Come join us @propublica.org We are hiring an investigative reporting fellow in Washington D.C. for a two-year position to cover the ever expanding world of immigration news. Apply here! grnh.se/dpwvle3d6us

With all the news about the ICE raid on Hyundai's plant, its worth remembering how parts suppliers to the massive car company were using child labor in the U.S. www.reuters.com/investigates...

An important heartbreaking story by Avi Asher-Shapiro and @chrisbing.bsky.social about the real world consequences of mistakes made by DOGE that put the lives of innocent people in Afghanistan at risk

Moving essay by Adriana Loureiro Fernández who photographed some of the Venezuelan men the Trump administration deported to prison in El Salvador and their families. Our investigation found the government knew the majority had not convicted crimes in the US when they were sent away.

Powerful testimonies of some of the Venezuelans who endured four months of imprisonment in El Salvador after being deported from the United States. youtu.be/6KZRtCE2UcI?...

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway @mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

We spoke to nine Venezuelans deported to prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration who told us about the abuse and mistreatment they endured there. Our latest ⁦ www.propublica.org/article/vene...

An important installment in our ongoing reporting on the companies angling to make a windfall on the Trump administration’s plan to massively, expand immigration detention by my colleagues @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/nath...

You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst." But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵

Today we published our 2nd story in an investigation into the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to El Salvador. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

A must read story by my @propublica.org colleagues. The IRS is building a vast system to share tax records with ICE and just last month the immigration enforcement agency requested the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This Wednesday a discussion with my @propublica.org colleagues about the rapidly evolving reality immigration enforcement in the U.S. events.propublica.org/immigration-...

How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13 How - important story / Sebastian Rotella and ⁦‪T. ‬⁩Cristian Miller www.propublica.org/article/buke...

NEW: Megan Twohey and I went deep on Elon Musk’s intense drug use as he rose to political power alongside Trump last year. He was using so much ketamine that he told people it was affecting his bladder. At SpaceX, he is getting warnings ahead of drug tests www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Current and former officials told @lomikriel.bsky.social and I that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompanied migrant children, is becoming an enforcement arm and at the same time the Trump administration fired the agency's first ombudsman www.propublica.org/article/offi...

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

ICE awarded, and promptly canceled, a $3.8 bln contract for an immigrant tent detention camp on a Texas military base. The move came days after @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Shapiro and I profiled the company that won it. The project is being re-bid www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social

As Trump Spends on Border Security, Residents’ Basic Needs Go Unmet — by Perla Trevizo and Anjeanette Damon www.texastribune.org/2025/04/16/t...

The Trump administration is not answering Congress' questions about ICE Detaining Americans. From @nicolefoy.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell www.propublica.org/article/rume...

UPDATE: ICE has awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss — its largest contract yet. It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.

After our story on Deployed Resources was finished -- in a major development -- ICE posted an up to $3.8 billion to the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss. The first move in plans to detain thousands of migrants on military bases www.propublica.org/article/trum...

My @propublica.org colleagues @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro and I discovered a little-known company started housing ICE detainees at a tent facility in El Paso in mid-March 🧵: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

New: @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I spoke to relatives and lawyers for 10 Venezuelans sent by the Trump admin to El Salvador. -All say their loved ones do not have gang ties -All have tattoos -One was told ICE was specifically targeting people with tattoos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

US immigration authorities detained and revoked the visa of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston who had voiced support for Palestinians in Israel's war in Gaza reut.rs/42aCcPf

Breaking News: A federal judge in Washington demanded Trump officials answer questions about two flights that deported Venezuelans, calling previous details “woefully insufficient.”

La presión de Trump sobre países y organizaciones internacionales debilita las protecciones para solicitantes de asilo - nuestra nota traducida - @lomikriel.bsky.social y Perla Trevizo www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.propublica.org/article/trum...

For weeks, Panama held hundreds of migrants removed from the U.S. against their will under pressure by the Trump administration, in what critics say was a breach of international law. By Perla Trevizo, @lomikriel.bsky.social ‪‪& @micarosenberg.bsky.social

The UN's International Organization for Migration is tasked with helping vulnerable migrants around the world. It relies on US funding and is now under pressure as Trump deports people from all over to world to Panama w/ @lomikriel.bsky.social Perla Trevizo: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: At tribal colleges, scholarships funded by a USDA grant have been suspended amid the Trump administration’s widespread cost-cutting. Now some students are facing their final weeks on campus.

NEW: Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social

Migrants from countries including Venezuela, Central America, Egypt, Ecuador, Guinea, Vietnam and Senegal have been sent to Guantanamo, according to data shared with @ProPublica. A mother whose son was detained there speaks out. Video by Gerardo del Valle www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for thousands of Afghans, including those who worked with the U.S. military and their relatives. Story by @lomikriel.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...

NEW: Marocco has tried shutting down nearly all USAID programs & freezing foreign aid. He’s led the charge to place nearly all USAID staff on administrative leave. Officials said they see the move as retribution against those who opposed his earlier work. By @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy

Among those caught in Trump's immigration enforcement dragnet is Riyer, a 27-year-old Venezuelan man detained by ICE in the Atlanta area. He worried about how his 22-year-old partner and their 5-month-old son would survive without him. ‘I keep thinking of them alone,’ he said reut.rs/3QjwWDh

Analysis of the high cost of military deportation flights - including to Guantanamo by the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/video/analys...

For my latest story, I reported on the lives of the undocumented contract workers who helped power Elon Musk's expansion in Austin. Sweeping debris, laying plumbing and pouring concrete, these workers built facilities that helped make Musk’s $400 billion fortune. Read for free: bloom.bg/41gG6a3

The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants to Guantanamo Bay. Perla Trevizo and I identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Why lawyers worry migrants sent to Gitmo are entering a ‘legal black hole’: A Department of Defense spokesperson did not answer questions about migrants’ legal access .. The Homeland Security and State departments did not respond to requests for comment

With this piece Perla Trevizo and I wanted to shed light on what really is new in Trump's immigration policies and what has been tried before. Data we obtained shows: Less than half of the ~8,200 ICE arrests from Jan. 20-Feb. 2 have criminal convictions. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

It's hard to keep track of all the changes since the inauguration. Perla Trevizo and I and I took a closer look at the immigration policies embedded in Trump's Day One executive orders. Most of them revive things he previously tried. Some are unprecedented. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

NEW: During Trump’s first term, EPA staff were told to defer more to state agencies on environmental enforcement. But we’ve documented a long history of state failures to hold polluters accountable — mostly in areas where support for Trump is strong. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

Aid Workers Fear Closing a Camp on the Arizona Border Will Endanger Migrants by Rafael Carranza www.propublica.org/article/aid-...

NEW: Organizations that provide vital, lifesaving care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

NEW: A top ICE official has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about migrant children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations. w/ @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Touching story, with beautiful photographs, by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social of Nicaraguans in Wisconsin fearful of deportation packing their most cherished belongings and shipping them to relatives back in Nicaragua. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

President Trump is preparing to send 10,000 troops to the southern border, and Border Patrol agents have been directed to deny entry to asylum seekers if they “traveled through a country with communicable disease,” according to an official document.