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Mica Rosenberg

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I am an investigative reporter at ProPublica focused on immigration. Reach out with tips or information you think should be brought to our attention! Email: mica.rosenberg@propublica.org Phone: 332-213-1365 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/micarosenberg

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A ProPublica analysis of court records from more than 70,000 habeas cases filed since Jan '25 found some judges take far longer than others to resolve cases as federal courts have adjusted unevenly to the unprecedented flood of filings by @carla-astudi.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 27/08/2026
Disturbing trend: Local jails are rebooking immigrants in an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. @propublica.org's nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusually high numbers of rebookings. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.
Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu...
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New podcast version of incredible reporting on an immigration raid in Chicago - with a helicopter - that wasn't what it seemed. By my colleagues @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social Sebastian Rotella @tchristianmiller.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social + others tinyurl.com/ymvbduna
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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a dramatic midnight raid. We uncovered a very different story.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Don’t miss this outstanding story: Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters, by @peterelkind.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social @dougbockclark.bsky.social @kbmorales.bsky.social and Andy Mannix
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Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Join my @propublica colleagues and I today <Tuesday> at 4 pm ET as we discuss the impacts of expanded immigration enforcement on children and families. Sign up here: events.propublica.org/trump-deport...
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ProPublica Event: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026
We found that thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 kids were doused with chemical agents. 🗓️ On July 21, join us for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: propub.li/4fiHDSF
Text: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Crackdown: Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Tuesday, July 21. 4 p.m. EST. Register at propublica.org/events. Events supported by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation. Image: A woman walks a young boy down a dimly lit hallway with blue walls.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Come join my colleagues and I on July 21 for a virtual discussion about how stepped-up immigration enforcement is affecting children and families: events.propublica.org/trump-deport...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Must Read: The Trump administration is working directly with a powerful Venezuelan leader under investigation for an alleged political killing in Chile. www.propublica.org/article/chil...
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He’s Suspected of Hiring a Venezuelan Gang for a Political Killing. Trump Officials Still Work With Him.
Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile. The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerf...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2026
NEW: Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.
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Amid Mounting War Casualties, Pete Hegseth “Defunded and Impeded” Efforts to Protect Civilians, Lawmakers Say
Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When 18-year-old Elder Chavez was pulled over for going 15 mph over the limit, he tried to show officers docs the US govt granted him after his parents abandoned him in Honduras and he crossed the border alone. He was put in ICE detention anyway. 🧵 1/ www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A must read story by Mr colleague @perla-trevizo.bsky.social about what happened at the sprawling tent detention center on a military base in ElPaso: “He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis. www.propublica.org/article/camp...
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“He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis.
Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana. Records paint a portrait of how the Texas facility’s staff failed to adequately respond.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
CYMI: JD Vance was recently handed a letter @ProPublica published back in February. The letter, written by a 7-year-old detained at the Dilley facility said: “I don’t feel good in this place … I hope to leave here soon.” 1/ youtu.be/yssQNtyxkDk?...
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JD Vance CONFRONTED with letter from detained child
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/06/2026
Inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence victim began collecting others’ stories of abuse. 156 women answered her call. Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work? Listen to the full episode:
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Convicted of Killing Their Abusers, These Women Got Another Chance at Freedom
A new law gave people sentenced for the murders of their abusive partners a rare pathway to freedom. That wasn’t the end of the story.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is a stunning an infuriating story. Oil billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand, a major Trump donor, is set to reap the benefits of EPA roll backs on methane releases that play an outsize roll in climate change. Society as a whole will deal with the environmental costs.
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perla-trevizo.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We are hoping to capture the experiences of seniors across the country. If you could please share with your networks or reach out to us directly, we would greatly appreciate it!
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ms. Rachel taking letters from children detained at the Dilley immigrant detention center in south Texas -- some of them first published by @propublica.org -- to lawmakers www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Ms. Rachel goes to Washington, carrying letters from children in ICE custody
The children’s media star is urging lawmakers to end family detention and reunite the kids and parents who had been separated by ICE enforcement.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A new GAO report details “millions of dollars of waste” and several serious incidents at an ICE tent detention camp in El Paso, Texas: a detainee who died after an officer used force, a detainee suicide, and a detainee with tuberculosis housed with the general population www.gao.gov/prerelease/d...
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U.S. GAO - Immigration Detention: Waste and Performance Issues at Camp East Montana Provide Valuable Lessons for Future Facilities
ICE has increased its enforcement efforts and expanded detention capacity since January 2025. The Army and ICE opened ICE's largest facility—Camp East...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
So proud of this work - including our reporting on the Venezuelans deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Response to reporting by my colleagues @lisalsong.bsky.social and Maya Miller www.propublica.org/article/lawm...
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U.S. Lawmakers Demand Reforms to Immigration Officers’ Use of Tear Gas and Pepper Spray
A ProPublica investigation found that scores of children were hurt by these chemicals during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Lawmakers say the findings show more restrictions are neede...
