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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/07/2026
ProPublica and @texastribune.org learned that allegations made by a man once ordered to pay libel damages were among the reasons Texas investigated Islamic private schools applying to the state’s voucher program.
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How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools
A man was ordered to pay libel damages after calling the head of an Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.” Years later, he made similar claims against Islamic private schools applying for Texas’ ...
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perla-trevizo.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at El Paso's Camp East Montana. New records paint a portrait of what doctors told me amounts to "systemic neglect" and a model of how such moments compound with dire outcomes. 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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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 30/06/2026
Perla Trevizo has been a reporter for 20 years. “I’ve been very, very lucky that I haven’t had to go through layoffs in my entire time as a journalist,” she said. “I hope to keep it that way.” We need job security protections to keep doing this work over the long haul: www.propublicaguild.org
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 25/06/2026
“All workers deserve wages that at least keep up with inflation, because anything less is just a pay cut in disguise,” reporter Paul Kiel says. As inflation continues to rise, our contract must reflect this reality.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 25/06/2026
As ProPublica’s IT support specialist Penny Serrano puts it: “We're just simply asking for a contract that reflects those values — and not just in words but also in wages.” Help us ensure fair pay for all our workers: www.propublicaguild.org
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 23/06/2026
Management says they won’t replace us with AI. But “we’re gonna need that in writing,” says reporter and ProPublica podcast host Jessica Lussenhop. Here’s how you can support our fight:
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 23/06/2026
“I have heard from our managers at ProPublica that they don’t intend to replace us with AI. And that’s great. But we’re gonna need that in writing.” This is why we’re fighting for protections against artificial intelligence:
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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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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 04/05/2026
Huge congratulations to all our current and former members who won or were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes today! All journalists deserve a fair contract that provides the job security necessary to do this work. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...
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2026 Prize Winners and Finalists | The Pulitzer Prizes
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 05/05/2026
Yesterday, our members chanted and marched through @propublica.org’s NYC office demanding a fair contract now. We delivered a stack of more than 4,000 petition signatures and 300 comments from our supporters to management.
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Gerardo del Valle @g-dvalle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A year into Trump's mass deportation push has left viral videos, memes, a dramatic increase in funds for immigration enforcement, and thousands affected. With @perla-trevizo.bsky.social , we asked: what's the toll? My latest for @propublica.org youtu.be/YHunuGIvvf4
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A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/02/2026
NEW: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are tracking the increase in these cases 👇
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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
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perla-trevizo.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
So far this year, immigrants are filing on average more than 200 habeas petitions daily across the country arguing that their detention is unlawful. The Western District of #Texas leads the country with 1,300+ filed in the last three months, @ProPublica found. www.propublica.org/article/habe...
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More Immigrants Are Challenging Their ICE Detention Than Ever Before
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Tru...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/01/2026
NEW: The Trump administration is directing USDA employees to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” By @lisalsong.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A new directive asks USDA workers to check backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists. Their names are being sent to security experts. One critic called it a “throwback to McCarthyism. By my @propublica.org colleagues www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 24/12/2025
“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have upended industry.
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South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/12/2025
We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities. Here's how to reach out:
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Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases
Have you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, par...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/12/2025
From the day we began publishing in 2008, ProPublica has pursued a clear mission: We hope to write stories that are so grounded in verifiable facts, they spur real-world changes in behaviors, policies or laws. Fuel journalism that makes an impact: propub.li/4aX9AP9
Text on graphic: Independent journalism that makes an impact. Thank you for fueling our work.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 03/12/2025
It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
And just little more context from me: I spent years reporting on body-cams. (I know.) Here's a piece I did for @propublica.org and the New York Times Magazine on how law enforcement has often undermined the promise of them: www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Last week, a federal judge ordered immigration agents in Chicago to use body-cams: "That is not a suggestion." Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him* They had body-cams -- that weren't on I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
4/ Some ICE officers on the scene reacted emotionally to the incident. One said: “What the fuck?” Another told me: “This is a real problem.“
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
2/ Journalist L. Vural Elibol and other photographers apparently wanted to understand why ICE agents were following a woman into a public elevator. As they tried to enter the elevator, a supervisor from the ICE team at the New York Field Office shouted, “Get out the fucking elevator!”
