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...

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-...

Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections www.propublica.org/article/doj-...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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.