Maanvi Singh

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Immigration Reporter @us.theguardian.com Send tips: maanvi.singh@theguardian.com Signal: maanvisingh.42

New: The Trump admin subjected at least one person on hunger strike in immigrant detention to forcible medical treatment. A document from the ICE Health Service Corps confirms the first case of forced treatment since Trump's second term. w/ José Olivares

Trump administration forced treatment on hunger striker in ICE detention, document reveals

ICE report reviewed by the Guardian discloses a patient was ‘subject to force feeding, hydration or urinary catheterization’, which experts have described as torture

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France's world cup team uses the same charter planes that ICE uses for deportations. "The aircraft carrying the Frenchmen on 4 July was used to transfer detained immigrants from an Arizona detention center to Louisiana as recently as 1 July" from @mlsist.bsky.social & @sophiemsullivan.bsky.social

France national team uses ICE deportation planes for World Cup travel

The plane that French team used after match with Paraguay flew 44 deportation-related flights this year alone

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What happens after ICE raids a city? Last year in LA, partners and primary breadwinners, grandparents and children, carwasheros and coffee shop regulars were arrested, detained and deported – disappearing from their neighborhoods... This is what came next.

ICE raided their city, taking parents, spouses and friends. That’s not where it ends

Three families in Los Angeles on the devastating aftermath of ICE detentions and deportations that overwhelmed their city last summer

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days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

‘We won’t stop until they’re free’: protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own words

Organizers rally outside Delaney Hall, facing violent clashes with agents, as over 300 detainees are on hunger strike

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The US government has targeted thousands of parents for deportation since Donald Trump took office in January 2025. A Guardian analysis of government records has found that, during the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children. 🧵

A chart showing the average monthly deportations of people with children under 18. It escalates significantly after January 2025 and starts to come down gradually in July 2025 until returning at or below pre-Trump levels in October 2025.

The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months. We analyzed ICE records from January-August 2025 and found thousands of parents in the data. Families that have been broken up by the administration's mass deportation machine

Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months

The Guardian analyzed ICE records from January-August 2025, as advocates say the family-separation crisis will lead to generational trauma

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We @us.theguardian.com wanted to know: who's being pulled into Trump's mass deportation deportation dragnet. And we ended up having to sue the government to find out. Now we've made the data public. @wcraft.bsky.social explains how he got these records, and how you can use it in your reporting...

We sued the Trump administration for these immigration records

The Guardian wanted to know who, exactly, was pulled into the mass-deportation dragnet of Trump’s second term

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19yo Olivia has been detained at Dilley for more than four months. She has lost 20lbs, wakes up with a headache near daily. And she has nightmares that flashback to everything that's happened since she, her mom and siblings were apprehended. This is her day-to-day in ICE detention:

A day in the life of a 19-year-old in ICE detention: ‘I feel that this nightmare is not going to end’

Olivia has been detained for months at the sprawling Dilley center in Texas. She has lost 20lb, and wakes up every day with a headache

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An environmental activist and her family escaped death threats in Honduras... then 11 days before their asylum hearing, ICE arrested her husband, severed his case from theirs, and then deported him back to Honduras – where he's now in hiding.

An environmental activist and her family escaped death threats in Honduras. ICE deported her husband anyway

Oscar, Ana and their children fled violence for safety in the US. Now Oscar, afraid and alone, is back in Honduras – ‘at the mercy of God and his will’

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Uline – a company owned a MAGA mega-donor – brought in workers from Mexico who earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hour... Now one worker from Mexico who was badly hurt on the job has spoken to the Guardian about his experience working for the company.

Stephanie Kirchgaessner@skirchy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please read our latest of the Maga donors at Uline and their reliance on Mexican labor. For the first time, one worker who was badly hurt on the job has spoken to us and told us his story (with @maanvisingh.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’

Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims

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I've been covering Trump's retribution campaign since he came back to the White House. Then, that storyline came directly to my state - and what I've covered will stick in my brain forever. The children, the brutality, the isolation, the camaraderie and bravery. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I knew Trump would target Minnesota. I didn’t expect this level of violence | Rachel Leingang

I’m reporting on a political retribution campaign, disguised as immigration enforcement, in the community where I live

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Tried to capture why Minnesotans so quickly came together to fight ICE & to help neighbors stay home: strong unions and nonprofits, high civic engagement, lessons from George Floyd, and a federal force that felt like an invasion that made people jump into action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘We’re fighting for the soul of the country’: how Minnesota residents came together to face ICE

Networks created after police killed George Floyd were reactivated to challenge Trump’s mass deportation policy

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