Mica Rosenberg

NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

ICE awarded, and promptly canceled, a $3.8 bln contract for an immigrant tent detention camp on a Texas military base. The move came days after @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Shapiro and I profiled the company that won it. The project is being re-bid www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants to Guantanamo Bay. Perla Trevizo and I identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Columbia Journalism Investigations/Documented found a pattern in this striking investigation by Jazzmin Jiwa and Carla Mandiola that found tens of thousands of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last year came from places repeatedly hit by climate disasters documentedny.com/2025/10/22/c...

Following our story with Avi Asher-Shapiro and @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social on Border Czar Tom Homan, his senior advisor and connections to a consultant helping firms vying for immigration detention contracts, an ethics watchdog is calling for an IG probe: www.propublica.org/article/bord...

Hugely important story by my colleague Nicole Foy who found more than 170 cases US citizens being arrested by immigration agents. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned but read about these cases and judge for yourself... www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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-...

Come join us @propublica.org We are hiring an investigative reporting fellow in Washington D.C. for a two-year position to cover the ever expanding world of immigration news. Apply here! grnh.se/dpwvle3d6us

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...

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

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.

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?...

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 ⁦ www.propublica.org/article/vene...