Immigration reporter @TexasTribune. Contact me at [email protected]
El Paso, TX
Joined June 2009
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Migrants who planted roots in Texas are being swept up in the immigration crackdown. Here are five of their stories.
Some detained Texans were pursuing pathways to stay here legally. None had criminal convictions.
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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip.
The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century.
But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵
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New this week: FEMA has denied a request for federal aid to individuals needing help after the July 2026 floods in Texas.
The decision comes as the Trump administration has shifted expectations to states to play a bigger role in disaster recovery.
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BREAKING: New Mexico sues Jeffrey Epstein's attorney and accountant, accusing them of concealing his sex trafficking operation. apnews.com/article/epstein-n…
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Don’t throw away your “I voted” sticker. Give it to someone who can’t vote. Your immigrant parents. Your immigrant neighbor. Let them know that they are not alone and that we will keep fighting for them ❤️.
We will keep fighting until there’s justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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JUST IN: A federal judge in California has barred DHS from conducting field interrogations of people they identify as potential noncitizen voters based on data sources that have proven unreliable and could improperly identify citizens. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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True to their word, DHS is seeking a stay in the Big Bend wall injunction case from SCOTUS, calling the lower judge's decision "baseless" supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…
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Something I find really interesting in the Big Bend wall injunction case –– the gov't has quietly shifted from insisting that the Big Bend is "an area of high illegal entry" urgently in need of wall to a long-term view, where no wall means it's vulnerable to future border crime
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When Mississippi went to SCOTUS to overturn Roe, AG Lynn Fitch represented the state invoking her "pro-life" values. She is embraced as a "pro-life" hero and is now justifying the murder of a 1-year-old Black infant named Kohen Wiley:
Mississippi's attorney general says a Senatobia police officer was justified in the June shooting death of a 1-year-old boy while responding to a shoplifting call. The conclusion of the state's investigation follows months of mourning and calls for justice. cnn.it/4z0O5X6
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A Maryland woman’s husband died in ICE custody. She wants answers.
Hospital records say 47-year-old Julian Curo Churata died of “cardiac arrest” because of “septic shock.”
GIFT ARTICLE
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The 56-year-old Mexican man who died Saturday while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody was a lawful permanent resident in the country, the agency said in a statement a day after The Texas Tribune reported about his death.
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New via @acolleendg + @alexnguyen2311 + @ujohnnyg:
A man from Dallas who died at an ICE detention facility in Laredo over the weekend was a lawful permanent resident in the country. His cause of death remains unknown + Webb County ME conducting an autopsy.
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IMPACT: Citing ProPublica, Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Help U.S. Citizens Sue ICE for Wrongful Detentions propublica.org/article/ameri… @nicoleMfoy
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Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, who died while in ICE custody on Saturday, was a lawful permanent resident.
ICE said he was detained bc he failed to disclose a 2004 arrest for theft while applying - but his daughter says he did.
@TexasTribune
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I co-represent professors Maryam Tahmasebi, Eissa Hashemi, and their minor son, who have been detained by ICE for 192 days, despite committing no crime. Maryam has started journaling, and sharing what life is like for her and son at Dilley. Follow here:
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Yesterday morning, Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias was found dead a Laredo federal immigration facility.
He was 56, a Dallas resident, and father of three US citizens.
His daughter told us that his health problems were ignored by staff.
w/@alexnguyen2311
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A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning, his daughter and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, confirmed to The Texas Tribune. bit.ly/3WxOC4d
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Here in the Big Bend, locals have been complaining to Texas regulators about border wall "man camps."
But a @MarfaRadio investigation found the Trump admin's waiver of federal laws has hindered the state's own response to the complaints. From @mkcant: marfapublicradio.org/news/20…
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#Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has used executive orders and disaster declarations to shift funds, suspend regulations and award no-bid contracts without going through the state Legislature.
He declared a #border emergency for the 69th time in September. propublica.org/article/greg-…
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While proposed border barriers in natl & state parks have gotten much-deserved attention, one of the biggest landowners on the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas is the @TXGLO. I dug into where the GLO and Commissioner Dawn Buckingham stand on border wall construction on state land. (1)