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Samantha Michaels

@samanthamichaels.bsky.social

Investigative reporter at Mother Jones, covering the criminal justice system and immigration https://www.motherjones.com/author/samantha-michaels/ smichaels@motherjones.com Signal: smichaels.01

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Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · last wk.

Ever think about what it's like to be a kid whose parents are detained by ICE? This is a heartbreaking but important listen—it follows siblings from two families whose lives have been turned upside down revealnews.org/podcast/ice-...

Children are being left behind as ICE detains parents across the country

Six miles from Mar-a-Lago, Guatemalan families are being ripped apart. Kids are left to fend for themselves as ICE detains their parents.

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Madison Pauly@msjpauly.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've been joking with journalist friends that I went to a rural diner in Trump country and all I found were secret Democrats and a non-voter. It's true! How Schuylkill County, PA, rose up against an ICE warehouse—and decades of being treated as a "dumping ground" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town

“We do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.”

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Noah Lanard@nlanard.bsky.social · 2w ago

We spoke with former friends and family of the ICE officer who reportedly killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Court records show how ICE gave a lifeline to a man who'd been accused of abuse by two ex-wives before becoming "voluntarily underemployed." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette

The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.

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Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 2w ago

You know the ICE officer who killed someone in Maine and was then accused by two ex-wives of abuse? Turns out he was likely eligible to skip a significant portion of training after ICE hired him, due to a policy change under this administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette

The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.

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Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3w ago

On Monday, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. Reports say Guerrero was authorized to legally work in the US and not even ICE's target. @annayeo.bsky.social was on the ground Tuesday in Biddeford and spoke with locals—including one man who knew Guerrero.

Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reminder that this huge ICE operation in Memphis is STILL happening. I'm not sure most people have heard of it—it's a big task force of immigration officers along with officers from other local and federal agencies. The task force killed 2 people in the past 4 days: www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/u...

Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Why aren't more people talking about the ICE surge in Memphis? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4w ago

On Tuesday morning, ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Now, as hundreds march in Houston and Salgado’s family demands an impartial investigation, DHS is using a familiar playbook: They are blaming Salgado for his own death by asserting he “weaponized his vehicle."

ICE keeps using the same justification for killing drivers

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot dead by immigration agents on the way to work. DHS claims he was using his vehicle as a weapon.

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Madison Pauly@msjpauly.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, SCOTUS ruled that states can ban trans girls from girls' sports. To get there, it watered down the way it analyzes Constitutional protections against sex discrimination. My analysis with comments from @maryrziegler.bsky.social and @avaayers.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Supreme Court's trans athlete ruling is a threat to gender equality

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is "not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection all women get."

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Pema Levy@pemalevy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our investigation into the small number of billionaire networks funding amicus briefs to the Supreme Court. Couldn't have done this without the incredible work of @melissa.news

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2mo ago

As @pemalevy.bsky.social reports, US billionaires have a well-monied thumb on the scales of justice, an oligarchic influence operation that funds a flood of amici to push SCOTUS toward a preferred outcome. And the number of these briefs has risen dramatically, now routinely topping 800 per term.

Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez kids are home alone.

Four American siblings left to fend for themselves—and they're not the only ones.

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19thnews@19thnews.org · 2mo ago

The Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women is withholding $150 million meant to help survivors of domestic violence. Gender-based violence service organizations across the country report radio silence on the status of applications, some submitted over a year ago.

No one to answer the phone: What a missing $150 million means for domestic violence services

The 19th reached out to over 250 domestic violence shelters, organizations and municipalities that have received federal grants in the past to determine the impact of withheld funds.

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Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE deports a mother, who begs for the right to bring her 3-year-old son. ICE refuses. Her son then goes to a man who abuses and kills him. ICE blames the mother for "abandoning" her son to a murderer. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DHS allows mother it deported without her toddler to return for his burial

Wendy Hernandez Reyes denies she “abandoned” her son, as ICE claimed. In an extraordinary act, she was allowed to come back to the U.S. for his burial.

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Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Did you know there's a law that incarcerates mothers because they couldn't stop their boyfriends' violence? Women are being thrown in prison for decades, and I had a chance to talk about it on this podcast. I hope you'll listen. www.exactlyrightmedia.com/the-knife-a-...

The Knife: A True Crime Podcast — EXACTLY RIGHT

The Knife: A True Crime Podcast is a weekly true crime podcast from journalist/producers Hannah Smith and Patia Eaton. It's a show about people who’ve been dropped into a story they didn't start, bu...

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Liliana Segura@lilianasegura.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ll eventually write about this but it’s important to keep in mind that we will not be seeing firing squad (or any federal executions) anytime soon for myriad reasons, including that — unlike Trump’s first term — there’s no one left on the fed row in imminent danger of an execution date.

The Intercept@theintercept.com · 3mo ago

With news that Trump's Justice Department is pushing to bring back firing squads, read @lilianasegura.bsky.social's reporting from February on Trump’s death penalty agenda.