Nicole Foy
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investigative reporter covering immigration, labor and more for
@propublica.org
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas. Listen to what kids told reporter
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind. Read more:
https://propub.li/4toqME6
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Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal
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NEW from ProPublica: Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons. They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
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Greatđź§µ from my
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Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:
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Lynda Lopez
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"The city of Minneapolis estimates that Operation Metro Surge, and the sometimes chaotic and violent scenes that accompanied it, resulted in $200 million in economic damage in January. Of that, small employers like El Sazon account for an estimated $81 million."
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ICE drawdown may be too late for small businesses like El Sazon
Operation Metro Surge kept many people of Latino and East African descent home, afraid to go to work or out to shops and restaurants. This caused a drastic drop in revenue for small businesses, which ...
https://www.startribune.com/el-sazon-bankrupt-broke-ice-crackdown-operation-metro-surge-immigrants-disruption-lost-revenue/601581326
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David F Brand
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Demand for contractors to help clear snow and ice is, uh, through the roof For
@wnyc.org
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@gothamist.com
gothamist.com/news/how-muc...
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How much snow can NYC rooftops really handle?
The weight of the snow and ice are wreaking havoc on NYC rooftops.
https://gothamist.com/news/how-much-snow-can-nyc-rooftops-really-handle
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Arya Sundaram
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Remember those ICE raids on Canal St. last fall targeting West African street vendors? Federal judges have ordered the release of at least 3 of the 10 men detained, arguing their arrests were unlawful.
gothamist.com/news/judges-...
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Judges free Canal Street vendors arrested by ICE, question legality of raids
Department of Homeland Security officials said the arrests were part of “targeted” operations to crack down on the illegal sale of counterfeit goods.
https://gothamist.com/news/judges-free-canal-street-vendors-arrested-by-ice-question-legality-of-raids
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@lataco.bsky.social
is raising money to launch a dedicated investigative news desk. If you've relied on their immigration coverage this year like I have, you know this is a worthy cause to support.
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L.A. TACO Investigative Journalism Fund
By L.A. TACO
https://givebutter.com/la-taco-investigative
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9 days ago
So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official
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a four-fold increase in the use of force by ICE agents was flagged back in March. A year ago.
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ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis shootings
Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership did not see it as a concern to be addressed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/ice-officials-use-of-force-00782501
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Kyle Cheney
15 days ago
NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each. Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy.
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Unnamed agents suspended for unspecified amount of time after [checks notes] shooting a man and lying about it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
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Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/prosecutor-dismiss-charges-men-shot-by-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1A.0hZ_.Qe7YCNClCDfR&smid=bs-share
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Mike Hixenbaugh
14 days ago
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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Eric Umansky
15 days ago
ICE's chief testified today that dozens of agents have been investigated for abuse in the last year. So how many have actually been punished and fired? He wouldn't say.
www.npr.org/2026/02/12/g...
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Chris Hayes
16 days ago
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Mia Maldonado
16 days ago
Rep. Ricki Ruiz, D-Gresham, invited the Crespo-González family to be his special guests today on the House floor in the Oregon State Capitol. Here he is introducing House Speaker Julie Fahey, or “la mera mera,” to them.
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Sarah Glen
16 days ago
🪧 Out in Austin with my
@propublicaguild.org
, Texas Tribune guild and Austin American Statesman guild colleagues in our fight for fair contracts. 🪧
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ProPublica Guild
16 days ago
We’re ready to strike! Our members are walking out of
@propublica.org
’s offices today to practice picketing and show we are serious about winning a fair contract. Support us by signing our petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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You know how it’s a
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The interview w/Idaho sheriff involved in the raid (who I covered OFTEN years ago) is striking. He disputes zip-tied kids until shown pic of 14YO girl (same pic that made FBI backtrack months ago) Then: "I've gone against gang members who are a lot younger than that"
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A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics
A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zip-tied-14-year-old-girl-idaho-raid-ice-tactics/?linkId=904788739
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Kyle Pfannenstiel
17 days ago
After a 16-year-old complained his zip-ties were too tight at a an ICE/FBI raid in southwest Idaho, an officer laughed and tightened them, the ACLU alleges in a new lawsuit. He still has scars, months later.
