Black farmworkers in Mississippi lost their jobs to white South Africans brought to work in the cotton fields. In interviews and in a lawsuit, the workers said they had trained their replacements, who were paid more. Pics by the great @sbmaney_
nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/… 2/Black families in the Mississippi Delta have toiled in the fields since the time of slavery. Richard Strong, whose grandparents and father worked on the same farm where he worked for 24 years, made $7.25 an hour; the South Africans flown in on worker visas earned more than $11.

1/NEW: A mother-daughter reunion 7 years after mom immigrated to the U.S. to support her family back in Guatemala. Read about Melissa, 11, among the unaccompanied minors crossing the border to be with their parents again. Evocative pics by Mark Abramson. nytimes.com/2021/05/09/us/… 2/About half of the children traveling alone to the United States from Central America have a parent or family member awaiting them. As an undocumented immigrant, Ana couldn't just pay to put Melissa on a plane. So she hired a coyote to bring her child to the doorstep of America.

NEW: It was one of the worst border crashes in decades. The 25 people in the S.U.V., 13 lives lost, are a tragic portrait of the migration that is overwhelming the U.S. government. My reconstruction of what happened w amazing photography by @adrehsler nytimes.com/2021/04/04/us/… They hoped to trade poverty, aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, for a measure of prosperity in the U.S. But to cross the border, they had to hire smugglers for thousands of dollars. They would pay "the fee" for passage with sweat equity, doing jobs many Americans shun.

No immigrant detention centers in our backyard, voted a town that is home to many undocumented farmworkers. nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/… McFarland’s farmwokers, many of them longtime residents, organized to oppose immigration detention centers in their midst. it’s a stunning rebuke to a multi-billion dollar for-profit prison operator.

Ken Cuccinelli, a hardliner running a key immigration agency, told a hearing that he made the decision “alone" to end medical deferred action for critically ill immigrants. His agency on Aug. 7 informed hundreds of immigrants receiving life-saving medical treatment that they could not stay in the country & could be deported.

A 13-year-old girl hung herself because her dad couldn’t make it across the border. It was his 3rd try; she had lost all hope. w @cegoldbaum nytimes.com/2019/07/17/us/… via @NYTimes Heydi's dad had left her in Honduras to be raised by grandparents and come to work in the U.S. But when his father was gunned down by gangs, Manuel returned to Honduras. He then sent his daughter to N.Y. for safety. She won asylum. But when he tried at the border, he was denied.

NEW! Employers across the country panic over the potential loss of immigrant workers after the Trump administration sends out 577,000 Social Security no-match letters nyti.ms/2HtPtce The Trump administration revived a practice of informing employers when the Social Security Administration detects a mismatch between the name and Social Security number of a worker.

NEW: Undocumented workers get the job done at President Trump's golf club. My story about who makes his bed, waters the greens and more. Right here: nyti.ms/2E5ovaE A few months ago, an undocumented immigrant named Victorina Morales decided that she wanted to share her story about working for Donald Trump

She was deported without her son and has no idea when they will reunite. Read about this separation in my article here: nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/… Elsa Ortiz was sobbing heavily as she climbe the steps to the plane that was taking her and other deportees to Guatemala. Without her son. “Please don’t put me on the plane,” she pleaded. “I can’t go without my son.”