Miami-based reporter for USA Today, focused on immigration and Latin America. Previously covered Congress, hurricanes, war, cops, courts and suicide squirrels.
Dec 20, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I joined a team of USA TODAY Network reporters to investigate the state of ICE’s massive, growing detention system. What we found is a system that’s supposed to civil in nature operating much like a punitive prison system. Here’s the first part: usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
We also looked at the private prison industry, which is pumping record money into the Trump administration and reaping record benefits from that investment. They run 19 (out of 24) ICE facilities opened since 2017 and now hold 75% of all ICE detainees: usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Oct 15, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
As we’ve all been paying attention to family separations and the border wall, the @realdonaldtrump administration has been ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal residents, ordering them to leave the U.S. within the next 18 months. @USATODAY 1/6
These are people who've been legally living and working in the U.S., many of them for decades. They've had 270,000 children here, all U.S. citizens. So what are they supposed to do with those kids? Leave them behind? Take them to a country they've never visited? 2/6
