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Ginger Thompson

6 years

Reporter: what did you say to your mother when you first saw her? Jimena: That I love her and I missed her a lot. #zero tolerance. ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

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Ginger Thompson

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2 years

His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. Stunning reporting here. ⁦ @propublica ⁩

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me...

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Remember the secret recording that captured a 6-year-old Salvadoran girl who had been separated from her mother? I'm rushing to the border because ICE is expected to release the mom today. And I'll travel with her as she seeks to reunify with her daughter. Stay tuned @ProPublica

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@ProPublica has learned that Mexico's former security minister, Genaro Garcia Luna, has been indicted on corruption charges in NY and arrested in Grapevine, Tx. Source says Garcia Luna had "all kinds of pictures with US officials in his unassuming one bedroom."

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@propublica has learned that former Mexican Defense Minister Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was arrested by U.S. authorities when he arrived in the country late this afternoon on a trip with his family.

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Asked by @AnaCabrera on @cnn how he felt hearing cries of migrant children separated from their parents, new DHS secretary said, “I am a father. I am a husband. I am a son. I am a brother. I have not heard before a pain as acute & heartbreaking as that." @propublica

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“However hard it is, we will get the job done,” says Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on reuniting families who were separated at the border under the Trump administration. “The cruelty of the prior administration has come to an end.”

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The Trump Campaign Can’t Find a Judge Who Will Ignore Facts — but It’s Trying

The Trump campaign’s legal strategy has come down to this: Even as judges dismiss lawsuits as baseless, it files nearly identical ones in new courts, hoping for more favorable judges. Failure has not...

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6 years

Breaking: Jimena spoke to her mother! She cried through the entire call, asking her mom when they were going to be together again. I suspect hearing her mother’s voice for the first time after being so traumatically torn apart brought the pain rushing back. This is Zero Tolerance

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It’s one thing for a reporter to find out by chance that the government is still separating children from their parents at the border. It’s another thing entirely when that’s how the lawyers representing those kids find out. My latest, ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed

Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They’re protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration advocates say it’s zero...

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“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years

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5 years

The arrest comes as part of a broad investigation into Mexican corruption, following the trial against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman. Garcia Luna was accused during the trial of taking cartel bribes as far back as 2005.

El Chapo Jury Hears About Bribes to Mexico’s Public Security Secretary (Published 2018)

The defense expected to elicit testimony from a cartel operative that a Mexican president had been bribed. But a judge limited what lawyers could ask.

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More on the remarkable six-year-old Salvadoran girl whose distraught, determined pleas for help have been heard around the world. My latest. ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, a Memorized Phone Number Proves a Lifeline

As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are. The 6-year-old girl heard asking to call her aunt on an audio...

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5 years

A reporter is only as good as their sources. Here’s one of my most courageous, helping me accept the Chancellor Award. Thank you ⁦ @columbiajourn ⁩.

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2 weeks ago, I wrote about a 4-year-old boy, Brayan, who was separated from his father at the border. @CBP said, w/out evidence, the father was a gang member. Last night, after 7+ weeks apart, the gov't quietly reunited the boy and his dad. My latest:

Government Reverses Course, Sending 4-Year-Old Boy Back to His Father

More than 11 weeks after separating a young Salvadoran boy from his father and claiming, without evidence, that his father was a gang member, the Department of Homeland Security returned the boy.

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This is humbling, especially after a year of stellar immigration reporting by so many colleagues at competing news organizations. Hats off to you all. You know who you are.

George Polk Awards

@PolkAwards

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Polk Award for Immigration Reporting: The staff of ProPublica for “Zero Tolerance,” coverage that led the U. S. to cease separating children and parents at the Mexican border. #immigration

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During his time as Mexico’s security minister, from 2006-2012, he worked closely with the DEA, and oversaw the SIU program, or Sensitive Investigative Units. Those units were notoriously leaky, as I reported for @ProPublica and @NatGeo in 2018. One leak triggered a massacre.

