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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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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Caitlin Dickerson
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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Caitlin Dickerson
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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Caitlin Dickerson
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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Caitlin Dickerson
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.
Trump Immigration Plan Offers a Ticket to the American Dream. The Poor Need Not Apply.
The Trump administration’s new means-testing rule is an attempt to change the profile of the American immigrant. No more is the U.S. a place that welcomes the poor.
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OUR LATEST: Trump Immigration Plan Offers a Ticket to the American Dream. The Poor Need Not Apply. nyti.ms/2OUAAqo with @shearm and @mirjordan
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I Felt Safe in America. Until El Paso.
It is because of people like me and my daughter that a gunman did what he did.
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Really miss working with and learning from the amazing @ByFernandaS -- her latest
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‘It Feels Like Being Hunted’: Latinos Across U.S. in Fear After El Paso Massacre
The shooting attack in El Paso has left many Latinos deeply shaken, raising questions about their place in American society.
Some Democrats Want to Decriminalize Illegal Border Crossings. Would It Work?
It’s the latest topic in the debate over immigration: Should it be a crime to cross the United States border without authorization?
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NEW FROM ME: Some Democratic presidential candidates want to decriminalize the border. What would that look like? I explain
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Top Border Official Is Reassigned Amid Criticism of Conditions for Migrant Children
The Border Patrol’s veteran El Paso sector chief is being transferred after a series of problems with conditions at detention facilities along the border.
A Border Kept Him From His Daughter. Now He’s Here to Say Goodbye.
A 13-year-old girl from Honduras waited for her father to join her in the United States. But her father was repeatedly detained at the border. He came too late.
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Caitlin Dickerson
This story by my colleagues is devastating. Heydi won asylum but took her life after her father attempted the same three times but was turned away. There’s a much larger story that transcends administrations baked into this one. Please read.
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ICE Launches Low-Key Raids Targeting Migrant Families
A series of coordinated deportation raids is targeting recently arrived families from Central America.