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Suzanne Gamboa
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I am a veteran reporter with NBC Latino/NBC News/NBCNews.com covering Latinos, politics, news, a proud Chicana with roots in Texas and Mexico and a big fan of the right to vote.
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The unemployment rate for Black people in the U.S. was 8.3% in November and for Hispanics or Latinos, it was 5%.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Tearful parents of Camp Mystic flooding victims plead for tougher safety measures
August 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Tariffs and deportations seen as contributors to rising prices and fewer immigrant workers
August 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Immigrants who are crime victims and waiting for visas now face deportation
Immigrants who applied for U visas, reserved for victims of certain crimes who agree to help authorities, are no longer protected from deportation and fear for their future.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell puts an uncomfortable spotlight on this prison camp town in Texas
Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator was transferred from Florida to Federal Prison Camp Bryan as part of her 20-year sentence for helping to recruit and abuse teenage girls.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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DHS restarts third-country deportations with flight to Eswatini
July 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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How the deadliest hours of the devastating Texas floods unfolded
July 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Supreme Court curbs injunctions that blocked Trump's birthright citizenship plan
June 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Attorneys challenge immigration arrest, detention of child treated for cancer
June 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Jacob Soboroff on X: "House Oversight Ranking Member @RepRobertGarcia calls detention of landscaper Narciso Barranco, father of three Marines, "disgraceful." "You can rest assured that the Oversight Committee is going to ensure that we hold these folks accountable." https://t.co/2OgRzINUiI" / X
House Oversight Ranking Member @RepRobertGarcia calls detention of landscaper Narciso Barranco, father of three Marines, "disgraceful." "You can rest assured that the Oversight Committee is going to ensure that we hold these folks accountable." https://t.co/2OgRzINUiI
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June 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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New NBC News podcast: open.spotify.com/show/2gXjYWG...

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Podcast · NBC News · "Here’s the Scoop" is your new favorite evening podcast from NBC News. In each daily episode, our rotating hosts, Yasmin Vossoughian, Morgan Chesky and Brian Cheung, will cut thro...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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How raids at Ambiance Apparel and Home Depot led to the L.A. protests
June 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Those from the countries in Trump's travel ban say they're confused and angry about what comes next
The travel ban goes into effect Monday, leaving many to fear a future in which they can't visit family or loved ones are unable to escape dire circumstances in their home countries.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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So much in this story from @suzgamboa.bsky.social:

--A US-born citizen was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed & detained in an immigration raid after his REAL ID was dismissed as fake

--Family are trying to find a lawyer but local ones have told them that it's nearly impossible to sue...
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
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May 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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After a month of searching, man learns from NBC News that DHS sent his brother to El Salvador
A Venezuelan man says he and his family back home have been anguished about the "forced disappearance" from the U.S. of Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel.
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April 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Texas Senate to consider bill that could reshape how history and race are taught in state universities www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t... via @texastribune.org
Texas Senate to consider bill that could reshape how history and race are taught in state universities
An overhauled version of Senate Bill 37 would also allow anyone to file complaints that could lead schools to lose funds.
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April 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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IRS to share info with ICE about some undocumented immigrant taxpayers
The Department of Homeland Security has sought to use tax filing information to find people in the U.S. without legal status in support of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Loving the shoe leather reporting in this story by my colleague Curtis Bunn with NBCBLK, www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Sneaker designers, retailers and collectors brace for Trump's tariffs
Small-business owners and sneaker enthusiasts are equally upset about the increase in costs.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Trump administration is reviewing how its national security team sent war plans to a magazine editor
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said he seemed to have been inadvertently added to a Signal thread about U.S. plans to strike Houthis in Yemen.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Lawyers and advocates say 48 people are unaccounted for after ICE raid in New Mexico
An attorney for the ACLU in the state said community advocates were “on the verge of tears” Monday because they had little to no information on the people who were arrested.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Immigration accounted for all U.S. population growth in 2022-23, first time since 1850
The U.S. immigrant population grew by 1.6 million people while birth rates dropped, though the share of those who are foreign-born is slightly below the share in 1890.
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March 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A Trump critic just won Greenland's election. But the White House may still benefit.
The victory of two pro-independence parties may be taken as a positive in Washington, where interest in the mineral-rich island has leapt in President Trump's second term.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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House narrowly passes six-month funding bill as shutdown deadline nears
The measure’s fate is uncertain in the Senate, where several Democrats will be needed to cross the 60-vote threshold for it to pass.
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March 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Immigrant couple to get $80K in damages from former landlords who threatened to call ICE
A judge found that a pair of Chicago landlords violated Illinois state law when they threatened to call federal immigration authorities on former tenants.
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March 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Border Patrol slashed tires, detained legal residents in 'fishing expedition,' lawsuit alleges
The operation led to arrests and removals of people regardless of citizenship or status, a recent lawsuit against Homeland Security and Border Patrol alleges.
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March 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM