I am a national reporter for The New York Times, covering the border and immigration. My book, “El Paso: Five families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,” from Dutton, is coming in 2026.
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Before his immigration check-in, Kilmar Abrego Garcia delivered an emotional plea to immigrants and the immigrant rights community. “Regardless of what happens here with ICE, promise me this that you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity — not only for me but for everyone,” he said.
When Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned home, he was greeted with flowers, metallic streamers and cheers. But his homecoming celebration has been muted. For him, the odyssey is not over: He’s on an ankle monitor, and his lawyers say the gov wants to deport him to Uganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...
Gift link! Immigration Enforcement Takes Key Role in Trump’s D.C. Crime Crackdown By @jazmineulloa.bsky.social and Christina Morales. Photographs by Tierney L. Cross.
Zack’s next comic is about a young reporter on the night cops beat at a South Texas newspaper. When a Border Patrol agent turns up gruesomely murdered, he must untangle the violent mystery with a beloved local priest. You can follow the launch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...
“My friend told me to be careful because they are squarely picking up everyone, simply for having a Hispanic face.” Immigrant workers in DC say they find themselves at the center of two crackdowns: one on crime, another on illegal immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
a real feature i wrote for The McAllen Monitor in 2009 is the (very loose) inspiration for the priest in our new comic, Macabre Valley #1 (follow it now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...) he'd adopted nearly 20 stray dogs in Mission, Tx., and they followed him everywhere, including to the altar
Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, has filed a claim against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention. It could be the first of dozens filed by migrants deported to CECOT in March without due process. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...
Why did I write about state court pushback to the Dred Scott decision? Because President Trump’s January 2025 Executive Order directly cited the Dred Scott decision when he took aim at birthright citizenship. And we could see state courts pushback against the Supreme Court again. I'll explain. /1
In an exclusive interview with CBS News, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said his agents will arrest anyone they find in the country illegally, even if they lack a criminal record, while also cracking down on companies hiring unauthorized workers. cbsn.ws/46DcyGL
Artist, historian, and preservationist, Robert Louis Brandon Edwards, is transforming a Greyhound bus into a museum about Black American migration www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
Thank you!!
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
my incredibly talented wife’s book is up for pre-order I’ve had the honor of watching as ideas, reporting, and research became a riveting narrative and page after page of beautiful writing El Paso has contributed so much to America’s identity, and this is the city’s story out March 3, 2026
Big news from me: I wrote a book exploring identity, belonging, and the power of myth from the place that made me — El Paso, Texas. It is set for release March 3. But you can pre-order it now.
In an interview, Job Garcia, an American citizen who was tackled and detained him for more than 24 hours, said he decided to take action for the next generation of Latinos. “I do not want them to ever feel unsafe in the country they were born and belong simply because of how they look,” he said.
New: Two novel challenges to the Trump administration have been filed in LA, highlighting the tactics of federal officers in Southern California that immigrant rights groups and ordinary citizens say have been excessive, sometimes brutal and often unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.
Democrats, legal advocates and civil and immigrant rights groups on Friday delivered a full-throated rebuke of the Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving birthright citizenship, saying it would create chaos and a dangerous patchwork of rights across the nation.
“The Supreme Court’s opinion setting new limits on the power of district-court judges to use one of their most potent tools — nationwide injunctions — marks the beginning of a profound shift in the way the federal courts do business,” writes Mattathias Schwartz. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
The Supreme Court made no ruling on the constitutionality of his move to end birthright citizenship, but the justices today limited the ability of federal judges to temporarily pause President Trump’s executive orders. All of the latest is here. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
On the campaign trail in 2023, I visited a community built on bonds in DeWitt, IA — “Little Ukraine.” Photog Jamie Keller Davis and I returned recently, as the Trump administration has sought to pause protections for more than 240,000 Ukrainians. Here’s the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...
