched in front of school dropoff, families abruptly self-deporting, even DPS & ICE staging in the parking lot www.statesman.com/news/local/a...

Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Southern California, overturning a lower court ruling that prohibited agents from stopping people based on their appearance. https://cal.news/4nq5YZk 📝 @wendyfry.bsky.social 📸 Etienne Laurent, AFP via Getty

Reminder: @propublica.org is still tracking how immigration agents use force when they make arrests. Do you have video or other documentation of forceful or violent arrests by immigration agents that we should review? Please reach out. email: [email protected] Signal: @nicolefoy.27

Officers in Idaho killed a non-verbal teen, disabled who was holding a knife *and standing behind a fence.* The officers "didn’t even ask what’s going on,” the boy's aunt said. Idaho's Republican AG just decided not to indict them. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

late to this, but hugely honored @propublica.org's immigration stories were named finalists in the Loeb Awards for business journalism in the explanatory category. Stories still worth a read, imho, even a year later: Mine & @mariamelba.bsky.social's contribution: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

rare to see the slow-moving insanity of our immigration system summarized in one case-- but lawyers for one detained firefighter said he got a U-visa certification in 2017 (for victims of serious crimes) and has been waiting for the results of his application since 2 0 1 8 apnews.com/article/immi...

Scrolling through this string of videos showing agents smashing car windows to get at drivers is scary af. Then you find out "officers who break glass aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted." From @nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mckenziefunk.com: projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

@propublica.org reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social's in THE BACK ROOM discussing Trump's draconian immigration policies podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Chilling story from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social about the Texas families living in fear as they head back to school. ~15% of K-12 students in Texas — or 890,000 children — have at least one undocumented parent, and an estimated 111,000 Texas kids are undocumented thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/14/m...

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

In my inbox from @ucmercedclc.bsky.social: the last few months of intense immigration enforcement in California has caused a downturn in private sector employment "comparable with the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic." Even citizens lost work. clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/g/file...

ProPublica is doing some of the best journalism out there right now, and their staff deserve protections and fair treatment. @propublica.org needs to agree to the guild’s demands so that their staff can be protected while they do their important work.

We want a fair and equitable process with robust just cause. We deserve no less than our peers in other unionized newsrooms. I’m not in NY but still lunching out in support.

We can’t produce fearless journalism @ProPublica without knowing our jobs are secure. That’s why I walked out for lunch today — to show support for Just Cause protections that apply to every @ProPublicaGuild worker, every time.

Members in Chicago, Seattle, Berkeley and across the country are lunching out to show support for Just Cause protections that apply to every ProPublica Guild worker, every time.

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...

I love working at ProPublica. I would love it more if it could guarantee us just cause protections. Go union.

Very good and important reporting. Also why it's crucial for reporters now covering immigration to remember that -- regardless of stated local policies about working with ICE -- law enforcement circles in small towns and rural areas (and really, everywhere) overlap alllll the time.

We're well over the 50 incidents documented in our investigation now. Here's one from this week from @opb.org, reporting that a young girl was also in the the van of Mam-speaking farmworkers from Guatemala when immigration agents broke the driver window. www.opb.org/article/2025...

ICE recruitment is ramping up, with increasing use of window smashing to make arrests. We'll discuss on Your Call 10am PT today w/ reporters: @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com @jesswash.bsky.social Stream live 10am PT @kalwradio.bsky.social! www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

New: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to halt an injunction that’s currently preventing it from racially profiling Hispanic people while conducting immigration arrests in part of California. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Read this thread about our @propublica.org reporting on how immigration officers are increasingly smashing car windows to arrest immigrants (just a warning, many of the videos in this thread contain footage/audio of violent arrests and screaming children) ⬇️ projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Leer en español: projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm... END/

Please read our investigation and judge for yourself. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm... 12/

