Investigative reporter covering the Southwest @propublica. Author of THE HUNT - available 11/10/26.
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Thrilled to be joining the best investigative newsroom around covering what I consider the most fascinating and dynamic region in the country.
Border militarization, environmental conflict, Indigenous affairs and more. Tips welcome. propublica.org/atpropublica/…
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New: Contractors erecting a second border wall along the southern boundary of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona have bulldozed a path for equipment, uprooting plants and unearthing Native American remains. propub.li/4zmKUci
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It's been standard practice for DHS secretaries to waive NAGPRA (a law that, among many other things, requires surveying for Indigenous remains on federal land and penalizes damaging them) since the Bush administration. The human consequences of this policy are playing out in AZ
NEW: Tribal leaders have warned for months that the Trump administration’s rapid construction of a second border wall on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument would disturb Native American remains.
They were right.
On Sept. 8, remains were found in the vicinity of wall construction.
Lorraine Eiler, a Hia-Ced O’odham elder with family members buried on the monument, expects more to come.
“They’re going to find remains wherever they dig,” she told @propublica.
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Finally had the chance to read this extraordinary piece on the impact a single police officer partnered with ICE had on a small Texas town.
Amazing reporting, make time for it.
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Hours after a judge ruled in favor of the Trump administration, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security posted a meme of one of the Star Trek supervillains known as “the Borg.”
“RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,” it read.
propublica.org/article/tohon…
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very good story by @rdevro ->
Despite assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found the government has turned its vast security and surveillance apparatus against the Tohono O’odham Nation.
“The drones flying over us all day,” one tribal member said, “it’s a lot.”
propublica.org/article/tohon…
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Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol.
A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall.
The tribe was warned: Do not interfere.
propublica.org/article/tohon…
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This @rdevro piece paints a striking picture of what it feels like when “the Wall” shows up in a community — many people I’ve talked to experience it as this bewildering sudden siege, an unstoppable swarm. The fact that this is happening to members of a sovereign nation …
On Aug. 25, at 4:59 a.m., Jose received word that a construction convoy was en route to conduct tests for the coming wall.
Tribal officials could observe but could not intervene, a Border Patrol chief warned.
The work would begin in one minute.
propublica.org/article/tohon…
Tomorrow, DHS is slated to begin uprooting thousands of saguaro cacti on the Tohono O’odham Nation, marking the first step in what could become the Trump administration’s most contentious border wall battle yet.
The tribe is condemning the plans in the strongest possible terms.
Yesterday, we published an investigation detailing the backstory of the standoff, and revealing the pervasive surveillance directed at a tribal prayer camp organized in opposition to the project.
READ MORE ⬇️
propublica.org/article/tohon…
In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever.
It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today.
THREAD ⬇️
The archive — coupled w/ photos, videos and firsthand observation — reveals escalating surveillance of the prayer camp before, during and after the Aug. 25 DHS incursion, offering a glimpse at what might come should tribal resistance to the wall grow.
propublica.org/article/tohon…
