Wendy Fry
@wendyfry.bsky.social
I’m a journalist specializing in the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration and U.S.-MX foreign relations. I speak English and Spanish. Available for freelance work. Contact: wendyreports@gmail.com. Signal: WendyFry.10.
New California law requires companies to disclose past profits from slavery: calmatters.org/justice/2026...
New California reparations law requires companies to disclose past profits from slavery
Gov. Newsom signed a law originating from California's reparations task force that will require companies to disclose past ties to chattel slavery.
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Data from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be disclosed under new California law Reporting by @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Data from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be disclosed under new California law
Gov. Newsom signed a law compelling disclosure of emergency calls from ICE detention centers. It followed CalMatters' reporting about alleged rapes at one site.
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Newsom signs new laws to rein in immigration agents as Trump’s deportation campaign escalates: calmatters.org/justice/2026... by @nigelduara.bsky.social
Newsom signs new laws to rein in immigration agents as Trump's deportation campaign escalates
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws that aim to check immigration agents during the Trump administration’s deportation program.
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Stories coming soon: Gov. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social signs new immigration laws aimed at disrupting the tactics of federal agents operating in CA, including one prompted by @calmatters.org reporting on a lack of access to 911 call records for detention centers. www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/29/g...
Governor Newsom signs bills to push back on Trump’s Orwellian immigration tactics to protect immigrant communities | Governor of California
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Read our latest, which includes body camera footage that contradicts agents' narratives about their arrests in the greater LA area. w/ @sergioolmos.bsky.social calmatters.org/investigatio...
Judge: Immigration agents must stop the way they’re conducting warrantless arrests
A federal judge ruled that agents likely violated the law in conducting warrantless arrests without assessing flight risk.
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We agree. Journalists are working tirelessly to cover this story but face too many barriers to information. We are grateful to @senatorgonzalez.bsky.social for introducing SB 423 & #CALege for passing this transparency measure. calmatters.org/justice/2026... Read more by @wendyfry.bsky.social
Data from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be released under bill going to Gov. Newsom
The California Legislature passed a bill that would force disclosure of information about emergency calls at immigrant detention centers. A Democratic lawmaker put it forward after reading news storie...
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John Cusack@johncusack.bsky.social · 2mo agoGovernor Newsom needs to sign this bill to bring transparency to private detention facilities. bsky.app/profile/free..., x.com/FreedomofPre...
After CalMatters report, lawmakers pass bill to force release of detention center 911 calls calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Data from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be released under bill going to Gov. Newsom
The California Legislature passed a bill that would force disclosure of information about emergency calls at immigrant detention centers. A Democratic lawmaker put it forward after reading news storie...
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‘Pretty sure he’s wet:’ Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show. “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.” “tonks everywhere selling food.” W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...
‘Pretty sure he’s wet:’ Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show
Records released as part of a lawsuit challenging racial profiling show that immigration agents used slurs to refer to Latino targets.
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‘Pretty sure he’s wet:’ Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show. Reporting by @sergioolmos.bsky.social & @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...
‘Pretty sure he’s wet:’ Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show
Records released as part of a lawsuit challenging racial profiling show that immigration agents used slurs to refer to Latino targets.
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‘Pretty sure he’s wet” “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.” Newly released text messages and body camera footage show federal agents using racial slurs against latinos during immigration raids across Los Angeles. W/ @evidentmedia.org @wendyfry.bsky.social
ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.
Wendy Fry@wendyfry.bsky.social · 4mo ago#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...
#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds
Private prison company CoreCivic sold two California properties to the Department of Homeland Security. It will continue operating them as ICE detention centers.
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5 things to know about the Trump administration's new green card policy calmatters.org/justice/2026...
5 things to know about the Trump administration’s new green card policy
If the goal was to confuse everyone, the mission was accomplished. Just before Memorial Day, the Trump administration issued a sweeping new policy directive that took aim at legal immigration. It wou...
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#Breaking Federal judge orders immigrant detention center to allow San Diego County health inspection calmatters.org/justice/2026...
ICE detention center must open doors to San Diego County health inspection, judge rules
A California law empowers local health officials to inspect immigrant detention centers. San Diego County sued to enforce it after being denied access to a facility.
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“My body didn’t want to go to sleep last night because I’m afraid I’ll dream I’m back there in jail,” Demirtas said about his first night home. calmatters.org/justice/2026...
He spent 7 weeks in ICE detention. Why his case shows new legal obstacles for immigrants
An immigration judge granted Idris Demirtas' release from detention, but that wasn't enough to reunite him with his wife in San Diego.
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Just your periodic reminder from a journo that when you’re in ICE detention and/or CDCR and they say they might be recording your calls, THEY ARE RECORDING YOUR CALLS
Ok so they’re really really really gonna start enforcing the Real ID, y’all. Feb 1. If you have a passport card though or passport book, you’re OK via @TravelGov
Me explaining to my future husband how it’s not true that you can’t just leave church spaghetti sitting out on the stove all night. If that were true, all of Texas would already be dead, luv. 😘✌🏽
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“There,” the great legal mind thought as he added his footnote. “That should put an end to the ‘Kavanaugh Stops’ thing.”
Nate Raymond@nateraymond.bsky.social · 10mo agoKavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
Don’t miss this. H2A worker visas will only go up. www.instagram.com/reel/DSoIj4T...
propublica on Instagram: "Sofi thought she was being offered the American dream with an H-2A farmworker visa. She left her toddler in Mexico and wound up in …"
Sofi thought she was being offered the American dream with an H-2A farmworker visa. She left her toddler in Mexico and wound up in a nightmare that authorities say almost got her killed.Over the years, the promises of an H-2A visa — such as humane working conditions, free housing and far better wages than back home — have sometimes been undermined by the relative ease of exploiting workers due to scant oversight of the program.Listen to ProPublica’s Max Blau talk about Sofi’s harrowing experience and why it’s vital for the public to better understand the perils H-2A workers face when picking the produce that lines our grocery store aisles.🎨: Dadu Shin for ProPublica
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I’m just gonna note here that my mom still does not think it’s funny that I hid a whole human being (my bestie) in our own house for several weeks completely undetected like the wanna be CIA agent that I am. That’s how little our parents paid attention in the 90’s.
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
Immigration rights activist Jeannette Vizguerra-Ramirez was released yesterday from a for-profit GEO Immigration Detention Center in Denver. A federal immigration judge ordered her release on bond after finding that the Department of Homeland Security failed to justify her continued detention.
Baja authorities are searching for this 15-year-old last seen in Colonias de California in Tijuana. Please share.
CA Attorney General Rob Bonta finds unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the newly opened California City ICE detention center run by CoreCivic. CoreCivic has said they're following all fed regs. DOJ staff finds some detainees have to spend 23-24 hours a day in their housing unit.
Look I did it! I can't BELIEVE that actually worked and I could follow all of @adamisacson.com steps. But it did, and it took me a little longer, but I could follow all the steps! 🙌That's so cool thank you so much!
“The corrections department also provides ICE with information that helps the agency locate, arrest, and deport people who are not directly transferred. CalMatters obtained and reviewed more than 27,000 pages of emails between state prison employees and ICE.“ calmatters.org/justice/2025...
'We may be deporting the wrong people': New poll shows doubts about immigration crackdown
A new poll shared exclusively with CalMatters adds to a slate of recent surveys suggesting Californians’ support is waning for Trump’s harshest immigration enforcement policies.
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