As they sought to justify sending 700 Marines to LA, President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth described the protesters in the city as carrying foreign flags with the intention of continuing an “invasion.”To some Angelenos, that sounds like a fantastical twist. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
‘I’m an American, Bro!’: Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned. By Jennifer Medina.
Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising, by Lisa Lerer.
Video shows immigration agents interrogating a Latino U.S. citizen: ‘I’m American, bro!’ By Brittny Meija www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
And just as soon, the reversal: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
A pause on raids, for now. “The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
What reconstruct by the LA team: Los Angeles is home to the country’s largest population of undocumented immigrants. So when President Trump’s immigration raids arrived, many expected trouble. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
Most Americans have continued to support President Trump's push for deportations, but there are some early signs of cracks in his Latino support.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the metal worker wrongfully deported to El Salvador, has become a face of Trump’s immigration crackdown. In Prince George’s County, Md., he represents something more: a reminder that those bearing the brunt of the Trump administration’s immigration policies are Latinos.
NEW: I spoke to a 19-year-old (no tattoos, criminal record — open immigration case) who was almost removed from the country and potentially to El Salvador’s brutal prison until SCOTUS intervened this month. theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The death of an 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes while she was in U.S. border custody prompted investigations and the removal of the agency’s chief medical officer. Now, two immigrant rights groups are seeking $15 million in damages on behalf of the girl’s family. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
And we knocked on a lot of doors, chased court records, and conducted nearly two dozen interviews to capture a fuller portrait of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who has been at the center of the roiling American debate over immigration and democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...
Two heavy lifts from the Times to read this weekend. We reconstructed the scenes behind the deportations of 238 men to El Salvador. New details showed that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of Tren de Aragua. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
The 2023 death of an 8-year-old migrant girl in CBP custody prompted the removal of the agency’s chief medical officer. Now, two immigrant rights groups are seeking $15 million in damages on behalf of the girl’s family. @jazmineulloa.bsky.social reports: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego García’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, and who spoke out tirelessly for migrants, the marginalized and the health of the planet, died on Monday. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/w...
Early Saturday, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime law. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
Hours after Senator Chris Van Hollen was denied entry to the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was being held, the senator shared a photo of the two men speaking on Thursday afternoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
"We found little evidence of any criminal background — or any association with the gangs — for most of the 238 men sent to El Salvador" An investigation by @jazmineulloa.bsky.social J. Turkewitz, H. Aleaziz and Z. Kano-Youngs into the key story right now in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...
The Supreme Court has announced that it would hear arguments in a few weeks over President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. By Abbie VanSickle. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
A chaplain. Business owners. Parents and grandparents. The administration’s drive to carry out the largest campaign in history has ensnared people who didn’t see themselves as targets. By Caitlin Dickerson. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
There’s a real divide among House Democrats on whether to focus on Trump’s deportation policies. After one Dem called it a “soup du jour” issue, another told @Axios.com: “Should it be the big issue for Democrats? Probably not." Comms staffers have debated this too. www.axios.com/2025/04/17/d...
A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday to open a high-stakes contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration violated an order he issued last month directing officials to stop planes of Venezuelan migrants from being sent to El Salvador.
Seeking to provide a fuller picture of who was imprisoned in El Salvador, an NYT team ran the names of the 238 men through US databases, checked backgrounds in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Chile, scoured court docs and news articles, and spoke to relatives. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...
“The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.’” www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/14/b...
Tens of thousands of immigrants who had been allowed to temporarily live and work in the US under the Biden administration have received a seemingly unequivocal message in recent days from DHS. Leave “immediately.” w/ Miriam Jordan and @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Starting Monday, a new policy from the Department of Treasury will require social security number and other official identification documents when sending money abroad. (via @keranews.org)
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”
“Voting by noncitizens happens rarely, and it is already illegal in federal elections. But Mr. Trump and his Republican allies repeatedly insisted throughout his 2024 campaign that noncitizens were flooding to the polls,” from @migold.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
“An autistic young man loses his caretaker as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown expands to permanent U.S. residents convicted of minor crimes years ago,” from the great Miriam Jordan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
“The move is the latest in an extraordinary series of actions by the Trump administration, pushed by Elon Musk and DOGE to harness personal data long considered off limits to immigration authorities in order to advance President Trump’s vision for a mass migrant crackdown.”
