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Maanvi Singh

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Immigration Reporter @us.theguardian.com Reach out: [email protected] Signal: maanvisingh.42

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 7d

The recent separations echo the “zero tolerance” policy of the first Trump administration, when the US systematically separated more than 5,600 migrant children from their parents and caregivers at the US-Mexico border.

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Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 7d

In several cases, officials have retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation orders by separating them from their children, a Guardian investigation found.

The officials misclassified the children as “unaccompanied minors” before placing them in government-run shelters or foster care.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 7d

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure.

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 7d

The Trump admin has revived the practice of separating families in order to coerce immigrants & asylum seekers to leave the US, attorneys & former immigration officials allege

From @maanvisingh.bsky.social

In several cases, officials have retaliated against immigrants who challenged...

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 8d

Our latest in our Ice Air investigation is by @oliverlaughland.bsky.social, which tells the story of one family's deportation, including two US citizen children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation

Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 7d

In April, the Trump admin deported “Rosario” & her two US citizen children, one of whom is being treated for stage 4 kidney cancer.

The case drew national and international attention. Rosario shares her story for the first time with @theguardian.com - another chapter in our Ice Air investigation:

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation

Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 9d

In the first Trump administration, systematic separation of immigrant families was shut down due to public pressure. Now the practice has returned. Here is our latest in the Ice Air series, a heartbreaking look at family separation 2.0 by @maanvisingh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

www.theguardian.com

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 8d

The latest in the @us.theguardian.com investigations team work on deportations: family separation

@maanvisingh.bsky.social reveals how the admin is coercing families into giving up, by forcing them to give up their kids if they want to fight their deportations

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

www.theguardian.com

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 8d

Family separation 2.0 is here.

Officials retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation by forcibly separating them from their kids. They classified the children as “unaccompanied minors” before placing them in government-run shelters or foster care.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

www.theguardian.com

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15d

Ya está disponible este artículo en español, Traducido y publicado por @elpais.com: elpais.com/us/migracion...

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 21d

👽 🛡️ 👑 🤘🏼 ⚔️ 🥷 🚂 🏛️ 🍓

Those are emojis the FBI, NYPD, CBP and US Army have said could be signs of affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang + part of their “code language”, internal records show.

“Just like tattoos, we could see folks rounded up + tortured based solely on their use of certain emojis”

Revealed: US law enforcement claimed emojis could signal Tren de Aragua affiliation

Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor

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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 21d

BIG: US law enforcement claims certain *emojis* could signal Tren de Aragua gang membership, leading to deportations, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained & shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @maanvisingh.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: US law enforcement claimed emojis could signal Tren de Aragua affiliation

Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor

www.theguardian.com

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 28d

In this second installment of the Guardian's investigation,
@oliverlaughland.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social & @raimaamjad.bsky.social
look at Alexandria, Louisiana – a key deportation hub. One detainee said the this was "just not a place for human beings”

Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear

A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long s...

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 29d

NEW: We’ve spent the past 4 months investigating a detention center on the tarmac of a rural airport in Alexandria - a legal “black hole” & Trump’s deportation hub

We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:

Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear

A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long s...

www.theguardian.com

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here's the flight path for José Manuel Ramos Bastidas, another Venezuelan asylum seeker deported to El Salvador.

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · Sep 10

Andry Hernández Romero – the Venezuelan makeup artist deported to a Salvadoran megaprison – was one of several detained immigrants I interviewed. Here's his chaotic path across the US. When Andry boarded these flights, no one would tell him where exactly he was going. (Illo by Andrew Witherspoon)

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Sep 10

Excellent reporting from The Guardian.
Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

www.theguardian.com

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · Sep 10

For immigrants in the system, these chaotic transfers can feel like a punishment, Faisal Al-Juburi of @raicestexas.bsky.social

“You end up in a continuous state of unknown for an indefinite period of time,” he said. “Families are being put into a purgatorial state.”

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · Sep 10

GlobalX carried out more than 1,700 flights for Ice, the vast majority of them between domestic US airports. For many immigrants, the flight paths were long, with multiple legs and layovers. Nearly 3,600 people were moved around repeatedly, forced to board five or more GlobalX flights.

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · Sep 10

A team of us (including @skirchy.bsky.social , @oliverlaughland.bsky.social , Raima Amjad) looked at leaked records from Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX), the charter company that operates most deportation flights for ICE, & interviewed detained immigrants, attorneys, and former officials.

Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · Sep 10

We analyzed leaked data for rare look at the winding journeys of more than 44,000 immigrants detained or deported by the Trump administration... and found that people are being moved around in unprecedented and irregular ways. w/ @wcraft.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · Sep 10

We are launching a new investigation today, which reveals new details about Trump's deportation program. Our first story is by @maanvisingh.bsky.social and @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · Aug 27

Border patrol agents arrested Catalina Santiago, granted temporary protection as a Dreamer, on 3 August.

“They have no legal basis for why they detained her or why they’re holding her or why they’re trying to deport her,” said her spouse, Desiree Miller.

Immigration advocates alarmed over detention of Daca recipient: ‘No legal basis’

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jul 23

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · Jul 23

Unreal visualizations of what the ICE deportation and detention machine has looked like under Trump from @maanvisingh.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social & Andrew Witherspoon www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...