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In southwest Idaho FBI raid, officials zip-tiped teens and used aggressive force, lawsuit alleges • Idaho Capital Sun
A lawsuit by ACLU of Idaho alleges law enforcement used aggressive tactics and unjustly detained hundreds of people, including children.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/in-southwest-idaho-fbi-raid-officials-zip-tiped-teens-and-used-aggressive-force-lawsuit-alleges/
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Idaho Capital Sun
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For four hours, hundreds of people were detained — without food, or consistent access to water, bathrooms or medical treatment, including a man who was bleeding from his head after an officer allegedly struck him with a rifle, the lawsuit claims.
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In southwest Idaho FBI raid, officials zip-tiped teens and used aggressive force, lawsuit alleges • Idaho Capital Sun
A lawsuit by ACLU of Idaho alleges law enforcement used aggressive tactics and unjustly detained hundreds of people, including children.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/in-southwest-idaho-fbi-raid-officials-zip-tiped-teens-and-used-aggressive-force-lawsuit-alleges/
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if you remember the FBI + ICE + local raid on a horse race track in Wilder, Idaho that detained hundreds of families (including many kids & U.S. citizens) the
@acluidaho.bsky.social
just announced a lawsuit. The complaint is just as disturbing as previous reporting
www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:
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THE CITY
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ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, attorneys for the Trump administration said Monday.
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ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/26-federal-plaza-jail-conditions-ice-judge-kaplan-ruling/
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ProPublica
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Our investigation found 40+ cases in which federal immigration agents used chokeholds or other moves that can restrict someone’s breathing:
https://propub.li/4rq51BV
We showed video clips from our reporting to Marc Brown, a law enforcement expert. This is what he said.
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9 YO detained on the way to Disney World now thinks her family's detention is her fault the letters and videos
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
collected from the children of Dilley will break your heart
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Nine-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra, from Colombia, drew a portrait of herself and her mother wearing their detainee ID badges. A note on the side said, “I am not happy, please get me out of here.”
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children
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Eric Umansky
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My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
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quite a quote to give the paper of record about a raid in your town (especially when it’s easily disproven by wall-to-wall local news coverage in English and Spanish) Must read story about the Wilder, Idaho raid last year by
@agpnw.bsky.social
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
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Mica Rosenberg
18 days ago
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Mica Rosenberg
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Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words:
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters
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I don't think that man said a single word in English and I love that for us
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
20 days ago
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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Full story:
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospital-ice-beating-assault-4e77742e0629fc7f127c0aa38b3d2a70#
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Steve Cavendish
21 days ago
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
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Dave Byrnes
21 days ago
I asked DHS if they plan to recant labeling Martinez a domestic terrorist (despite the dismissal of her case), or offer her an apology, in light of Judge Alexakis' ruling today. I received this response: “DHS stands by our press releases and statements. The facts of what happened did not change.”
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FREE!
@nicolefoy.bsky.social
of
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@uprootproject.bsky.social
@vocesinternship.bsky.social
on "We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds & Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing" written w/past guest
@mckenziefunk.com
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NEW FREE HELL! ICE Reporting that Led to Congressional Investigations | This Is Hell!
Get more from This Is Hell! on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-free-hell-to-150052988
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Local authorities can investigate (and even charge) feds for alleged wrongdoing. So why don't they?
@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
, Andy Mannix & I asked local jurisdictions around the country if they're conducting their own investigations into shootings by immigration agents Read what we found:
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Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi
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ProPublica Guild
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Our members joined the
#SaveThePost
rally in D.C. today to protest the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. We stand in solidarity with
@postguild.bsky.social
. Support laid off workers:
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
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New: Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer”
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“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer”
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi
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our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua
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Chicagoan Marimar Martinez, who Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot in October, just concluded her testimony before a bicameral forum on DHS agents' violent behavior in Washington DC. She concluded with this remark: "If there's no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
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24 days ago
The livestream of this forum has begun; you can find it here:
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Chris Ingraham
25 days ago
This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
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