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Cindy Madrid is out of detention. On her way to find her little girl.

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4 years

The story of the CDC can be summed up in this devastating quote: “I am very troubled on this Sunday morning that there will be people who will get sick and perhaps die because of what we were forced to do."

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It’s rare to hear border patrol officers reflect off-script about their work and why they do it, especially now, when what they do has become so disturbing. One agent agreed to speak. My latest:

A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children

With the agency under fire for holding children in deplorable conditions and over racist and misogynistic Facebook posts, one agent speaks about what it’s like to do his job. “Somewhere down the line...

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A viral image of a crying Honduran child at the U.S.-Mexico border has won the 2019 World Press Photo contest’s Photo of the Year prize. Congrats @jbmoorephoto ! via @HuffPostArts

Viral Photo Of Crying Girl At The Border Wins 2019 World Press Photo Awards

John Moore's haunting photo was among the dozens of winning images that show the power of photojournalism.

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Mother and daughter, where they belong, together. Jimena and Cindy.

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This 6-year-old Salvadoran girl we all heard pleading for help, walked out of a Houston airport early this morning holding her mother’s hand—and countless hearts. Glad I was there with the amazing ⁦ @nadiasussman ⁩ to report it for ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩.

Watch the 6-Year-Old Salvadoran Girl Heard on a Secret Recording Out of a Border Patrol Detention...

“I’ll be the happiest woman in the world,” said Jimena’s mother, Cindy Madrid, as she prepared for the moment. “It’s been very painful to be apart.”

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Thrilled to report that @Netflix has given my @Propublica story about the Allende massacre a third life. It’s a spectacular series called Somos, created by @James Schamus and co-writers @monikarevilla and @falsaliebre . Thread:

Netflix Is Launching a Series Inspired by a ProPublica Story About a U.S.-Triggered Massacre in...

The Spanish-language series, called “Somos.,” draws from Ginger Thompson’s 2017 ProPublica investigation and was written and produced by an almost entirely Mexican crew.

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Story here:

How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico

The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.

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Listen to children being separated from their parents. My latest. @ProPublica

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Listen to children who’ve just been separated from their parents at the border. @ProPublica 's @gingerthomp1 has obtained exclusive audio from inside a detention facility.

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Four-year-old Brayan and his father, Julio, were reunited tonight, 80 days after ⁦ @CBP ⁩ separated them, sending Brayan to NY and Julio to detention in TX. Why did ⁦agents separate them? They won’t say. So separations go on, in secret.

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Brayan is 4 year old Salvadoran boy. He was placed in a temporary foster home in September in NYC. Until our phone call last month, his lawyer had no idea that he’d been separated from his father. My latest. ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed

Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They’re protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration advocates say it’s zero...

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3 years

Las Fuerzas Armadas de Mexico se comprometen con proteger el pueblo de cualquier enemigo, pero en el caso del narcoviolencia dicen que la ley los prohíbe actuar. Increíble. #Allende

Titular de la Sedena se deslinda de la masacre de Allende: responsabilidad operativa "no era mía"

Así respondió el general cuando se le preguntó sobre el reportaje publicado en la revista Proceso: “Masacre de Allende: el silencio del general” basado en documentos de la Sedena según los cuales,...

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4 years

This is despicable.

Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉

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4 years

Dr. Susan Moore died today from COVID, but HOW she died is unacceptable. She posted a video to Facebook from an Indiana hospital days before her death about mistreatment. "This is how black people get killed when you send them home and they don't know how to fight for themselves"

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I’m overwhelmed and humbled to win an award named for the great John Chancellor. He called himself a “frightened optimist” about the state of America. I share his conviction that whenever the country’s in trouble, journalists are key to turning things around. @columbiajourn

Columbia Journalism

@columbiajourn

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. @propublica Reporter, @gingerthomp1 selected as this year's John Chancellor Award winner. "Her work from the past three decades reflects the courage and integrity of the late John Chancellor,” said Dean @SteveCollNY , a member of the Chancellor jury.

