Investigative reporter covering the Southwest @propublica. Author of THE HUNT - available 11/10/26.
Tucson.
Joined March 2009
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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
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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…
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The Tohono O’odham Nation sued to stop a wall from being built on their land. In federal court, DHS gave assurances that the government would engage with the tribe in good faith. It didn’t feel that way on the ground. propublica.org/article/tohon… @rdevro
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MUST READ: As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones propublica.org/article/tohon… @rdevro
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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens.
We are.
500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term.
Our tally is almost certainly an undercount.
THREAD ⬇️
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NEW: A 45-year-old Venezuelan man in ICE custody died in Georgia on Monday after being denied his medication, his sister and advocacy groups said.
Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was the fourth person to die in an ICE-related incident this week.
ICE officials confirmed the death of Arenas-Silva, who was arrested last Thursday. During his arrest, his family said they pleaded with officials to allow him to take his medications. They allowed him only one. Then Arenas-Silva called his sister to tell her ICE didn't give him his medication.
"He went without medication during his detention until he tragically died in ICE custody on Monday,” advocates said.
Story:
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This story is INSANE theintercept.com/2026/04/10/…
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Friday was my last day at Rest of World. I'm grateful to @mvzelenks for bringing me onto his ace team and for the cool stuff I worked on (links below).
Hiring managers: Reporters tell me I'm a pretty great editor, and I'd like to keep editing investigations or other enterprise.
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In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.” interc.pt/3O5sv1a
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A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.
A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.
New from us at the Post: washingtonpost.com/investiga… @JohnWoodrowCox
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Fire, represented by its avatars, coal, oil and gas, is our superpower, and we can almost be forgiven for believing that we’ve mastered it. But we glossed over a crucial detail: we aren’t the only ones being supercharged . . .
theguardian.com/us-news/2025… #lafires #lafires2025
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I was writing about layoffs and then my husband @petermaass got laid off by @theintercept and then I finished writing my piece about what we can do to save the media... jacobin.com/2024/02/us-media… @econhardship @doctorow @rushkoff @jacobin
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The hardest part of getting laid off has been seeing my mentors get laid off too. Rashmee was the glue that held our newsroom together. She was everywhere at once. A patient, thoughtful, kind manager. Led TI’s singular coverage of the Hindu far-right & its ties to U.S. politics
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My excellent adventure at The Intercept is over, I was among those laid off. What a ride! Wrote on huckster generals & genocide denialists (hello Stan McChrystal & Peter Handke), edited Jeremy Scahill & Masha Gessen, oversaw security for reporters in warzones. Give me a shout 😀
