Caitlin Dickerson
I'm a @nytimes immigration reporter and @CNN analyst. Formerly an investigative reporter at @npr. Reach me at [email protected]
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‘Demeaned and Humiliated’: What Happened to These Iranians at U.S. Airports
Since August, at least 16 Iranian students have been turned away at airports, losing their chances to study at prestigious universities, amid new tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
Iranian Student Blocked From U.S. Despite Court Order, Sparking Outrage
A growing number of Iranian students are being turned away at airports amid escalated diplomatic tensions with Iran.
Iranian-Americans Questioned at the Border: ‘My Kids Shouldn’t Experience Such Things’
Up to 200 people were held by border agents, with some of them reportedly asked to share their opinions about the situation in Iran and Iraq.
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NEW: Negah Hekmati's 5-year-old couldn't sleep and asked her mom to stop speaking Farsi because she feared being sent to jail. They're among more than 100 who were held up at the WA border in what the ACLU calls a violation of their 1st amendment rights
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Kathryn Johnson, a Reporter With a Gift for Gaining Trust
She knew that the secret to getting a great story was not telling the whole thing.
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My latest: After she was promoted to become a "newsman" for the AP, Kathryn Johnson wrote with incredible access about the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. For this piece I got to learn some of her secrets.
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‘I’m Kidnapped’: A Father’s Nightmare on the Border
A father was tortured in front of his 3-year-old son until his wife in New Jersey paid $2,000 to his captors. Chilling audio of the negotiations for his release shows how migrants, turned back by the U.S., are facing new dangers in Mexico.
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“I’m kidnapped.” American policies are creating a windfall for cartels in Mexico, who now have easy access to new victims among the camps of asylum seekers waiting outside the US border.
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Despite Warnings, Trump Moves to Expand Migrant Family Detention
Tiny prison uniforms were replaced with T-shirts. Healthcare and schooling improved. Experts say there is still no safe way to incarcerate families.
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NEW: You know about overcrowded border stations and tent shelters for kids, but there’s another plan that also deserves your attention:
If successful, jails across the country would fill up with migrant families without much of a chance of leaving
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If the administration succeeds, the US will become only the 2nd developed country after Australia to systematically incarcerate migrant families through the end of their legal cases. Experts say those detained months or years will cause permanent damage.
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Migrant Teen Lay for Hours in His Cell Before He Was Found Dead
A video shows the boy in severe distress. He was discovered by his cellmate, not immigration officials, as they originally claimed.
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NEW: The 16 year old arrived in CBP custody healthy, calm and alert according to medical reports. He died of the flu days later, after a practitioner’s advice that he should be rechecked and potentially hospitalized was ignored. H/t @propublica
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She’s Fighting Cancer. Her Son Is Fighting Her Deportation.
Tania Romero worked three jobs to raise her children. Now her son, a doctoral student at Yale, is determined to save her.
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Some context for this story: I receive desperate pleas like this one in my inbox every week from sons, daughters, spouses, grandkids. It's one story of many.
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How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.
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Today, Facebook announced Breitbart as one of its news partners... Re-upping my story about the website, and the very real consequences that fake news can have on people's lives nyti.ms/2ypNiAh h/t @oneunderscore__
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Kevin McAleenan Is Out as Acting Homeland Security Secretary
Mr. McAleenan oversaw a border security agency that grappled with the most crossings at the southwestern border in more than a decade, prompting the ire of the president.
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Kevin McAleenan is out. And though he has publicly criticized the way that the administration has presented some of its most aggressive policies, it's worth remembering that he often pushed for them behind closed doors
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Government Plans to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants
The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin testing on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities.
Desperate Migrants on the Border: ‘I Should Just Swim Across’
A growing number of migrants, blocked at the border by new immigration policies, are using riskier tactics to get in.
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Asylum seekers in Matamoros say they’re resorting to dangerous ways of sneaking into the United States because of new restrictions that block them from entering legally
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Trump Slashes Refugee Cap to 18,000, Curtailing U.S. Role as Haven
The president approved an 18,000-person limit on the number of refugees who can be admitted into the United States in fiscal 2020, about half the current limit of 30,000.
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Only 18k refugees will be accepted into the US next year, compared to a ceiling of 110k that was set during the final year of the Obama administration.
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Refugee Cutbacks Could Isolate Rohingya Children in the U.S.
Thousands of Rohingya have quietly settled in America, but for children who fled violence in Myanmar, having their parents join them is becoming a distant hope.
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Hefzur and Rohim -- both Rohingya -- are among the few refugees who've made it into the United States since 2017. Both fear that new restrictions could mean their families will never be able to join them. Another must read from @mirjordan.
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‘People Actively Hate Us’: Inside the Border Patrol’s Morale Crisis
Overwhelmed by desperate migrants and criticized for mistreating the people in their care, many agents have grown defensive, insular and bitter.
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We interviewed 25 current and former Border Patrol agents, here’s what they said
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Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.
Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.
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“Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been ‘the talk of campus.’ Our reporting suggests that it was... We also uncovered a previously unreported story... that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation.”
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Supreme Court Backs New Trump Asylum Restrictions
The policy requires many Central American migrants to seek and be denied asylum in another country before applying in the United States.
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Trying to put this simply bc we've written a lot about 👏🏾big 👏🏾immigration 👏🏾changes and I can understand if ur confused abt relative significance: If permanently upheld, this rule will effectively end asylum at the Southern border. nyti.ms/2ZTz2B4 nyti.ms/2ZTz2B4
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Trying to put this simply bc we've written a lot about 👏🏾big 👏🏾immigration 👏🏾changes and I can understand if ur confused abt relative significance: If permanently upheld, this rule will effectively end asylum at the Southern border. nyti.ms/2ZTz2B4 nyti.ms/2ZTz2B4
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Bahamas Hurricane Survivors, Desperate for Respite, Seek Passage to U.S.
The rush to fill flights and ferries has raised questions about what immigration rules apply for Bahamians seeking refuge.
Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported
Without notice, the Trump administration eliminated a program that had allowed immigrants to avoid deportation while undergoing lifesaving medical treatment.
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It's getting harder for anyone in the United States illegally -- including the sick, victims of crime who help police, and the sole caregivers of children -- to defend themselves if they are caught up in the deportation dragnet. My latest with @mirjordan
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Migrant Children Are Entitled to Toothbrushes and Soap, Federal Court Rules
A federal appeals court panel rejected the government’s definition of “safe and sanitary” conditions for children in Border Patrol facilities.
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