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My latest: another DEA operation that resulted in the loss of innocent Mexican lives. Not easy holiday reading. But hoping it gets authorities on both sides of the border to look hard at the costs of the way they fight the drug war.

DEA Operation Played Hidden Role in the Disappearance of Five Innocent Mexicans

The agency knew why the victims were kidnapped in 2010 by the Zetas drug cartel from a Holiday Inn in Mexico, but it did nothing to investigate or help. The victims’ friends and relatives now wonder...

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5 years

In surprise visits to CBP detention facilities, federal inspectors found a cell with a maximum capacity of 12 that held 76 detainees. One with a maximum capacity of 8 held 41.

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6 years

The father I wrote about this week, who was separated from his 4-yr-old son at the border in August, walked out of a detention facility on bond tonight, ready to get his son back. “I’m happy,” he said, hugging his mother. “Now comes the most important part.” ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

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7 years

Devastating: college-educated black mothers fare worse than women of other races who never finished high school. Obese women of all races do better than black women at normal weight. And wealthy black women do worse than white poor ones. @AnnieWaldman

How Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers

A ProPublica analysis shows that women who deliver at hospitals that disproportionately serve black mothers are at a higher risk of harm.

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4 years

Humbled and super excited to be chosen for this unique role, aimed at bolstering the already awesomely talented staff of reporters @propublica .

ProPublica Announces Six Staff Promotions, Creates New Masthead Team

Charles Ornstein named managing editor/local; Ginger Thompson becomes chief of correspondents; Tracy Weber named deputy managing editor

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2 years

Beyond honored.

The Pulitzer Prizes

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Congratulations to @gingerthomp1 of @propublica , the newest member of the #Pulitzer Prize Board!

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4 years

As coronavirus cases surge, inundating hospitals and leading to testing shortages, a rapidly growing number of Houston area residents are dying at home, according to an ⁦ @NBCNews ⁩ and ⁦ @propublica ⁩ review of Houston Fire Department data.

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@gingerthomp1

4 years

Just In: ProPublica has learned that a federal grand jury this morning indicted two more former leaders of Mexico’s fight against drug cartels. /1

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6 years

This is an important development. It signals that while the Trump administration attempts to conflate illegal immigration with organized crime, senior agents in the field are telling them they’re wrong.

ICE Criminal Investigators Ask to Be Distanced from Detentions, Deportations in Letter to Kirstjen...

Nearly 20 ICE regional supervisors say the agency’s controversial detention and deportation policies have made it hard for them to conduct investigations into threats to national security.

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5 years

Art installations blast audio of sobbing, detained children across New York City - The Washington Post

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4 years

“If we don’t develop a different attitude, we’re going to be like people in the lifeboat, beating on those that are trying to climb in.” Essential reading, from beginning to end, by ⁦ @AbrahmL ⁩ and ⁦ @MeridithKohut ⁩

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1/ Over the last year, I’ve been able to do the kind of reporting that costs Mexican journalists their lives.

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3 years

More sickening findings in the @WSJ Facebook Files. Human traffickers, a drug cartel and prostitution rings have used Facebook for recruitment. The platform’s employees have flagged the problems—to little avail.

Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak,...

Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. In many instances Facebook’s response is inadequate or nothing at all.

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4 years

This stunning account of the Jan 6 insurrection by my brilliant @propublica colleagues is a devastating reminder of how far away this country remains from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream.

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A career like mine only happens with the help and support of great editors. I’ve had more of them than I can name in 280 characters; at the @latimes , @baltimoresun , @chicagotribune @nytimes @propublica . Two of the best are no longer with us:John Carroll and Christine Kay. 🙏🏾

Columbia Journalism

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. @propublica Reporter, @gingerthomp1 selected as this year's John Chancellor Award winner. "Her work from the past three decades reflects the courage and integrity of the late John Chancellor,” said Dean @SteveCollNY , a member of the Chancellor jury.

