"If the detainees’ accounts are true, their treatment may have violated UN conventions against torture...". www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... via @asteckelberg.bsky.social, @teoarmus.bsky.social, @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social, @marialuisapaul.bsky.social & @washingtonpost.com

On the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com: What 16 of the migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador’s CECOT experienced in that notorious mega prison w/ Sam Schmidt, Helena Carpio @marialuisapaul.bsky.social @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social @asteckelberg.bsky.social

ICE moves to shackle immigrants w/ GPS ankle monitors "A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the # of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance." For pregnant women, ICE will use wrist monitoring devices From @douglasmac.bsky.social & @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social

Breaking - and happy! - news!!! The @nahjdc just won the National Chapter of the Year award! Feeling so proud and so grateful for the community we have created here. May we have more and more and more Latinos in news! @morelatinosinnews.bsky.social

GOP tax bill bets big on Trump’s immigration agenda despite poll warnings. (Marianne LeVine and @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social, Washington Post-unlocked) www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

El Salvador says for first time that U.S. controls fate of jailed deportees @washingtonpost.com @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social wapo.st/44gKEi6

Wash Post: A Powerful Tool in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown: The Routine Traffic Stop by Silvia Foster-Frau. @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social Gift link! wapo.st/4nlucVj

Scoop: The Trump administration plans to resettle 1,000 Afrikaners by the end of September www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Two refugee families - one from South Africa, the other from Myanmar. Two very different experiences under Trump. @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports from the city both are now starting over in: Birmingham. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

COMBINED DIVISIONS: PODCAST – NARRATIVE 🎙️🎧 🥇 1st Place: "The Harvard Plan," Staff, @bostonglobe.com 🥈 2nd Place: "America's Toxic Tap Water Problem," @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social, ‬Emma Talkoff, & Monica Campbell, @washingtonpost.com

The @washingtonpost.com's Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social is also a member of @harvard.edu's 2026 Nieman Fellowship class. She spoke with 2024 @nationalpress.bsky.social Widening the Pipeline fellows last December. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyCi...

Meet the new class! We’re pleased to introduce the 2026 Nieman Fellows, 22 accomplished journalists who cover stories around the globe. They’ll join us at @harvard.edu this fall to study, investigate and collaborate. Welcome to all. nieman.harvard.edu/the-nieman-f...

Congratulations to NPF fellows @danielstrauss.bsky.social and Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman and NPF speaker @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social! 🎉

A look inside Trump's 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison, from @blaskey_s, @schmidtsam.bsky.social, @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social, @AnaVHerrero, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social @marialuisapaul.bsky.social & @karendeyoung1 www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

BREAKING Separate federal judge orders Trump administration to return second man sent erroneously to El Salvador megaprison @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports. ICE had agreed not to deport Cristian, a 20 year-old Venezuelan, until his asylum case was decided www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Spoke about FOIA and public records this morning at RNA alongside @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social and @jamesvgrimaldi.bsky.social, moderated by the great @reporterdeepa.bsky.social. Here’s the tip sheet I shared: bit.ly/rnafoia

This week's Nieman Storyboard newsletter, featuring stories from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social, @nlanard.bsky.social, @mckenziefunk.com, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social, and more. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/04/04/v... #longreads #reporting

Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted

“A Washington Post article by Silvia Foster-Frau followed the story of four Venezuelan friends who had come to the U.S. illegally. They shared a townhouse in Dallas, where immigration officials picked them up last Thursday. The men signed deportation papers, expecting to return to Venezuela, but🧵1/2

The 4 friends grew up blocks from each other in Venezuela. They lived & played soccer together in Dallas. Then they were arrested last week, their families say, & sent to the Salvadoran mega-prison. A story on the 4, accused of gang membership though the Post found no such record: wapo.st/4iW6RWW

Extraordinary reporting, carefully written, about 4 Venezuelan men who wound up in a Salvadoran hellhole prison, based on what looks like evidence as scant as a few tattoos. Via @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social Free link ⤵️ wapo.st/4iW6RWW

4 men from Maracaibo, Venezuela “were eking out a new life in Dallas, where they worked long hours and shared a townhouse. Then, on Thursday, armed officers showed up at their home, arrested them” and now, they're in a Salvadoran gulag. From WashPost @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social:

This is why I pay for @washingtonpost.com Tell me what other news orgs are going to be able to pay to do this kind of reporting over and over. Same thing for @nytimes.com. Good work on this @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social. Gift link below.

