NEW: I have been tracking this case since this young man from Venezuela (no tattoos, no criminal record, immigration court date on the books) was sent to Bluebonnet, Tx, from Va and almost removed from the country until the April 19 SCOTUS order. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a… Javier Salazar, 19, came to the country as an unaccompanied minor and reunited with family. He was a dependent on his father's asylum case. His family says he loved to play video games like Fifa and "was a kid" -- just in the process of growing up.

NEW: For @thenation and @typeinvestigate : I interviewed several attorneys in the Maryland area whose clients were held in ICE field office processing cells -- meant for less than a 12-hour hold -- for several days without beds, showers, medication.
thenation.com/article/societ… Here's the story on the @typeinvestigate website

typeinvestigations.org/news/2025/03/1…

I wrote about the people in Dearborn who didn’t want to vote for Biden. They were losing family members every day — and Biden (later Harris) either actively ignored them/or sent proxies to mock them as that escalated. If this is your first reaction…

https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1886889562343108804

…to the expected news that Trump is also bad on Gaza and Palestinians (and many of the people there had no illusions it’d be otherwise) then idk what to tell you, man. “I told you so” is a really cruel thing to say to people who/whose families are being subject to…

For 2 yrs, I've been looking into Border Patrol's rescue program. For @typeinvestigate and @highcountrynews I wrote about what it means for missing and in-distress migrants when the same agency that chases you is responsible for saving you.

hcn.org/issues/56-9/th… The story revolves around the experiences of you young men who crossed in Southern Arizona and after a harrowing week of trekking through the desert were injured and left behind. What happened when they called 911? What systems were deployed? How did they work (or not work)?