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Jacob Soboroff
@jacobsoboroff
@MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent. Author of Firestorm (2026) and Separated (2020). EP of Separated, a film by Errol Morris.
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Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Studying the science of wildfire with @NASA means you get to set one yourself. We got an exclusive look inside the FireSense mission, part of an Earth Science program at risk due to potential Trump administration budget cuts. Our @nbcnightlynews report: nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v… The fire of the future could see scientists fighting blazes. More from our days of reporting with multiple federal agencies -- including NASA, DOD and USDA -- who make FireSense possible in our @TODAYshow report: today.com/video/how-nasa…
Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t… A Bureau of Land Management official involved in hiring said, “The level of stupidity and negligence here is enraging.”

“What if there’s nobody to show up? How many people died with garden hoses in their hands?” the person said.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
Mar 11, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Very sorry to hear the @latimes shut its Olympic Printing Plant after 30 years. I toured it in 2007, when I was vlog-reporting for @laobserved. It was amazing and everyone was so welcoming and kind, as you can see. More here:
Feb 24, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
South Carolina’s remarkable economic growth is changing the electorate. We went inside BMW’s massive plant (where I took a mallet to a $200K car), and to West Greenville, where the Black population has declined as prices force residents out, to learn more. “Within the next five years, I believe this neighborhood won’t be recognizable by those who once knew it.”

Read more about West Greenville in the @gvljournal here. greenvillejournal.com/news/one-house…
Nov 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ll be anchoring another @NBCNews special report about the rise of antisemitism in the United States.

Tonight at 10:30PM on @NBCNewsNow.

I hope you’ll join us. I shared more info this morning on @TODAYshow about “Epidemic of Hate: Antisemitism on the Rise.”
Feb 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Six years ago, Trump officials held a Valentine's Day meeting in which deliberately separating migrant kids from parents was proposed. Thousands ultimately were.

Two years after creating a task force to reunite them, Biden's DHS says over 600 have been, but 998 remain separated. Biden admin's task force, led by @MichelleBrane, says the "number of new families identified continues to increase, as families come forward and identify themselves as separated under the previous administration’s zero-tolerance policy." dhs.gov/news/2023/02/0…
Dec 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
This was a truly remarkable story to report and thing to witness. Researchers at @Stanford think they may have discovered a remarkable breakthrough when it comes to treating Parkinson’s patients — and it’s as simple as putting on a pair of gloves. Here’s where people interested in being a part of the study by @peter_tass can find more information: med.stanford.edu/tass-lab
Sep 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: Your “legal” pot might be cultivated by victims of labor trafficking at black market grows, as we saw in the Mojave Desert. It’s something now happening across the country. The first of our two @NBCNightlyNews reports. More from our @NBCNews exclusive: Raids on black market cannabis farms uncover human trafficking victims.

With @AarneHeikkila, Mitch Koss, @julialeereports and @aliciavlozano. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r…
Jul 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Parents of 168 kids deliberately separated from parents by Trump *still* have not been reached, according to latest court filing about the search.

➡️ Parents of 117 were likely deported.
➡️ Parents of 48 are likely in the U.S.
➡️ No phone number for parents of three kids. Filing also updates number of reunifications made by Biden Family Reunification Task Force at 390.

Also says 2,043 people affected by Trump's separations have been giving temporary permission to stay in the U.S.

Biden admin has said as many as 1,000 families remain separated.
Jul 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Just found out this live report from Haiti in which we spoke with a family who'd just been expelled to danger like thousands by the Biden admin, and UN's chief of mission, has been nominated for an Emmy. Thank you @newsemmys, plus @MSNBC and @NBCNews for supporting the reporting. Special thanks to @AarneHeikkila, J.B. Rutagarama, Rob Colvill and Handy Tibert -- our team on the ground. Plus our colleagues stateside @BetsyNBCNews, Mitch Koss, @GeoffRBennett and the team at @KatyOnMSNBC who got us on the air for this live report.
Jun 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Joe Biden, 2018: “A policy that separates young children from their parents isn't a ‘deterrent.’ It's unconscionable... It's abhorrent.”