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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Aliyya Swaby @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
In rural Tennessee, 16 middle schoolers waiting for cheerleading practice to start made a TikTok video seeming to role play a school shooting. The sheriff's office charged every single one with a crime. www.propublica.org/article/soci...
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Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.
Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crac...
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perla-trevizo.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you for having me and for sharing our work.
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perla-trevizo.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
For months, we had been talking with Carmen, Lina and Doris about the void their sons' detention in #ElSalvador had left. They wondered whether they were eating, if they were cold. Were they alive? Following the men's release, these families sat with us to talk about what they lived through.
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“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
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Gerardo del Valle @g-dvalle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We published their stories as part of an effort to understand - when neither the U.S. nor Salvadoran governments had released the names of the men sent to CECOT - who these men were, and why they had been sent to the infamous prison. projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
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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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Gerardo del Valle @g-dvalle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
What @perla-trevizo.bsky.social , @micarosenberg.bsky.social , @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social , and a group of Venezuelan journalists from @cazadoresdefakenews.info and Alianza Rebelde Investiga uncovered was chilling:
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perla-trevizo.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Watch three of the more than 230 men the Trump administration sent to #ElSalvador talk about the moment they arrived at #CECOT, how they say the guards tortured them and beat them daily: youtu.be/6KZRtCE2UcI from ‪@g-dvalle.bsky.social‬ and the entire team @propublica.org‬ and in Venezuela.
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Beatings, Humiliation, Psychological Abuse: What Venezuelan Men Experienced Inside CECOT
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs. What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
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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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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
My colleagues @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social at @propublica.org (a “liberal rag hellbent on defending violent criminal illegal aliens”) with another haunting installment of their series on men deported to CECOT: www.propublica.org/article/vene...
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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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stevemmills.bsky.social @stevemmills.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW: If you want to know what happened to the men Trump sent to a Salvadoran prison, we have their accounts. From an amazing @propublica.org team that included @perla-trevizo.bsky.social, @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, @micarosenberg.bsky.social and so many others. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
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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 · 23/07/2025
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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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 23/07/2025
If you have any information about these men. You can help us continue our reporting here. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Do You Have Information About the CECOT Deportations? Help ProPublica Report.
If you have information about the deportation operation or the immigrants who were deported, we want to hear from you.
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 23/07/2025
In March the Trump administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, calling the men “some of the most violent savages on the face of the Earth.” @propublica.org went looking for the truth to their stories — one by one.
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 23/07/2025
Please take spent some time with this project that @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and so many other have been tirelessly working on for the past four months. It's important on so many levels.
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Reporting by @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me Also available in español, aquí: www.propublica.org/article/vene...
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Ahora que están libres, los hombres venezolanos quieren que el mundo sepa lo que soportaron en el CECOT
Los hombres venezolanos deportados por la administración Trump afirman que sufrieron meses de abusos físicos y psicológicos en la prisión salvadoreña. Aunque están felices de estar de vuelta en casa, ...
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perla-trevizo.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
For months we've written about the Venezuelans the #Trump administration sent to #CECOT. Now, they get to tell their own stories, how the U.S. ended up labeling them terrorists and their torture in #ElSalvador via @propublica @texastribune.org @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga.
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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 · 18/07/2025
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...
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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 · 18/07/2025
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 · 18/07/2025
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 · 18/07/2025
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 · 18/07/2025
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 · 18/07/2025
My colleague @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social was in court the day one man, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra, was supposed to make his final asylum case before a judge, but he wasn’t there. He had been whisked away days earlier to El Salvador 3/
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A 🧵/ More than 60 of the men imprisoned in El Salvador had pending asylum claims and some were just days away from final hearings, my colleague @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social found by examining immigration court data and internal government records we obtained 2/
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Today we published our 2nd story in an investigation into the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to El Salvador. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
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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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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Reporting by me, @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and our Venezuelan partners at Cazadores de Fake News and Alianza Rebelde Investiga
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Aquí en español: www.propublica.org/article/vene...
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Vino a EE.UU. para pagarle el tratamiento a su hijo enfermo. Lo detuvieron. Luego desapareció.
Como la mayoría de los más de 230 venezolanos deportados a una prisión salvadoreña, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas siguió las normas de inmigración estadounidenses. Pero Trump cambió las reglas.
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