Emily Bregel
@emilybregel.bsky.social
Border/immigration reporter Arizona Daily Star ebregel@tucson.com On Signal: emdashbregs.28
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
A Phoenix man from Egypt has spent the last three months confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after ICE deported him there without warning. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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Good. If the politicians are above accountability, then the doctors and lawyers willing to carry these plans out should be punished, especially since bars and medical boards are at the state level and have more independence.
Emily Bregel@emilybregel.bsky.social · 3d agoA detainee in ICE’s Eloy Detention Center in Arizona has been deported with a urine-collection tube and bag still in place, more than three months after her medical record says a specialist was supposed to review whether the tube could be removed. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
This is such a bald-faced that all of Fernando Burgos’s pants must’ve turned to ash by now. When I said in my @onthemedia.bsky.social interview that the Trump admin is pretending they don’t know what’s happening, this is what I’m talking about.
A detainee in ICE’s Eloy Detention Center in Arizona has been deported with a urine-collection tube and bag still in place, more than three months after her medical record says a specialist was supposed to review whether the tube could be removed. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
Medical negligence cited in ICE deportation of Arizona detainee
A detainee in ICE’s Eloy Detention Center in Arizona has been deported with a urine-collection tube and bag still in place, more than three months after her medical record says
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A Phoenix man from Egypt has spent the last three months confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after ICE deported him there without warning. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
tucson.com
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
tucson.com
From @emilybregel.bsky.social. Ana has been here for over 40 years, raising three kids in America. That's an American by any valuable metric; the government has no legitimate reason for this, it's another spurious detention: tucson.com/news/local/b...
Tucson mom arrested by immigration agents after leaving Pima County courthouse
Immigration agents arrested a longtime Tucson resident, Ana, a Mexican national who has lived in the US since age four and is mother to three citizen children, outside a Pima
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It's bleak, though really not surprising, that the bigots in charge are now locking up pregnant immigrants and seeing they don't get the care to carry to term.
Emily Bregel@emilybregel.bsky.social · 2w agoAt nearly seven months pregnant, Lesli Vaca Díaz was helicoptered to a Tucson hospital after she says a Border Patrol agent struck her in the back so hard during her July 2 arrest that she had the wind knocked out of her and fell to her knees. CBP is investigating. @tucson.com tinyurl.com/bp6nny24
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ […]
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At nearly seven months pregnant, Lesli Vaca Díaz was helicoptered to a Tucson hospital after she says a Border Patrol agent struck her in the back so hard during her July 2 arrest that she had the wind knocked out of her and fell to her knees. CBP is investigating. @tucson.com tinyurl.com/bp6nny24
Two pregnant detainees hospitalized in Arizona; one claims border agent struck her
Two pregnant women in immigration custody in Arizona were hospitalized this month in separate incidents. In one, a woman was helicoptered to a Tucson hospital after what she called an
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This is a really moving and thoughtful interview
Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.
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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4w ago“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”
Venezuelan asylum seeker Erianny Rodriguez Balza, 26, said she's rebuilding her life after being wrongly detained in Arizona's Eloy Detention Center for 9 months. "They stole so much time from me," she told the Star, days after her June 27 release. "I lost everything in there." tinyurl.com/yc5s5th9
Venezuelan woman released from wrongful ICE detention in Arizona after 9 months
Read about Erianny Rodriguez Balza's journey from wrongful detention in Arizona to rebuilding her life in Texas as an asylum seeker.
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Armory Park, closed for nearly nine months for a $1.71 million upgrade, renovation and improvement, reopened with a concert, circus arts, food trucks and a car show July 2, 2026,
Photos: Armory Park reopens after extensive renovation
Armory Park, closed for nearly nine months for a $1.71 million upgrade, renovation and improvement, reopened with a concert, circus arts, food trucks and a car show July 2, 2026,
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So ICE waited more than a week to disclose a 85-year-old German man died in ICE custody.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · last mo.ICE just announced the death of the 21st person in immigration prison, Adrian Andreas Florian, an 85-year-old man from Germany. He died June 24. There's very little information in the press release but it sounds like he may have had dementia. Absolutely horrific.
Several people were quarantined for possible exposure to the contagious measles virus at an ICE detention center in Eloy, Rep. Greg Stanton said.
Several people quarantined for measles exposure at Arizona ICE center
Several people were quarantined for possible exposure to the contagious measles virus at an ICE detention center in Eloy, Rep. Greg Stanton said.
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Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...
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The Arizona Daily Star has no paywall this weekend, July 2-5 🎇 Catch up on the Star's immigration detention coverage here: tucson.com/news/local/b... @tucson.com
Six key stories on ICE detention conditions in Arizona
The Arizona Daily Star's website has no paywall for the 4th of July weekend. Catch up on the Star's reporting on immigration detention with the following news stories:
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A Venezuelan asylum seeker is still detained at Arizona's Eloy Detention Center, two months after a DHS attorney admitted in a sworn District Court filing that the woman has protected status in the U.S. and can't be detained based on her immigration status. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
Venezuelan asylum seeker still detained, despite DHS admitting she has legal status
A Venezuelan asylum seeker with active Temporary Protected Status remains detained at Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center nearly nine months after her arrest. Court filings show a federal government attor...
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Trump plans to deport over two dozen individuals to the Central African Republic, including two Iranian women with no criminal record who sought refuge in the US. This is absurd – the US officially advises against any travel there. This flight must be stopped.
Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"That place is not a place you should put a human being," said Iranian asylum seeker Narges Dehghani, who has now been held at Eloy Detention Center for 14 months. "I felt like I was nothing, by the way they were treating me. Like I’m nothing." Read here: tinyurl.com/4x2x4u3y
An important and shocking investigation from my former colleague @emilybregel.bsky.social tucson.com/news/local/b...
One of the detainees who our reporters were talking with was a Cuban migrant who suffered from debilitating back pain. He was sent to isolation and attempted suicide there during this investigation. tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona ICE detainee alive after suicide attempt; still no ICE response
A Cuban asylum seeker detained at ICE's Eloy Detention Center is alive after attempting suicide at the end of April, two days after he said he was placed in solitary
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One of the most disturbing findings of this Lee Enterprises / @tucson.com investigation is that the immigration detention center uses isolation as a response to suicidal thoughts and other mental-health problems, often making these issues worse for the sufferer. tucson.com/news/local/b...
She was suicidal after being sexually assaulted in Iran. ICE’s solution? Solitary confinement.
Advocates say ICE isn't equipped to handle mental health crises in detention, relying on solitary confinement — and even pepper spray — as quick fixes.
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In a groundbreaking investigation by the Arizona Daily Star and Lee Enterprises, @emilybregel.bsky.social and @emilyhamer.bsky.social show how an Arizona detention center is using isolation recklessly, sometimes to coerce immigration detainees into self deportation. tucson.com/news/local/b...
‘They’re torturing me’: ICE uses solitary confinement to scare people into self-deporting
One immigrant was sent to solitary confinement for refusing to self-deport. A teenager lost 20 pounds. One man attempted suicide. Experts say it's unconstitutional.
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Thousands of immigrants each year in the U.S. are sent to solitary confinement, a punishment so severe that the United Nations considers a 15-day stint in solitary tantamount to torture. Read the first installment of my and @emilyhamer.bsky.social's 2-day report at @tucson.com: tinyurl.com/526aw89f
‘They’re torturing me’: ICE uses solitary confinement to scare people into self-deporting
One immigrant was sent to solitary confinement for refusing to self-deport. A teenager lost 20 pounds. One man attempted suicide. Experts say it's unconstitutional.
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BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.