Biden DOJ, June 2022: “The Family Separation Policy as plaintiffs have stated it never really existed.” Biden admin argued officials deposed in civil case brought by separated families can’t be asked about 2017 Valentine’s Day meeting where Trump admin floated separations and instructed several witnesses not to answer. Judge disagreed, saying deliberative meetings are relevant.
Jun 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Just-released emails show Trump official felt separated kids were being reunited *too fast* and complained.

“This obviously undermines the entire effort and the Dept is going to look completely ridiculous,” wrote ICE’s Matt Albence.

Via @mariasacchetti. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06… It’s so, so important to point out that it’s now the *Biden DOJ* opposing families separated by Trump in court.

Here’s what Biden DOJ said in court June 2, per families’ lawyers: “the Family Separation Policy as plaintiffs have stated it never really existed.”

Sound familiar?
Jun 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
It’s working — stopping people from dying of overdose in New York City — and has done the same around the world for decades. Listen to every word of what what the Marine Corps vet told me as he was injecting fentanyl under supervision — that the care here was better than at the VA.
May 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
As I said on @TODAYshow, my dad @SteveSoboroff has been a Big Brother for 54 years and two of my siblings have been “bigs.” This massive donation by @mackenziescott will help so many of the tens of thousands on the @BBBSA waitlist be paired with a mentor — please volunteer. "And this is an opportunity for us to help kids and help that career path and also help our companies, communities and our country to really think about a talent pipeline.” today.com/news/good-news…
May 22, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
"Haiti became the first and only country where the descendants of enslaved people paid the families of their former masters for generations... [that money] would have added $21 billion to Haiti's economy over the last two centuries." nytimes.com/interactive/20… Meanwhile, Biden admin continues to expel asylum-seeking Haitians, many of whom haven’t been in the country in years, back to Haiti. That’s despite knowing the dangers they face there — something we saw firsthand during the admin’s record-setting blitz of expulsions last fall.
May 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW: DHS pushing Biden admin to ask Congress for supplemental spending bill to respond to record migration. That includes, documents show, funding for family reunification task force to find and reunite families separated by Trump. With @JuliaEAinsley. nbcnews.com/politics/immig… Three DHS officials told NBC News that the need for more funding has been voiced in recent meetings with White House officials, including one late last week and one early this week.
Apr 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Here’s what it looks like for the thousands of Ukrainians who’ve been crossing into U.S. from Mexico. We followed a family as they waited less than a day. As @eeerox points out they’re getting special treatment from Biden admin no other group gets. What accounts for the differing treatment of Ukrainians and nonwhite migrants at the U.S. border with Mexico? At a different shelter I visited with @eeerox the same day, one Mexican asylum seeker fleeing violence put it simply to me: "racism."
Apr 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Parents deliberately separated from their kids by Trump experience "severe psychological trauma four years later," per new @P4HR report calling for "reparations and rehabilitation" from U.S. "due to its violations of domestic and international law." phr.org/our-work/resou… The Nobel-winning group calls on Biden admin, whose DOJ pulled out of global settlement negotiations with families seeking monetary damages for enduring what @P4HR says met definition of "torture," to "provide redress through prompt, fair, and adequate monetary compensation."
Mar 31, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: We went inside a grassroots effort by one of Ukraine's largest book publishers, @The_OldLion, to get books -- what they call "a piece of home" -- to refugees who have fled the war.

You can donate here: starylev.com.ua/news/support-u… Learn more: today.com/parents/parent…
Mar 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: We met two of the thousands of Ukrainian Holocaust survivors as they were evacuated from Kyiv. "What does Russia want from us? I don't understand this," Natalia, 82, told me after she was rescued. Borys, 87, told me it feels "disgusting" having to flee for his life again. Last week: Holocaust survivor, 96, killed in Ukraine after Russian forces shell apartment. nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna2…
Mar 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Recap of the Saturday night missile strikes here in Lviv. “I think with these strikes, the aggressor wants to say hello to President Biden who is in Poland, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Lviv, mayor Andriy Sadoviy said at a news conference as an air raid siren sounded overhead. “The threat is very serious.” nytimes.com/2022/03/26/wor…