Featured story from Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Under the second Trump presidency, a former pathway to permanent residency for Cubans now leads to legal chaos for many. We interviewed 5 recent Cuban immigrants to Texas to hear their stories.

From Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Under Trump, more than 50 American kids per day have an undocumented parent yanked into ICE detention. These children are citizens and the government has left them struggling to survive.

Last week, from Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: About 822,500 U.S. citizen children in Texas live with at least one undocumented parent. No federal or state programs exist to help cover rent, utilities, or childcare when the breadwinner is deported.

Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social is an important voice for immigrants and I'm grateful @texasobserver.org is giving him a space for reporting like this.

New from Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Under Trump, more than 50 American kids per day have an undocumented parent yanked into ICE detention. These children are citizens and the government has left them struggling to survive. Here are the stories of some from Texas ...

Our top story, Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Under the second Trump presidency, a former pathway to permanent residency for Cubans now leads to legal chaos for many. We interviewed 5 recent Cuban immigrants to Texas to hear their stories.

From our magazine: On May 30, SCOTUS authorized the Trump administration to cancel the residency program that protected as many as many as 110,000 Cubans. Lives were upended, and immigrants who safely worked here now struggle to survive.

Our top story: A wave of refugees fled Cuba over the past five years, seeking safety. Instead, they found a U.S. immigration system that opens doors, then slams them shut: work permits canceled overnight and bureaucratic delays stretching for years.

Tues: @adimagazine.bsky.social hold online panel "Confronting Structures of Censorship" featuring @kirstenhan.com @jankcurbelo.bsky.social & more Wed: The International Network for Critical China Studies hold webinar "Academic Freedom and China" 4/

New from Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Under the second Trump presidency, a former pathway to permanent residency for Cubans now leads to legal chaos for many. We interviewed 5 recent Cuban immigrants to Texas to hear their stories.

Join Adi for our virtual panel,"Confronting Structures of Censorship" on May 12 at 7 PM ET! We'll be featuring @kirstenhan.com, Rania Mamoun and Jesús Jank Curbelo, in conversation with Adi's nonfiction editor, Ruxandra Guidi. Free registration is available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/confrontin...

🔴 Después de más de dos años bloqueada, vuelve a estar vigente una polémica ley de Texas que permite a la policía local detener a personas sospechosas de haber cruzado la frontera de Estados Unidos de forma irregular dozz.es/5f4qlt

New from @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Cuba is in the dark. Literally—for most of the day, most of the country has no electricity. The national power grid, known by its Spanish acronym, SEN, has collapsed 7 times in the past 18 months.

Best of 2024, from Jesús Jank Curbelo in collaboration with palabra.: “It was October 1, 2022, and I was en route to becoming one of the nearly 30,000 Cubans who crossed the southern border into the United States that same month.”

"You must blend in with U.S. machinery until you become part of it." New: After a harrowing journey from Cuba to Texas, Jesús Jank Curbelo shares his life in the Dallas suburbs ...

"You don’t need to burn books when you can edit the metadata." There's a new essay up today on the Adi site by Jesús Jank Curbelo entitled "Almost Nothing I Wrote Exists." Curbelo writes about censorship in Cuba and the fragility of digital archives. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/alm...

We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead Jesús Jank Curbelo as a special investigative correspondent, a freelance role helping us cover immigration and immigrant communities in Texas: www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/

🔴 Houston enfrenta una crisis de seguridad que aumenta a medida que más cadáveres continúan apareciendo en sus bayous o canales. Según el Instituto de Ciencias Forenses del condado texano de Harris, al menos 24 personas han sido encontradas sin vida dozz.es/u2ekn6

🇺🇸 En 2021, los beneficiarios del #TexasDreamAct aportaron 81,6 millones de dólares en matrícula y tarifas a las universidades públicas El American Immigration Council calcula que la derogación le costará al Estado unos 461 millones de dólares anuales dozz.es/8r8sv4

