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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: This story by Avi Asher-Shapiro and Jeff Ernsthausen and me looks inside several tent companies push to cash in on the Trump administration's deportation campaign and how they hired a consultant with ties to Tom Homan who would become the border czar www.propublica.org/article/tom-...

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23d

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29d

With all the news about the ICE raid on Hyundai's plant, its worth remembering how parts suppliers to the massive car company were using child labor in the U.S. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Undocumented and Underage

Reuters reveals the widespread, illegal use of child workers at plants supplying Hyundai and Kia in the United States. After exposing underage labor by migrant minors at chicken plants in Alabama, reporters uncovered how children worked assembling parts for the Korean carmakers around the state, leading to rescues and government investigations.

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Aug 22

An important heartbreaking story by Avi Asher-Shapiro and @chrisbing.bsky.social about the real world consequences of mistakes made by DOGE that put the lives of innocent people in Afghanistan at risk

ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 22

NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison.

They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Moving essay by Adriana Loureiro Fernández who photographed some of the Venezuelan men the Trump administration deported to prison in El Salvador and their families. Our investigation found the government knew the majority had not convicted crimes in the US when they were sent away.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 19

NEW: Over the past four months, I documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions.

This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen

Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men,…

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Aug 6

Powerful testimonies of some of the Venezuelans who endured four months of imprisonment in El Salvador after being deported from the United States. youtu.be/6KZRtCE2UcI?...

Beatings, Humiliation, Psychological Abuse: What Venezuelan Men Experienced Inside CECOT

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway

@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 30

We spoke to nine Venezuelans deported to prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration who told us about the abuse and mistreatment they endured there. Our latest ⁦
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Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT

Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 25

An important installment in our ongoing reporting on the companies angling to make a windfall on the Trump administration’s plan to massively, expand immigration detention by my colleagues @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/nath...

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.

Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

You can look through our full database here and reach out if you have information to share 10/:
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is the result of a big team of journalists and editors in the US and Venezuela @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social Ronna Rísquez, Adrián González, Adriana Núñez Moros, Carlos Centeno, Gabriel Sandoval, Jeff Ernsthausen, Ruth Talbot, Cengiz Yar, Zisiga Mukulu and more 9/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

We are also publishing our database in Spanish 8/:
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Los hombres que Trump deportó a una cárcel salvadoreña

El 15 de marzo, el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump envió a más de 230 inmigrantes venezolanos a una cárcel de alta seguridad de El Salvador. La semana pasada, fueron liberados con la misma premur...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

We asked the Trump administration about each of the men. The White House and DHS did not respond to questions about the individuals but said Trump is committed to "removing dangerous criminal and terrorist illegals who pose a threat to the American public.” 7/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

We spoke to the families of more than 100 of the men; those men range in age from 18 to 46. They and their families are now dealing with the fallout of being jailed incommunicado in a foreign prison for four months and enduring harsh treatment 6/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Trump said they were all part of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. How were they identified? We found at least 166 of the men have tattoos, though the admin said they didn’t only rely on tattoos to label them. Experts told us that tattoos are not an indicator of membership. 5/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our analysis of U.S. immigration court data found nearly half of the men, or 118, were in the middle of their cases, including dozens with asylum claims, and some were only days away from a final hearing, which should have protected them from deportation. 4/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

We looked at each case and learned: the Trump administration knew at least 197 had not been convicted of U.S. crimes and only a handful had violent offenses. We identified a few additional convictions, both in the U.S. and abroad, not reflected in government data we obtained. 3/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today, we’re publishing a first-of-its-kind interactive database with profiles of 238 of the Venezuelan deportees. These are their stories. 2/
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst."
But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

A DHS spokesperson defended the deportations: “They may not have criminal records in the U.S., beyond breaking our laws to enter the country illegally, but many of these illegal aliens are far from innocent.” Read for yourself what we found out. 9/: www.propublica.org/article/vene...

He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.

Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Trump administration has said all those sent to El Salvador were members of a feared Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and invoked a law from the 1700s to interrupt their cases and deport them but has yet to release evidence to support those claims against each man. 8/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

We corroborated those findings working with Venezuelan colleagues Ronna Risquez from Alianza Rebelde Investiga and Adrián González, Cazadores de Fake News and more reporters to interview relatives and lawyers of more than 100 deportees and gathered hundreds of pages of court and police documents 7/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

Previously we reported, based on internal government data we obtained, that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan deportees imprisoned in El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes 6/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
We found that more than 50 of the Venezuelan deportees had used a government app when they crossed the border. Others had turned themselves in to border agents. 5/

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

More than 100 men had been ordered deported but believed they would be sent back to Venezuela. My colleague @perla-trevizo.bsky.social obtained the video of one man, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas, who showed documents he said proved the U.S. promised to send him home. Then, he disappeared 4/

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