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States Are Hoarding $5.2 Billion in Welfare Funds Even as the Need for Aid Grows

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4 years

Hope it’s ok for one of the writers on this list to be at a loss for words. What an honor.

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Congratulations to the newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Today we are honored to welcome 252 scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators into the Academy.

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It has been well established that African Americans are dying of COVID-19 at a disproportionate rate in cities across America. ⁦ @propublica ⁩ sought to explore the problem by examining the first 100 recorded deaths in Chicago.

COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To.

In Chicago, 70 of the city’s 100 first recorded victims of COVID-19 were black. Their lives were rich, and their deaths cannot be dismissed as inevitable. Immediate factors could — and should — have...

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OMG. Is this is how ⁦ @CBP ⁩ decides whether to separate a child from a parent? “You size up people with their demeanor and you can tell if they're angry, if they're upset, if they had an altercation. There's a lot of non-verbals that stand out."

Despite ban, separating migrant families at the border continues in some cases

The Trump administration has been ordered to stop separating migrant families, but it has been using an exception to continue the practice.

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6 years

A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. With ⁦ @EvaRuth ⁩ and ⁦ @eaophoto ⁩ for ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

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"The jurors also unanimously chose to highlight @ProPublica for the first-ever Peabody Catalyst Award for a story that brought immediate change to a controversial government practice of family separation." Thank you, @PeabodyAwards via @PeabodyAwards

Peabody names News & Radio/Podcast Winners - The Peabody Awards

2018 peabody awardsThe Peabody Board of Jurors revealed today winners in News and Radio/Podcast categories, rounding out the Peabody 30 for programs released in 2018. Honorees represent investigative...

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“This child is very strong,” said the family’s lawyer, Thelma O. Garcia. “Nobody would have known or understood what was happening at the border if it wasn’t for the audio with her voice.” By ⁦ @lomikriel ⁩

Six-year-old heard on Border Patrol recording joins mother in Houston under court-ordered reunifi...

The 6-year-old Salvadoran girl who became the symbol of the Trump administration’s...

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⁦ @propublica ⁩ and ⁦ @TexasTribune ⁩ accepting an award at the White House correspondents dinner tonight! Yay ⁦ @lomikriel ⁩ ⁦ @LChurchilll ⁩!

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The Navy punished its own sailors for failing to master a flawed system that they’d been inadequately trained on and that the Navy itself admitted it did not fully understand. 10 died. Astonishing read by a badass band of reporters ⁦ @propublica ⁩

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A disturbing primer on how police oversight fuels civilian distrust by ⁦ @ericuman ⁩ ⁦ @propublica ⁩. Spoiler: It’s because the police are the overseers.

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👇🏾👇🏾Trump made money on his own inauguration, with Ivanka’s help.

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Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka in the Middle via ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

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1/Since I began covering zero tolerance, the gov't keeps moving the goal posts. Today we learned 1000s more kids were separated from their parents than @DHSgov previously reported. The words of the judge who ordered it to end have been ringing in my head.

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Nearly 2,000 secret graves have been found in almost every state in Mexico, many in plain sight. This important work by the talented team @quintoelab shows the scale of the violence and impunity that defines Mexoco’s last decade, and is worth your time.

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My brilliant colleague ⁦ @hannahdreier ⁩ won a Pulitzer tonight. ⁦ @propublica ⁩’s zero tolerance coverage was a finalist in public service. Cause for celebration. ⁦

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One more move aimed at ending asylum in the US entirely.

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The Trump administration just quietly revoked a document laying out asylum seekers' right to work.

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After Hundreds of Meatpacking Workers Died From COVID-19, Congress Wants Answers — ProPublica

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A game-changing ruling for asylum-seekers. U.S. judge blocks Trump crackdown on asylum seekers, bars blanket detentions of those with persecution claims

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Following @ProPublica ’s reporting on DEA operations that triggered at least two massacres in Mexico, and several calls of concern from Democrats on Capitol Hill, the Justice Department’s Inspector General has announced he will investigate.