New: I spoke to the families of 4 migrants - friends in Venezuela who then lived as roommates in Dallas. They say the 4 men were arrested on Thurs and sent to the Salvadoran mega-prison after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. Please read their stories: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Mercedes Yamarte thought her son & his 3 roommates were getting deported back to Venezuela. Then she saw his face in Bukele’s video advertising the arrival of 200+ migrants to El Salvador’s mega-prison. “I didn’t have words. I couldn’t speak.” Please read: t.co/3BJtuL8gSf

Four fathers with no criminal records in the U.S. were seen among those deported to El Salvador without due process amid Trump’s secretive invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Via @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump said he wants to detain 30,000 migrants in Gitmo. But a month and a half in, it has only held ~ 300. 195 newly erected tents to hold them remain empty. And yet the per day costs of the operation have surpassed any US prison or ICE detention center. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

New with @alexhorton.bsky.social: The Trump administration has removed all the migrants who were being held at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba and flown them *back* to the United States wapo.st/4ilYZOI

President Donald Trump will soon sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, marking the first time the country will have a federally recognized national language in its nearly 250-year history.

New: Three migrants described to us what it was like being detained in Guantánamo. People screamed from their cells, there were suicide attempts, and prolonged periods in isolation that fit the UN definition of solitary confinement. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“although Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem called the migrants transported to Cuba the ‘worst of the worst,’ The Post could find no other criminal record for those interviewed.” wapo.st/4icNYil (gift link)

New: Three migrants described to us what it was like being detained in Guantánamo. People screamed from their cells, there were suicide attempts, and prolonged periods in isolation that fit the UN definition of solitary confinement. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention, via @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

New: The Trump administration said they’re the “worst of the worst.” The relatives and records of six migrants held in Guantanamo say otherwise. With Ana Herrero and @marialuisapaul.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Their names have not been released. Their exact crimes are unknown. The immigrants being held at Guantánamo have entered what some lawyers are calling a “legal black hole.” @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

UPDATE: Three groups have filed a TRO request on behalf of 3 Venezuelan men to preemptively prevent their potential transfer to Gitmo. The men had passed credible fear interviews, have been detained for over a year & recognized fellow detainees in Gitmo photos www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“Camp 6 is inextricably intertwined with military detention,” Dixon said. “I don’t think you can unwrap Camp 6 from military detention.”
Dixon said the prison was made for suspected terrorists: “It was designed to break detainees psychologically.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Their names have not been released. Their exact crimes are unknown. The more than three dozen immigrants being held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have entered what lawyers are calling a “legal black hole.” More: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Listen to our latest Post Reports for the low-down on Trump’s immigration crackdown with me and my colleague, expert reporter Nick Miroff, & produced by audio genius Emma Talkoff, wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman issues injunction on Trump’s birthright citizenship order @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social “No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation. This court will not be the first.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Via @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"I’m, like, always looking behind my back to see whether if any cops that come around here are going to take my family members.” A powerful story about how an ICE raid sends fear rippling through a community from @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social & Marianne LeVine www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The story of an Ecaduorian immigrant arrested with two coworkers in an ICE raid in Newark three days after Trump took office, via @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social and Marianne Levine www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Lawyers say the logistical hurdles of a system to determine which babies qualify for birthright citizenship would add to government bloat and delays and errors even for the millions who do qualify. w/ @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social @mollyhf.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Remember the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, starring Julia Roberts? It ends with Hinkley residents receiving $333 million from PG&E after they said it dumped in their water & sickened them.I went to Hinkley, and discovered their story is far from over. On today’s front page: wapo.st/3CPKYZZ

In the town ‘Erin Brockovich’ made famous, residents still fear dirty #water. An ongoing struggle in Hinkley, #California, to remove dangerous chemicals from #drinking water demonstrates how difficult contamination can be to clean up. @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social #pollution #PG&E #chromium6 🌎💦

New: Decades since the events of the blockbuster film “Erin Brockovich,” the water in some parts of Hinkley is still contaminated with chromium-6. A look at why it takes so long to fix a water crisis - even when it earns national attention from a hit movie. Gift link: wapo.st/3CPKYZZ

During Helene, dozens were dramatically rescued from the roof of a Tennessee hospital. A mile away, 6 workers died at a factory. We spent 2 months investigating why some lived — and some died — in Erwin, analyzing visuals, flood maps, weather data + interviewing survivors and relatives. GIFT LINK:

Today marks two months since 6 people who worked at Impact Plastics in Erwin, TN died in Helene-caused flooding. Today, @samueloakford.bsky.social @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social & I have an investigation that looks at the decisions that shaped a daring rescue and a devastating loss t.co/L7xxsr6lLm