Mica Rosenberg

Reporter

Mica Rosenberg is an investigative reporter on ProPublica’s national desk focusing on immigration.

Rosenberg previously worked at Reuters, where she and her colleagues published a 2022 investigation exposing migrant child labor in the United States; that series spurred government investigations, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a George Polk Award, among other honors. Her other work explored rising death tolls and changing demographics at the U.S.-Mexico border, facilitated by increasingly lucrative international smuggling networks. In the early days of the pandemic, she revealed disparities in COVID-19 infections among immigrant communities and the government negligence that caused unnecessary deaths in immigration detention. She also worked on projects examining some of the longstanding inequities in the immigration court system and the unregulated world of labor brokers bringing temporary workers into the country. Before covering immigration, she reported on legal affairs and white-collar crime in New York.

Rosenberg began her time at Reuters in Guatemala, filing dispatches on extrajudicial prison killings and the legacy of that country’s repressive human rights history. She later became a senior correspondent in Mexico City and reported from 10 countries across the region, including Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela, following everything from natural disasters to political coups. Her 18-month investigation with colleagues into corrupt deals worth billions of dollars at Mexico’s state-run oil company triggered probes by Mexican authorities.

She completed a Knight Bagehot Fellowship in business journalism and has a master’s degree from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is originally from New Mexico and is now based in Brooklyn, New York.

Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters

Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.

El jefe de policía y el inmigrante

Antes de que Springfield, Ohio, se convirtiera en un punto central en el debate sobre la inmigración, Trump instrumentalizó la solicitud de recursos de un jefe de policía para asegurar que Whitewater sufría una “invasión”. La verdad es más compleja.

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Even as Trump Pushes “America First”

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

What Happened in Whitewater

How immigration is affecting one small Wisconsin city.

What the Data Reveals About U.S. Immigration Ahead of the 2024 Election

Recent years have seen a big increase in migrants crossing the U.S. border. But that’s not the most significant change. It’s that many are coming from new countries and with more legal ways to be here. All this is shaping the 2024 election.

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