Justice Department Inspector General to Investigate DEA Program Linked to Massacres in Mexico

The inquiry stems from stories by ProPublica that showed the DEA’s vetted unit in the country has had a history of leaking sensitive information to drug traffickers.

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The FBI Is Investigating Massive Embezzlement of Border Patrol Union Funds. The latest from @ACInvestigates and @JeffErnsthausen . @ProPublica

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It’s been one month and one day since Cindy Madrid was separated from her daughter Jimena & detained for seeking asylum. She was released yesterday and hopes to be reunited with Jimena tomorrow. She wants to look as good as she’s going to feel with her daughter back in her arms.

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Remember the 6-yr-old Salvadoran girl whose cries helped bring an end to the administration's zero tolerance policy? My colleague @nadiasussman paid her a visit earlier this month and produced a beautiful video update @ProPublica . Please take a look.

Salvadoran Girl Whose Cries Highlighted the Cruelty of Family Separation Policy Embraces New Life

After she was separated from her mother at the border, 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid was recorded begging to make a phone call over the sobs of other children. A video shows how she and...

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Remember when Trump officials called immigrant shelters “summer camp?” Read this bombshell: Worker Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter. ⁦ @ReporterTopher ⁩ ⁦ @MichaelGrabell ⁩

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The Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy will take a toll on the families affected that we’ll never be able to calculate, and may never fully see. But here’s a glimpse. My latest @ProPublica

What’s It Like for an Immigrant Child to Have a Glimpse of the American Dream, Then Have It Taken...

The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy separated kids and parents, putting the children in foster care, where many of them got a taste of a life much better than the one they left. What...

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@pressfreedom 12/ One of the strongest ways to fight back is with more reporting, not less. #ourvoiceisourstrength

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This is the second preventable death related to abortion bans that ⁦ @propublica ⁩ is reporting this week. By ⁦ @Ksurana6 ⁩

Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died

Candi Miller’s family said she didn't visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.” Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia’s abortion...

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Hundreds of immigrant parents have been separated from their children at the border because of vague gang affiliation accusations. Where do those charges come from? @MelissaLaLinea 's first story for @propublica provides some disturbing answers.

Immigration Officials Use Secretive Gang Databases to Deny Migrant Asylum Claims

The information in the databases comes from foreign police and militaries, and it is being used to detain migrants and separate them from their children. Legal experts and human rights advocates say...

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Wonder what’s happening with the little girl on the audio? She’s still separated from her mother, who has to parent from 1000 miles away. My latest on Jimena.

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Mexican foreign minister helped re-write Trump border wall speech - CBS News

Mexican foreign minister helped Jared Kushner re-write Trump border wall speech

Kushner is working to salvage relations with Mexico, according to officials

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Honored that @ProPublica 's coverage of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy has been nominated for a @PeabodyAwards .

Peabody Awards

@PeabodyAwards

6 years

Peabody Awards Announce 60 Nominees #Peabody #StoriesThatMatter

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Deeply honored to be on this list with my incomparable colleagues @ReporterTopher and @MichaelGrabell . Even more exciting that one of the other nominees is also a @ProPublica production. Bravo @bykenarmstrong and @jcsheckler .

Shorenstein Center

@ShorensteinCtr

6 years

We're thrilled to announce the seven finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. These stories have all had a real impact on the U.S. over the past year, and it's an honor to celebrate these journalists' work.

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Thanks @columbiajourn . And thank you @propublica for letting me do work that matters. A special heartfelt thank you to my amazing editor @tracyweber

Columbia Journalism

@columbiajourn

5 years

. @propublica Reporter, @gingerthomp1 selected as this year's John Chancellor Award winner. "Her work from the past three decades reflects the courage and integrity of the late John Chancellor,” said Dean @SteveCollNY , a member of the Chancellor jury.