Several top Internal Revenue Service officials, including the acting commissioner, are preparing to quit after the Trump administration pushed the agency to use its protected tax records to help homeland security officials deport immigrants, sources familiar say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
From Washington to Washington: Sheriff Dale Wagner, who is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee today, sees his department as David fighting Goliath. But he has the support of some of President Trump’s most influential allies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
Congress Wrote a Deportation Law to Be Used ‘Sparingly.’ Trump Has Other Ideas. A crackdown targeting foreign students protesting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians conflicts with free-speech protections that lawmakers added in 1990. nyti.ms/4ifjdcl
New: Judge Edward Chen finds decisions by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to terminate TPS for nearly 350K Venezuelans would inflict irreparable harm on families, cost the US billions and hurt the health and safety of communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...
Judge Chen expressed some skepticism that Noem had based her decisions on national security concerns given how swiftly they were made, and he questioned whether they had more to do with undoing her predecessor’s efforts. He also pressed government lawyers on the allegations of racial animus.
In San Francisco today, immigrant rights lawyers urged a federal judge to delay two actions by the Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, that would prevent Venezuelans from staying in the United States under Temporary Protected Status. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
“The move comes as the Trump administration ramps up its deportation campaign, in some cases removing people from the country with little to no due process.” From Zolan, Hamed, Charlie, Eileen. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...
The Trump administration has sought to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, though he is a legal permanent resident and has not been charged with a crime. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n...
Trump officials say deportees were gang members. Families and immigration lawyers argue not all of the deportees sent to a prison in El Salvador over the weekend had ties to gangs. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
“We finally got you.” Jeanette Vizguerra, who made national news evading deportation in a church basement, is the latest activist to be taken into custody by federal immigration agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
Two facilities in South Texas are being readied for undocumented parents and their children. One site began receiving them earlier this month. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
Two days before the November election, a rogue team of Harris campaign organizers turned a Dunkin’ Donuts in Philadelphia into their secret headquarters. Their special mission: Operation Dunkin’kirk. Great story by Nick Nehamas, Maya King, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...
Really fascinating piece about how Elon Musk both flipped Cameron County, a majority Latino county, for Donald Trump but also widened the wealth gap. @jazmineulloa.bsky.social was one of the best reporters this cycle. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...
Thank you Eric! 🙏
Radio Mambí birthed Cuban exile politics in South Florida. Now it’s a platform for Trumpism — even though it’s owned by Democrats, per Politico.
"His no-holds-barred macho persona reminded some Hispanic voters of the type of Latin American strongman known as a caudillo, an image that inspired not disdain but confidence." This by @jazmineulloa.bsky.social (free article) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...
Wow, thank you, Mike! 🙏💛
“Many oil & gas workers in the region oppose the electric car industry, but they adore Musk and his Teslas. Mr. Musk, an immigrant from South Africa, publicly bashes illegal immigration, a message that resonated in a place where many families can trace their immigrant roots going back generations.”
A great article. Musk is “an avatar of everything that is right and wrong on our society.”
“The world’s richest man honored like a king in one of the poorest counties in America.” A story that explains a lot. By @jazmineulloa.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...
