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Lomi Kriel
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Investigative reporter @texastribune.org Prior: @propublica.org
@houstonchronicle.com @reuters.com, etc. Polk Award winner, Pulitzer finalist. Immigrant, proudly 🇿🇦. 📧lkriel@texastribune.org or Signal/Whatsapp 832-729-3421. Tell me stuff.
4) I won’t be far :) As a statewide investigative reporter @texastribune.org I’m excited to continue digging into many issues I’ve been covering for ~2 decades in TX. Cell/Signal/Whatsapp remains 832-729-3421, 📧 lkriel@texastribune.org. Say hi at Tribfest! festival.texastribune.org/event/c17d2d...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
3 ) Since being a founding member of our unit, I’ve investigated the impact of new immigration policies & Medicaid unwinding, TX lawmakers’ hypocrisy on E-Verify, and debunked Gov. Abbott’s claims of success for his multibillion border security program.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas’ Governor Brags About His Border Initiative. The Data Doesn’t Back Him Up.
Arrests of U.S. citizens hundreds of miles from the border. Claiming drug busts from across the state. Changing statistics. We dug into the data Texas leaders use to boast about Operation Lone Star, a...
www.propublica.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
2) Partnering with @frontlinepbs, we also made a Murrow award-winning documentary about the failed police response, which families + first responders told us helped them understand what happened (local + state authorities still refuse to answer most q's)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBof...
Inside the Uvalde Response (full documentary) | FRONTLINE + @ProPublica + @texastribune
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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November 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reposted by Lomi Kriel
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. But the farmworker visa that allowed her to come to the U.S. legally ended up being a trap. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
projects.propublica.org
September 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Reposted by Lomi Kriel
In one, the child says that her parents [in Guatemala] recently received a strange call from someone with the US government, telling them that he or she would be deported with a larger group of people.

"Since my parents told me this news, I feel terrible," the declarant says.
August 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Lomi Kriel
The government has argued that the children are simply being reunited with their parents. But Sooknanan reads from a series of declarations that seem inconsistent with that claim.
August 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM