Mica Rosenberg
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
I am an investigative reporter at ProPublica focused on immigration. Reach out with tips or information you think should be brought to our attention!
Email: mica.rosenberg@propublica.org
Phone: 332-213-1365
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/micarosenberg
Email: mica.rosenberg@propublica.org
Phone: 332-213-1365
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/micarosenberg
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NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
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We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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In the first half of this year, the income of President Trump's family business soared 17-fold to $864 million, based almost entirely on new crypto ventures that have been a magnet for overseas cash, a Reuters investigation found.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In the first half of this year, the income of President Trump's family business soared 17-fold to $864 million, based almost entirely on new crypto ventures that have been a magnet for overseas cash, a Reuters investigation found.
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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
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'Nothing to Go Back to': How Climate Change Is Driving Migrants From Their Homes to NYC - Documented
New data shows how climate disasters correspond with migration to the United States.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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...
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...
Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Investigation Into Border Czar and Contracts Following ProPublica Report
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center has called on the Homeland Security inspector general to investigate potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations by border czar Tom Homan and his senior...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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-...
Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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-...
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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
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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
Ancil Payne Reporting Fellowship
New York City, United States
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September 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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
@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...
Undocumented and Underage
Reuters reveals the widespread, illegal use of child workers at plants supplying Hyundai and Kia in the United States. After exposing underage labor by migrant minors at chicken plants in Alabama, reporters uncovered how children worked assembling parts for the Korean carmakers around the state, leading to rescues and government investigations.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison.
They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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.
NEW: Over the past four months, I documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions.
This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.
This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men,…
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August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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?...
Beatings, Humiliation, Psychological Abuse: What Venezuelan Men Experienced Inside CECOT
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August 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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?...
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Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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July 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
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
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Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...
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July 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
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An important installment in our ongoing reporting on the companies angling to make a windfall on the Trump administration’s plan to massively, expand immigration detention by my colleagues @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/nath...
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
An important installment in our ongoing reporting on the companies angling to make a windfall on the Trump administration’s plan to massively, expand immigration detention by my colleagues @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/nath...
You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst."
But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵
But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst."
But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵
But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵
Today we published our 2nd story in an investigation into the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to El Salvador. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.
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July 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today we published our 2nd story in an investigation into the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to El Salvador. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
A must read story by my @propublica.org
colleagues. The IRS is building a vast system to share tax records with ICE and just last month the immigration enforcement agency requested the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
colleagues. The IRS is building a vast system to share tax records with ICE and just last month the immigration enforcement agency requested the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A must read story by my @propublica.org
colleagues. The IRS is building a vast system to share tax records with ICE and just last month the immigration enforcement agency requested the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
colleagues. The IRS is building a vast system to share tax records with ICE and just last month the immigration enforcement agency requested the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This Wednesday a discussion with my @propublica.org colleagues about the rapidly evolving reality immigration enforcement in the U.S. events.propublica.org/immigration-...
ProPublica Event - Inside the Growing Architecture of U.S. Immigration Enforcement
How the government’s aggressive immigration crackdown is reshaping the lives of migrants.
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June 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This Wednesday a discussion with my @propublica.org colleagues about the rapidly evolving reality immigration enforcement in the U.S. events.propublica.org/immigration-...
How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13 How - important story / Sebastian Rotella and T. Cristian Miller www.propublica.org/article/buke...
“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....
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June 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13 How - important story / Sebastian Rotella and T. Cristian Miller www.propublica.org/article/buke...
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NEW: Megan Twohey and I went deep on Elon Musk’s intense drug use as he rose to political power alongside Trump last year. He was using so much ketamine that he told people it was affecting his bladder. At SpaceX, he is getting warnings ahead of drug tests www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
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May 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NEW: Megan Twohey and I went deep on Elon Musk’s intense drug use as he rose to political power alongside Trump last year. He was using so much ketamine that he told people it was affecting his bladder. At SpaceX, he is getting warnings ahead of drug tests www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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...
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
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May 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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...
Current and former officials told @lomikriel.bsky.social and I that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompanied migrant children, is becoming an enforcement arm and at the same time the Trump administration fired the agency's first ombudsman www.propublica.org/article/offi...
An Agency Tasked With Protecting Immigrant Children Is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say
The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s welfare mission appears to be undergoing a stark transformation as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportation numbers, current and former officials told P...
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May 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Current and former officials told @lomikriel.bsky.social and I that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompanied migrant children, is becoming an enforcement arm and at the same time the Trump administration fired the agency's first ombudsman www.propublica.org/article/offi...
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
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-...
ICE Awarded a $3.8 Billion Contract to Hold Immigrants on a Military Base. Days Later, It Was Canceled.
The administration still intends to move ahead with the plan to build a tent detention camp at Fort Bliss, sources said. It’s a job that promises to be highly sought after as Trump officials plan to p...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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-...