Staff writer at @theatlantic via @nytimes & @npr. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, the Livingston Award, and a Peabody. Cdickerson@theatlantic.com. At #IRE23
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May 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
1/T-42 coverage depicting migrants as inherently threatening--ppl who will take your jobs, your safety, your health, your *something*--plays into centuries-old xenophobic stereotypes that have never been borne out by facts.
2/The resource strain at the border and in some cities (including mine) is real, but it's not the full, fact-based picture of how newcomers would impact American society. It's a tiny fraction of it.
Aug 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/ICYMI: Matt Albence, an enthusiastic proponent for Zero Tolerance who tried to stop separated families from being reunited (writing, “We can’t have this”) is poised to join GEO, a private prison company that is federally contracted to detain migrants. law360.com/articles/15157…
2/Before this appointment, Albence continued to work in immigration detention, having collaborated with the Biden administration as a representative of his consulting company, GrindStone--even though he has been sued for his role in family separations.
Aug 7, 2022 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
1/ I've spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their parents as a way to discourage migration to the United States. Here's my story about how and why it happened, and who's responsible.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…2/ Beyond the answers to those initial questions, I came away with a new understanding of the government processes and procedures that exist to prevent bad policies from being implemented--systems that in this case, were dismantled, disempowered or ignored.