Trump Burger es una inusual cadena de restaurantes ubicada en Texas que, más que comida, vende la ideología del presidente estadounidense. Nada de eso ha podido salvar a Roland Beainy de la deportación. Debía salir antes de febrero de 2024. Como no lo hizo, fue arrestado

Patricia Campos, "Pato", estudiante de 21 años de Puruándiro, Mich. (69,260 habitantes). Rescatista de los Topos Azteca en la inundaciones de Texas. Una crónica junto con @jankcurbelo.bsky.social para Letras Libres. letraslibres.com/perfiles/pat...

From @jankcurbelo.bsky.social in 2024: "I feared leaving home, afraid I’d be followed by plainclothes state agents. So I fled. Destination: Dallas. I became a man without a country, and I was as terrified of setting foot in the United States as I was of not surviving the trip."

The simple act of trying to take your son to the park has immigrants worried about their safety. @jankcurbelo.bsky.social shares his experiences in this chilling essay for @highcountrynews.bsky.social www.hcn.org/articles/imm...

Croniquilla para @highcountrynews.bsky.social www.hcn.org/articles/imm...

Croniquita en @elpais.com sobre Sand Branch, un pueblo sin agua en Texas.

Los pequeños negocios en Altadena, California, aún enfrentan las consecuencias de los incendios de Los Ángeles. Muchos negocios privados se han visto obligados a reducir su tamaño y, en los peores casos, a empezar desde cero. @jankcurbelo.bsky.social Lee más aquí: bit.ly/3QIbdVU

Small businesses in Altadena, California, are still facing the effects of the Los Angeles fires. Many private-owned businesses are having to downsize, and, in the worst cases, start from scratch. www.palabranahj.org/archive/alta... @jankcurbelo.bsky.social

La fotoperiodista Zaydee Sánchez, colaboradora de palabra desde hace mucho tiempo, gana el Premio American Mosaic Journalism 2025 por su cobertura de comunidades mal representadas Heising-Simons Foundation. @jankcurbelo.bsky.social habló con ella sobre su trabajo reciente. bit.ly/3Xa8iso

Long-time palabra contributor, photojournalist Zaydee Sánchez, wins the 2025 American Mosaic Journalism Prize for coverage of misrepresented communities. @jankcurbelo.bsky.social spoke with her about her recent work: bit.ly/4hxosED

El racismo en la era Trump. @elpaisamerica.bsky.social 👇 elpais.com/us/migracion...

elpais.com/us/2025-01-1... Pinchita en @elpais.com 👇

🌟 Editors’ Picks 2024: palabra celebrates 5 years of elevating Latino narratives. Explore stories shaping the future: 🔗 bit.ly/3YrXr5M #LatinoVoices

Pinchita en @elpaisamerica.bsky.social sobre el bloqueo de las páginas X en Tx. Feat. mayfren @wendyselene.bsky.social elpais.com/us/2024-11-2...

Introducing the July/August 2024 issue of Texas Observer magazine. Visit texasobserver.org/editors-lett... for a special preview from @gusbova.bsky.social

Browse everything from the July/August 2024 issue of our magazine, so far: www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-...

Introducing “Going to See the Volcanos.” Cuban journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo shares his harrowing journey ending with his Rio Grande crossing to seek asylum in the U.S. Collab w/ palabra. 🗓️Story available online July 9. Read a preview 🔗 bit.ly/3VL9xgo

My 2nd story with @texasobserver.org 👇

I love this convo with Jesús Jank Curbelo, a Cuban journalist who emigrated to Texas 2 yrs ago. If you want to understand what's going on socially & culturally in Cuba today, listen to this one. Convo in Spanish, link to Eng translation of audio in episode notes. www.buzzsprout.com/2158804/epis...

Curbelo has begun to publish here in the US, with several pieces in the Texas Observer bsky.app/profile/texa...