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National investigative reporter @USATODAY. Previously: @MiamiHerald immigration reporter, @Reveal, @nytimes, @bostonglobe, @dallasnews. Signal: 305.407.6080
May 31, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
.@CBP is deploying officers and agents to cities nationwide in response to recent violent protests.

Sources close to the operation tell me they are responding to demonstrations today in Miami-Dade and Broward. @MiamiHerald It's unclear whether officers would be checking people's immigration status.
Jul 8, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
#Breaking: @SunTrust bows out of the private prison and detention industry.

Weeks ago @BofA_News exited, following @jpmorgan and @WellsFargo.

BOA and Suntrust were the two biggest financiers for the Homestead detention center. @MiamiHerald SunTrust specifically mentions “immigration holding facilities.”

Other banks danced around specifying what types of detention facilities their withdrawal would affect.
May 11, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
THREAD: This is why it's so important to know who you read. Below is a completely plagiarized copy of my @miamiherald article in the "Driscoll Register" that's been floating around FB. It says it's been written by a Lisa Richards just yesterday.
driscollregister.com/they-pushed-tr… This is almost exactly THREE months after my article was published. Richards and/or the publication was so lazy that they didn't even change the headline. Here is it verbatim.
miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
Apr 8, 2019 4 tweets 3 min read
I’m here at the Homestead shelter for unaccompanied minors. The government denied three congresswomen access to the facility, but they came anyway. Waiting to see if they let them in. @MiamiHerald . @DonnaShalala, @RepDMP and @DWStweets have arrived. Here’s what they told the guards. @MiamiHerald