ProPublica asked the administration detailed questions about each incident in our story. In reply, a White House spokesperson called us “a left-wing rag” and asserted that “ICE Officers are heroically getting these violent illegal aliens off of American streets with the utmost professionalism.” 11/

It looks like masked men following a green-card applicant to a suburban preschool in Oregon, waiting until his toddler is out of the car, then smashing his window and arresting him as parents and teachers look on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjz... 10/

It looks like officers stopping a Massachusetts family as they drive home from church on Mother’s Day, shattering their window, and letting the kids in the back of the car watch as their dad is forced to kneel, then slammed chest-first to the ground. 9/

By breaking so many windows, ICE and CBP may or may not be breaking the law. But they are certainly shattering norms. @nicolefoy.bsky.social and I spent months tracking down original videos and interviewing bystanders so that people would be able to witness what that looks like. 8/

High-ranking immigration officials have embraced the tactic. An ICE leader in Maryland was promoted to headquarters after TV cameras captured his threat to one driver—“We'll smash the fucking window out and drag him out"—and then showed his agents breaking the glass. youtu.be/8Kcvlu3KBBw?... 7/

Former ICE insiders and federal law enforcement instructors agree: Breaking windows was never part of any formal policy or training. Nor was it outright against the rules. It was just so aggressive that it was rare. But now there are arrest quotas, and officers are racing to hit their numbers. 6/

So “Is this legal?” may be the wrong question. “Is this normal?” was the better one. We did eventually find 8 instances of ICE and Border Patrol smashing car windows in the decade before Trump’s second presidency. But we’ve found nearly 50 instances in the six+ months since. 5/

As we collected videos, we called around to legal experts. Your home may be your castle under the Constitution—you don't have to open your door if there’s no warrant—but your car, we learned, is not. How much force officers can use to get you out hangs on the “totality of the circumstances.” 4/

Right after that, on the other side of the country, officers stopped a 51-year-old Maryland mother and smashed her window as her teenage daughter filmed from inside the car. The woman thanked one officer for helping her shake the broken glass out of her dress. Then he handcuffed her. 3/

One of the first videos we saw was from Spokane, Washington: Officers broke three car windows to arrest two brothers while the wife of the older brother, a U.S. citizen, cried and told the officers that she was pregnant. 2/

THREAD: All over the country, immigration officers are smashing car windows to get at the people inside. As we began tracking incidents, my @propublica.org colleague @nicolefoy.bsky.social and I had two questions: First, is this legal? Second, is it, well, normal? Was this happening before? 1/

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How have immigration officers tracked down unaccompanied minors for those "welfare checks" widely reported across the U.S.? Sometimes, by getting their addresses from school resource officers @rachelspacek.bsky.social breaks down how this happened in Idaho www.investigatewest.org/investigatew...

Thanks to @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social for featuring @propublica.org reporting from @mckenziefunk.com and me about immigration officers breaking car windows around the country, and having me on to answer questions! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1d...

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social Trump’s anti-immigration crusade has once again run face first into the courts. The 9th Circuit affirmed that LA raids relied on racial profiling. New @propublica.org report exposes more evidence of excessive use of force by ICE authorities. @nicolefoy.bsky.social

The surge in smashed windows may be only the beginning. Speaking about Trump’s signature spending bill, which triples the size of ICE, border czar Tom Homan told a conservative Christian conference: “You think we’re arresting people now? You wait.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mckenziefunk.com

Since @mckenziefunk.com & I published yesterday, we've already received new reports of more arrests like this. Some families just find the car left in the road, with no sign of their loved one Please reach out if you have more info on immigration arrests Signals: nicolefoy.27 or 212-379-5757 (Mac)

Shocking reporting by @nicolefoy.bsky.social and McKenzie Funk. Immigration officers are using escalating tactics to make arrest quotas. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Here is my Pressing Issues debut story, where I check in with @attorneynora.bsky.social about the #MarioGuevara case. Five Questions About Detained Journalist Mario Guevara Hope you take the time to read and also subscribe to PressingIssues.org!