Uriel J. García
@ujohnnyg.bsky.social
Immigration reporter at the Texas Tribune in El Paso
www.urieljgarcia.com
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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 said.
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 5:41 PM
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 said.
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Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly (Gift Article)
The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Excellent feature by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social for the @texastribune.org
A Houston mother held by ICE must choose: indefinite detention or be deported without her family
Margarita Avila, a Houston mother of nine, was detained by ICE after an altercation that led to no charges. Her close-knit family weigh their futures if she is deported.
www.texastribune.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Excellent feature by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social for the @texastribune.org
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NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
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"'José' is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn’t know their anti-Latino history." @gustavoarellano.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com
Commentary: 'We're all just a bunch of Josés': Vance's dig at Padilla is a new low
“José” is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn't know their anti-Latino history.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"'José' is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn’t know their anti-Latino history." @gustavoarellano.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com
Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.
June 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.
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As deaths mount, New Mexico’s border counties and state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it.
by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
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by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
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Deaths in the New Mexico desert surge after Texas' border crackdown reaches El Paso • Source New Mexico
From January 2023 to August 2024, 299 human remains were reported in the El Paso sector, the most of any sector along the southern border.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As deaths mount, New Mexico’s border counties and state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it.
by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
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by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
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Reposted by Uriel J. García
As deaths continue to mount, New Mexico’s border counties & state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it.
by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...
by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
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Deaths in the New Mexico desert surge after Texas' border crackdown reaches El Paso • Source New Mexico
From January 2023 to August 2024, 299 human remains were reported in the El Paso sector, the most of any sector along the southern border.
sourcenm.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
As deaths continue to mount, New Mexico’s border counties & state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it.
by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
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by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social
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I spoke to teenagers about why kids are role playing as ICE agents, staging raids on “illegals” within the game, and the mass anti-ICE protests that have also broken out within the game www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...
June 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I spoke to teenagers about why kids are role playing as ICE agents, staging raids on “illegals” within the game, and the mass anti-ICE protests that have also broken out within the game www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...
After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...
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After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged
Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.
www.texastribune.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...
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"[F]ederal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to [MS-13] as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes and reduced homicide rates."
#USA #ElSalvador #Deportation #Incarceration
#USA #ElSalvador #Deportation #Incarceration
“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…
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June 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"[F]ederal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to [MS-13] as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes and reduced homicide rates."
#USA #ElSalvador #Deportation #Incarceration
#USA #ElSalvador #Deportation #Incarceration
The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low.
www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...
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U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.
www.texastribune.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low.
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Last month, ICE announced that it had arrested 48 people in a sweep in New Mexico. But local & state officials, and immigrants-rights advocates, can’t get any information about who was arrested or where they are. What actually happened? My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
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April 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Last month, ICE announced that it had arrested 48 people in a sweep in New Mexico. But local & state officials, and immigrants-rights advocates, can’t get any information about who was arrested or where they are. What actually happened? My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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NEW: The DC Circuit has DENIED the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Boasberg's halt on the use of the Alien Enemies Act! The decision is 2-1, with Trump appointee Judge Walker dissenting on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the lawsuit should have been brought in Texas.
March 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NEW: The DC Circuit has DENIED the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Boasberg's halt on the use of the Alien Enemies Act! The decision is 2-1, with Trump appointee Judge Walker dissenting on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the lawsuit should have been brought in Texas.
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“‘Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than what has happened here,’ D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Millett said during a hearing at the court on Monday.”
Judge contends Nazis got more due process than Trump deportees did
The fight over the rarely used wartime power has become central to Trump's immigration crackdown agenda and his efforts to stretch the powers of the executive branch.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“‘Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than what has happened here,’ D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Millett said during a hearing at the court on Monday.”
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After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decided it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for the mass shooter who in 2019 killed 23 people in a local Walmart and said he wanted “to shoot as many Mexicans as possible.”
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After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decides it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for mass shooter
The new DA campaigned on seeking the death penalty for the 2019 massacre, but said he offered the gunman a plea deal of life in prison to avoid dragging out the case for several more years.
www.texastribune.org
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decided it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for the mass shooter who in 2019 killed 23 people in a local Walmart and said he wanted “to shoot as many Mexicans as possible.”
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Texas lawmakers have filed dozens of bills that could further cement the state’s role in immigration enforcement — long the sole responsibility of the federal government — should they become law.
here's a primer on some of the proposals w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social -->
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here's a primer on some of the proposals w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social -->
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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-legislature-immigration-bills/
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March 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Texas lawmakers have filed dozens of bills that could further cement the state’s role in immigration enforcement — long the sole responsibility of the federal government — should they become law.
here's a primer on some of the proposals w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social -->
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here's a primer on some of the proposals w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social -->
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ICE said 118 people were arrested during an operation Monday in Colony Ridge outside of Houston but only released information about one of the arrests. ICE has not responded to requests for a list of the names, ages and charges against those who were arrested.
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More than 100 arrested in Colony Ridge immigration raids, ICE says
The development outside of Houston has long drawn the ire of Texas Republicans who claim it’s a haven for undocumented people.
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February 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
ICE said 118 people were arrested during an operation Monday in Colony Ridge outside of Houston but only released information about one of the arrests. ICE has not responded to requests for a list of the names, ages and charges against those who were arrested.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/25/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/25/t...
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The owners of a South Texas bakery were arrested and charged with harboring undocumented workers, a relatively rare incidence of federal agents pursuing business owners for allegedly employing undocumented immigrants.
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February 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The owners of a South Texas bakery were arrested and charged with harboring undocumented workers, a relatively rare incidence of federal agents pursuing business owners for allegedly employing undocumented immigrants.
via @beregarcia.bsky.social
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In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.”
"The border has been secured,” he declared.
Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...
"The border has been secured,” he declared.
Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...
Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas
Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook.
www.texastribune.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.”
"The border has been secured,” he declared.
Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...
"The border has been secured,” he declared.
Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...
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Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death
The 27-year old Spanish-language reporter died while on assignment to cover the Super Bowl in New Orleans, less than a year after his wife's death. The couple leave behind a toddler.
www.latimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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UPDATE: Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd”
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February 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
UPDATE: Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd”
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ICE has updated the timestamp for many old enforcement action press releases, allowing them to top internet search results
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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
ICE has updated the timestamp for many old enforcement action press releases, allowing them to top internet search results
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Here's the letter, which is also posted on the district's website
February 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Here's the letter, which is also posted on the district's website