Uriel J. García
@ujohnnyg.bsky.social
Immigration reporter at the Texas Tribune in El Paso www.urieljgarcia.com
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/06/30/t...
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to end birthright citizenship
The court’s ruling means children born to undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will continue to be citizens/will no longer receive automatic citizenship.
texastribune.org
“At no moment were the agents in front of the vehicle." “Cornered." “Lorenzo stopped the van, the officer shot him anyway.” Court filings detail accounts of deadly Houston ICE shooting contradicting officials w/ @alexnguyen.bsky.social @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/07/21/t...
ICE shooting passengers say agents rammed van before firing
The newly-released, handwritten statements by two men who saw Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting say he never threatened ICE agents.
texastribune.org
ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters: Federal agencies are using children as 'bait' to detain sponsors, leaving kids in shelters for months. By @ujohnnyg.bsky.social & @alexnguyen.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/07/21/t...
ICE arresting relatives trying to take custody of migrant kids
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.
texastribune.org
We keep children in prison to bait their guardians into leaving the US. We use paperwork to cover it up. Excellent reporting that matches what I've seen in Texas and Arizona from @ujohnnyg.bsky.social @alexnguyen.bsky.social and Apurva Mahajan.
José Orta@orta69.bsky.social · 2w ago
In far West Texas, the threat of land seizures for a border wall has families on edge “It’s just something that’s been happening for generations, people coming in and trying to take land and families fighting to keep it." www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...
Feds threaten land seizures for border wall in Big Bend area
In the Big Bend region, where some families have lived for generations, government letters seeking access to their land is sparking fear and resistance.
texastribune.org
After some time off, I'm back to immigration reporting. Send tips, info to uriel.garcia@texastribune.org or Signal: ujohnnyg.83
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...
propublica.org
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/...
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.
nytimes.com
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.
texastribune.org
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:
'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...
wired.com
"'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.
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.
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 sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...
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
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...
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
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...
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.
texastribune.org
"[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
“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…
propublica.org
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...
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.
texastribune.org
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.
newyorker.com
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.
“‘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.
npr.org
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.” via @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/03/25/t...
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.
texastribune.org
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 --> t.co/mMUxY4HMik
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-legislature-immigration-bills/
t.co
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...
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.
texastribune.org
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 www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...
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...
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.
texastribune.org
Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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.
latimes.com
UPDATE: Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd” www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...
Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd”
The chief’s comments came after Alice ISD sent a letter to parents Wednesday warning students may be detained and possibly deported if they can’t prove they’re in the country legally. The letter was l...
texastribune.org
Uriel J. García@ujohnnyg.bsky.social · last yr.Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...
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...
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
theguardian.com
