What I Cover

For close to two decades I’ve reported on immigration policy — with a focus on the dramatic changes over that time and who has been most affected — as well as on a broad range of other subjects from across the U.S. and Latin America. My work has examined how companies and the immigrant workers they rely on are affected by shifting rules and government regulations. I take the time needed to drill down on complex laws and data sources so I can write clearly and definitively about the subjects I cover.

My Background

I previously worked at Reuters, where our investigation exposing migrant child labor in the U.S. was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a George Polk Award, among other honors, and spurred government investigations. At ProPublica, I have explored lucrative detention contracting and deportations to increasingly far-flung places. My other past work has explored rising death tolls and changing demographics at the U.S.-Mexico border, facilitated by vast international smuggling networks. My stories have uncovered unnecessary deaths in immigration detention and long-standing inequities in the immigration court system, as well as the unregulated world of labor brokers bringing temporary workers into the country. Before covering immigration, I reported on legal affairs and white-collar crime in New York and was a foreign correspondent — first based in Guatemala and then in Mexico — reporting from 10 countries across the region, including Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela, following everything from natural disasters to political coups. An 18-month investigation with colleagues into corrupt deals worth billions of dollars at Mexico’s state-run oil company triggered probes by Mexican authorities. I am originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and am now based in New York.