Jazmine Ulloa

“My friend told me to be careful because they are squarely picking up everyone, simply for having a Hispanic face.” Immigrant workers in DC say they find themselves at the center of two crackdowns: one on crime, another on illegal immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

Before his immigration check-in, Kilmar Abrego Garcia delivered an emotional plea to immigrants and the immigrant rights community. “Regardless of what happens here with ICE, promise me this that you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity — not only for me but for everyone,” he said.

Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.

Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Chicago. @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks to pastors, activists, and lawyers about what’s really going on in the city and what their response should be. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Federal cases challenging the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps could redefine the limits on the discretion officers have to stop, question and detain people over their citizenship and how much race and ethnicity can factor in those decisions. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

This line in this NYT Mag piece about the LA Dodgers and the nation’s immigration crackdown… “He was a shy 19-year-old who spoke almost no English when he was brought up to the Dodgers in September 1980, attributes that today might land him in the back of an ICE van.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/m...

Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens, by @jesus-jimz.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Our Chicago bureau chief was out for a run near Lake Michigan, when she watched a black S.U.V. make a U-turn and chase down three young men. It’s a scene now unfolding across the city every day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Four months ago, Yessenia Ruano put her home in Wisconsin up for rent, packed a few bags and left for her native El Salvador. Now, she is among immigrant women who say ICE is wrongfully detaining and deporting domestic violence or human trafficking victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

For decades, the United States tried to push undocumented people to self-deport. Success has often depended on coercion. I wrote a short history of the long shadow of self-deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

The first review for my book is in, and I got the coveted star from Kirkus! So deeply honored and over the moon. What a summary: “A passionate and urgent account that transforms the embers of a bypassed history into flames that consume the present.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

A majority of voters favor deporting those in the U.S. illegally, but say President Trump’s tactics have gone too far, a new Times/Siena poll found. w/ Ruth Igielnik www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

In his mass deportation campaign, President Trump has sought to end humanitarian programs that have allowed people from troubled nations to live and work temporarily in the US. The most litigated: Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. Here’s a look at who still has it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...