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A new episode of "Paper Trail" is LIVE — this one is the backstory of @ctmirror.org's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into a towing industry scandal with an assist from @propublica.org's Local Reporting Network. I attempt a joke at the top. Be nice about it: www.propublica.org/podcast/conn...
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How to Lose a Car in 15 Days
When two local reporters heard drivers were having their cars towed and then sold in as little as two weeks, they teamed up with ProPublica to investigate.
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Delighted and shocked to learn last night that we won a National Magazine Award for some of our immigration reporting - including our story on how the Venezuelan men Trump sent to a Salvadoran prison were tortured, and on the dramatic midnight raid in Chicago. 😃 www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
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ProPublica Wins National Magazine Award for Public Interest
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A new report used census data to estimate that more than 100,00 U.S. citizen kids had an immigrant parent detained since Trump took office in January. Brookings’ analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on detentions, which can lead to family separation www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s rep...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NEW: @ProPublica has launched a podcast, hosted by @jlussenhop.bsky.social! Give the trailer a listen, send to your families and friends, warn the enemies of the good and the true, like and subscribe. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Paper Trail
News Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Investigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. That evidence can be on paper — or on thumb drives, in secret recordi...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
These weapons are toxic, especially to children, who breathe more rapidly, pulling in more contaminated air than adults relative to their body weight. --> my latest, with @mayatmiller.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🎥 WATCH: ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigate the violence, protests and arrests stemming from the federal immigration sweeps across the country. "Caught in the Crackdown" premiered Tuesday, April 14 at 10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT on PBS and online. propub.li/4t9gZkF
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Caught in the Crackdown | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
Watch FRONTLINE and ProPublica's documentary tracing the violence, protests and arrests stemming from federal immigration sweeps across the United States — from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
So proud that our colleagues and partners work was nominated for two 2026 News and Documentary Emmy Awards including a film version of our reporting on Venezuelans sent by the US to be imprisoned in El Salvador last year www.propublica.org/awards/news-...
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News and Documentary Emmy Awards, Two Nominations
Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Following reporting by ProPublica and others, multiple celebrities have signed an open letter demanding that the Dilley family detention center be shut down. “No child should be locked in an immigration detention center,” the letter begins. 1/ variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Pedro Pascal, Madonna, Mark Ruffalo and More Demand ICE Facility for Children Shut Down, Sign Open Letter: ‘Children Belong in Schools. Not Detention Centers’
Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo and more Hollywood names are fighting to close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Trump Called My Neighbors “Paid Agitators.” This is Who They Really Are.
After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbo...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
NEW: This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January. The shift follows weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread publication of letters written by detained children. www.propublica.org/article/fami...
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The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted
This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January. The shift follows weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread publ...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NEW: The Dilley family detention facility disabled video calls on tablets after detainees’ call recordings were shared on social media, according to a document viewed by ProPublica. 1/
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 17/03/2026
The Trump administration turned vast expanses of federal land along the southern border, like this stretch in southern New Mexico, into national defense areas, but their attempts to prosecute "trespassers" are floundering in court. @propublica.org reports: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So honored by this recognition of our reporting -- that was a real team effort -- about kids in family immigration detention.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It was in this trove of documents that Avi Asher-Schapiro and Jeff Ernsthausen and I found how Tom Homan grew his net worth before returning to government and helped reveal his and a senior advisor's connections to companies vying for DHS contracts www.propublica.org/article/tom-... ...
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ICYMI my colleagues @perla-trevizo.bsky.social and @g-dvalle.bsky.social in this video broke down the unprecedented immigration moves by the Trump administration in its first year www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
Skyrocketing detentions, violent arrests, troops in cities. President Donald Trump promised an immigration crackdown that would make history. One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immi...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Citing reporting by @propublica.org and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/
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End Child Detention Letter with signatures Feb 26 2026
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Christian wanted people to know what immigrant families like hers were going through inside the Dilley detention center, so she gathered dozens of letters and hid them in her jacket. She and others told me and @mckenziefunk.com its becoming harder to speak out www.propublica.org/article/dill...
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I met Maria Antonia inside Dilley in mid-Jan where she had been detained for four months. She told me she was on her way to Disney World when immigration agents intercepted and interrogated her in the airport and sent her and her mom to detention www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/02/2026
📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas. Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind. Read more: propub.li/4toqME6
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Letters from some of the children I spoke to at the Dilley family detention centers being read in Congress
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICYMI another must read by my colleagues
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Important read: I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o... via @NYTOpinion
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Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
An informative and devastating video about the incredible reporting by my @propublica.org colleagues on the deadly consequences of the dismantling of USAID youtu.be/G7TeKNU_Dps?... via @YouTube
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What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Powerful dispatch from my colleagues www.propublica.org/article/minn...
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What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
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