This is a select list of the stories and investigations I have done for radio, podcast and online outlets over the last few years.
Interview with Peter O'Dowd on NPR's Here & Now....
An adaptation from our new book, Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance. Read more at the Guardian....
Most religions teach people to help those in need. But what happens when that mandate clashes with how the government views the law?...
An excerpt of Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance in High Country News....
Interview with David M. Davies on Texas Public Radio's The Source....
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right....
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Valeria Fernández and Jude Joffe-Block about their reporting on Marisol Mendoza, who has been in ICE detention since 2016 and now has COVID-19. Read More At NPR...
Marisol Mendoza has Covid-19. She’s scared she will die, alone, in an isolation cell of the immigration detention center where she’s been held for the past four years. Read more at The Guardian...
Anibal Ramirez left Guatemala as a child and had only lived in Oakland for less than two years when he became the city’s youngest gun homicide victim in 2017 at just 13 years old. Read more...
Three days after ICE claimed in court filings that there were no longer any active or suspected COVID-19 cases in an Arizona immigration detention facility, four more detainees tested positive....
Rodrigo Martínez was certain he had a fever. Gasping for air, he said, felt like breathing pepper. It burned. Read more at Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting...
As the plane descended into Guatemala City, María tried to calm her six-year-old niece. “Mami, I feel like I’m falling,” the girl told her from the window seat next to her. María, 26, was scared...
For the last three weeks, 57-year-old Ann O’Connor has avoided leaving her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a cancer survivor with asthma, she is considered high...
For more than nine months, María, 23, has been waiting in an immigration detention center in Arizona hoping to reunite with the six-year-old niece she raised as a daughter. When the two asked for...
The six-year-old girl on the other end of the line tells Alexa she fears they will never be together again. In another 15-minute phone call, she questions if Alexa still loves her. She asks Alexa...
By Marta Vázquez’s count, since Christmas she’s welcomed 306 newly arrived Central American parents and their children to spend the night at her house in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona....
As Ana Chavarin cleaned strangers’ homes, scrubbed dishes in restaurants and vacuumed offices at night as an undocumented immigrant in Tucson, she craved an education....
Yael Balbuena is one of more than 200 immigrant high schoolers, college students and their allies, who visited Arizona’s state Capitol this week to tell lawmakers about the obstacles facing...
More than 5,600 active duty troops are now in place along the border in Texas, Arizona and California, and that number is expected to grow to more than 7,000, according to US Northern Command,...
College-educated Americans are increasingly uninterested in teaching jobs – so Arizona has begun to recruit from abroad....
Samuel became one of an unknown number of non-criminal unauthorized immigrants wrongfully detained by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies from 2011 to 2013...
If convicted, the former sheriff—now 85—could spend up to six months in prison....
He was voted out of his Maricopa County office in November but now faces his own legal troubles — a criminal trial begins Monday in which he is accused of ignoring a federal judge's order to...
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio goes on trial starting Monday for contempt of court. Arpaio is a controversial figure in Arizona for his strict anti-immigration policy enforcement. Read more at NPR...
Arizona’s Santa Cruz County on the Mexican border is what Republican operative Sergio Arellano jokingly calls “Democrat heaven.” Only 16 percent of voters are registered as...
Most races for sheriff are low-profile, relatively low-budget affairs. Not so in Arizona’s Maricopa County, where Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for his seventh term. Read More at NPR...
Since Border Patrol agents discovered her lost in the desert last summer, she has done everything the government has asked of her so far, including showing up three times to immigration court....
Some U.S. banks are closing the accounts of certain customers along the Mexican side of the border. It's part of an effort to stay in line with U.S. anti-money-laundering regulations, but it's...
U.S. Supreme Court precedent still allows Border Patrol agents to factor in someone's "Mexican appearance" when deciding who to pull over and question – as long as that is not the only reason...
Women preparing to cross the border often ask pharmacist Maria Jaime Peña the same question: “What can I do in case I’m raped, and I don’t want to get pregnant?” Story begins at 1:50 Read...
