Jacob Soboroff
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
@ms.now Senior Political and National Reporter. Author of Firestorm (2026) and Separated (2020). Executive Producer of Separated, a film by Errol Morris. jacobsoboroff.com
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holding FIRESTORM for the first time. spent 2025 writing about experiencing the L.A. fires. digging deeper. learned so much about what happened, our future and myself. met people I’ll never forget. can’t wait for you to read it. out January 6. preorder: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Zohran Mamdani speaks with Jacob Soboroff on ICE, his closed-door meeting with Trump, and how "surreal" it is to become NYC mayor.
'Prepared' for arrest: Mamdani HAMMERS 'cruel' and 'inhumane' ICE
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December 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Zohran Mamdani speaks with Jacob Soboroff on ICE, his closed-door meeting with Trump, and how "surreal" it is to become NYC mayor.
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TONIGHT: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
December 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
TONIGHT: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
“For the law to have meaning, there has to be accountability for all of us… I think if an ICE agent is breaking the law, then that is a law that they should be held accountable to.”
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“For the law to have meaning, there has to be accountability for all of us… I think if an ICE agent is breaking the law, then that is a law that they should be held accountable to.”
“I told the president that these kinds of raids that we’re seeing here in New York City, they’re cruel and inhumane and they do nothing to serve the interests of public safety."
Mamdani vows to resist Trump's ‘cruel and inhumane’ immigration crackdown
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tells MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff he will hold Trump's immigration officials "accountable" should they target New Yorkers.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“I told the president that these kinds of raids that we’re seeing here in New York City, they’re cruel and inhumane and they do nothing to serve the interests of public safety."
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“To be clear, the Trump administration is targeting a college student’s family because that college student spoke out about the unjust way that she was treated by the federal government." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
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December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“To be clear, the Trump administration is targeting a college student’s family because that college student spoke out about the unjust way that she was treated by the federal government." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
"This is family separation." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vzM...
'This is family separation’: College student deported ahead of Thanksgiving flight home speaks out
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December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"This is family separation." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vzM...
"Not all of us are criminals."
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Not all of us are criminals."
"I wasn't able to let them know that I was going to get deported. I didn't even know I would be deported until I was on the plane."
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"I wasn't able to let them know that I was going to get deported. I didn't even know I would be deported until I was on the plane."
FULL INTERVIEW: I spoke with Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the nineteen year old Babson College freshman who was deported when going home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. "People say we're criminals. It's just not right." youtu.be/UuldnddRc10?...
'Shackled' and 'Handcuffed': Deported college student in tears SPEAKING OUT on ICE encounter
YouTube video by MS NOW
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December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
FULL INTERVIEW: I spoke with Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the nineteen year old Babson College freshman who was deported when going home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. "People say we're criminals. It's just not right." youtu.be/UuldnddRc10?...
holding FIRESTORM for the first time. spent 2025 writing about experiencing the L.A. fires. digging deeper. learned so much about what happened, our future and myself. met people I’ll never forget. can’t wait for you to read it. out January 6. preorder: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
holding FIRESTORM for the first time. spent 2025 writing about experiencing the L.A. fires. digging deeper. learned so much about what happened, our future and myself. met people I’ll never forget. can’t wait for you to read it. out January 6. preorder: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress.
Jonathan White, a longtime civil servant who fought Trump officials’ efforts to separate migrant families, says Democrats must do more to combat the president.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1
“Today, family separations are back, only now they are happening all across the country.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“Today, family separations are back, only now they are happening all across the country.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August
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Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August ~ L.A. TACO
Immigration raids by the numbers, broken down by month, week, and city.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August
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experiencing my hometown burn as a native Angeleno and covering it as a journalist was not possible to process in real time. that’s why I wrote FIRESTORM. I cannot wait to share the book with you on January 6. available for preorder now: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
experiencing my hometown burn as a native Angeleno and covering it as a journalist was not possible to process in real time. that’s why I wrote FIRESTORM. I cannot wait to share the book with you on January 6. available for preorder now: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
“Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, members of at least five formerly separated families have been removed from the U.S. against their will.” www.thecut.com/article/fami...
Separated, Reunited, Now Deported
The Biden administration tried to undo the damage of Trump’s border policies. Now the government is coming for the same families again.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, members of at least five formerly separated families have been removed from the U.S. against their will.” www.thecut.com/article/fami...
if you watch / listen to one thing today let it be @chrislhayes.bsky.social x @eltragon.bsky.social on the ongoing indiscriminate roundup of people across the country by Trump’s armed, masked federal agents. youtu.be/7H4aYsxnH9M
'We’re at the beginning of it' - LA journalist on immigration raids, abuse, lack of due process
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
if you watch / listen to one thing today let it be @chrislhayes.bsky.social x @eltragon.bsky.social on the ongoing indiscriminate roundup of people across the country by Trump’s armed, masked federal agents. youtu.be/7H4aYsxnH9M
“it is bonkers, frankly, when you see [what is happening in Charlotte] yourself.”
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“it is bonkers, frankly, when you see [what is happening in Charlotte] yourself.”
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Jacob Soboroff points out that part of the benefit of the protest training taking place in Charlotte is to defy the narrative that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to use to smear the protests as violent and unruly.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Jacob Soboroff points out that part of the benefit of the protest training taking place in Charlotte is to defy the narrative that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to use to smear the protests as violent and unruly.
there may well be more citizens showing up here in Charlotte to learn how to peacefully resist Trump’s indiscriminate mass deportation effort than federal agents on the ground here, as we saw firsthand last night.
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
there may well be more citizens showing up here in Charlotte to learn how to peacefully resist Trump’s indiscriminate mass deportation effort than federal agents on the ground here, as we saw firsthand last night.
huge turnout in Charlotte tonight for @siembranc.bsky.social’s “Safe to Work, Safe to School” training for people who want to learn how to protect their neighbors from Trump’s mass deportation effort.
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
huge turnout in Charlotte tonight for @siembranc.bsky.social’s “Safe to Work, Safe to School” training for people who want to learn how to protect their neighbors from Trump’s mass deportation effort.
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
Sacramento right now. Huge turnout.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Sacramento right now. Huge turnout.
voted. now headed to Sacramento for special Election Night coverage on @msnbc.com. hope you’ll join us.
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
voted. now headed to Sacramento for special Election Night coverage on @msnbc.com. hope you’ll join us.