Thanks for the shoutout, Eric!! 🙏💛
On election night, Donald Trump flipped Cameron County, and I knew I had to go back to the place where I spent my first days as a reporter: Brownsville. We traveled through the marshlands into Elon Musk’s Starbase to look at how he helped transform the region and its politics. nyti.ms/3B4IjuQ
"You are an abuser of women": The searing email that Pete Hegseth's own mother sent him in 2018 accusing him of sleeping around, cheating on his wife and debasing and belittling women. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
5 years ago yesterday I wrote an essay arguing that institutions were thinking about online media, insurgencies, & manipulation campaigns all wrong. Fighting the last war. The Digital Maginot line, I called it. It went viral then. Here it is on its anniversary. www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/t...
With its $11 billion Operation Lone Star enforcement effort along the border, Texas aims to be both the model and epicenter as the next Trump administration cracks down on immigration. @mollyhf @arelisrhdz wapo.st/3Zezars
“Imagine the population of Chicago. Then quadruple it. That’s about how many unauthorized immigrants Donald Trump hopes to remove from the country: 11 million people in all.”
Mexico’s recently elected President Claudia Sheinbaum responds to Donald Trump’s tariff plans with a reminder of a tale as old as time: the drugs go north, the guns go south. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This will be an interesting fight to watch. It was state and city sanctuary policies that helped keep the Trump administration from deporting as many people as former President Obama the first time Trump was in office. www.axios.com/local/denver...
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A new study has found that systemic barriers to voting on tribal lands contribute to substantial disparities in Native American turnout, particularly for presidential elections. And turnout was the lowest on tribal lands that have a high concentration of Native Americans, per LAT.
"These are the lawmakers for which freedom — to borrow from the great and recently departed Kris Kristofferson — is just another word for nothing left to lose." Nice JMart look at the Senate www.politico.com/news/magazin...
After a victorious Senate campaign, Ruben Gallego thinks others can follow his lead by signaling that they hear Latino voters’ economic pain. But repeating his success might not be so easy. Another insightful piece from Jenny and Kellen Browning.
In scores of interviews throughout 2024, Latino, Black and Asian American voters, many of whom voted for Donald Trump, said they no longer trusted Democrats to improve the economy, per Jennifer Medina.
Texas is offering 1,400 acres along the border to the incoming Trump administration for facilities to aid its mass deportation efforts.
In purple suburbs and blue cities, Republicans portrayed migrants as an invading force. Democrats struggled to respond to real and manufactured challenges over the border. How Harris’s effort to neutralize immigration as a campaign issue failed, from me. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/u...
On Veterans Day, remembering the Mexican American veterans who founded LULAC.
From its founding nearly a century ago, LULAC encouraged Hispanics to embrace American identity even as it fought discrimination. The 2024 election result presents a dilemma on both fronts. I interviewed past and present leaders and historians about where the group goes from here. nyti.ms/3Z0ogqr
Nearly eight years after the first challenges to his immigration policies, Donald Trump is returning to the White House promising a more aggressive crackdown. Immigration lawyers say they’ve been preparing for months. @mirjordan + me www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/u...
Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country, even as some looked to the future with a wary determination. By @EricaLG + @mayaaking www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...
Donald J. Trump picked up support among Latino and Black working-class voters, giving the party hope for a new way to win in a diversifying nation. By ace team @MichaelCBender + @katieglueck + @RuthIgielnik + @jennymedina www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/u...
Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is making a last-minute appeal to white working-class men. But for all his talk of football, that bloc is far from a safe bet for his ticket. My dispatch from the seven battlegrounds. nyti.ms/4eeG71k
LULAC, which was targeted in Texas’ election fraud case, is teaming up with a pro-democracy group to counter Republican-led election challenges. The first step: debunking the myth that noncitizens are illegally voting. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/u...
Former President Trump’s third run for the WH has neared its end the same way his first one started: with relentless dehumanizing portrayals of immigrants. It’s a xenophobic message that has been central to how Americans view immigration, historians said. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/u...
For decades, granting asylum has been part of the story that the US has told about itself. But regardless of who wins the WH, the election is likely to mark the end of the asylum system as Americans have known it. @hamed + me on a tenuous moment. nyti.ms/3YG6FUJ