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — ProPublica

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2 years

WAIT, there’s more! Clarence Thomas Didn’t Disclose Harlan Crow Real Estate Deal by ⁦ @js_kaplan ⁩ ⁦ @JustinElliott ⁩ and ⁦ @Amierjeski ⁩

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I’m incredibly proud to have been part of the team of journalists who did this work, and grateful for the numerous sources who helped us. A special shout out to Jennifer Harbury for her trust. And to Jimena for lending her voice. #Pulitzer

ProPublica

For emotionally resonant reporting on migrant family separation at the U.S./Mexico border, including haunting audio of detained and distressed children desperate to reunite with their parents.

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In the 1930s Paul Tobenkin focused his journalism on exposing bigotry in public policy. I’m honored @propublica ’s immigration reporting has won an award named for him. Thank you @columbiajourn .

Columbia Journalism

@columbiajourn

6 years

3/3 Congratulations to #TobenkinAward winners - @gingerthomp1 @MichaelGrabell and @ReporterTopher of @ProPublica for their series "Zero Tolerance," which focused on the experiences -- and voices -- of children who were separated from their parents at the Mexico-U.S. border.

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Big move forward in @ProPublica 's plan to expand our coverage of Washington. The great Ronnie Greene will lead our team there as senior editor!

ProPublica Hires Ronnie Greene to Lead Washington Bureau

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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4 years

Deeply honored to be part of this stellar team and to win an award named after an iconic champion of human rights, especially now, when that fight couldn't be more important. Thank you to @propublica and all the editors who worked on this project, especially mine @tracyweber .

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

@RFKHumanRights

4 years

This year’s New Media Award winner “Inside the Border Patrol” takes us to the Mexican border to examine the federal agency charged with carrying out the family-shattering policies of the Trump administration. Congratulations to the @ProPublica team.

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For those of us who often go out to eat: Federal and state investigators determined that more than $52 million had been stolen from people working in restaurants, more than in any other industry in New York. ⁦ @propublica ⁩ ⁦ @Documentedny ⁩

127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft

An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year...

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4 years

She Photographed Police Abuse at a 2014 BLM March Then Watched the Image Go Viral During Capitol Riot

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We traveled to Houston to learn more about the 6-year-old Salvadoran girl whose separation from her mother has outraged people everywhere. We got to hear her voice again. ⁦Please watch. By the talented ⁦ @nadiasussman ⁩ ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

Video: Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a 6-Year-Old Has to Find Her Own Way

A Salvadoran woman becomes her family’s lifeline when her sister was taken to a detention facility in Texas and her niece to an Arizona shelter.

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7 years

Blown away...way away.

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4 years

There’s not enough tequila in my house.

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6 years

“Her voice exploded the Trump administration’s policies.” ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

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5 years

What an honor. Thanks very much @HU_IdaSociety !

Howard Univ. Ida B. Wells Society

@HU_IdaSociety

5 years

Today we acknowledge the work of Ginger Thompson @gingerthomp1 , who is currently a senior reporter at ProPublica. Prior to this, she worked at the New York Times for 16 years. She served as a correspondent in Washington and as the Mexico City bureau chief.

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It’s not just like the flu. @Propublica @lizziepresser

ProPublica

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5 years

New: “It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”

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A national Murrow Award for excellence in sound on the anniversary of the day we published this audio of the voices of children who had just been separated from their parents. Thank you RTDNA. #zerotolerance

ProPublica

@propublica

5 years

The Radio Television Digital News Association has named ProPublica the winner of two Edward R. Murrow Awards. The national competition, among the most prestigious in journalism, recognizes outstanding achievement in broadcast and digital news.

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Proud to see my boss ⁦ @SteveEngelberg ⁩ call Trump’s “enemy of the people” campaign against the press what it really is: a lie. ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

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So happy that @ProPublica and our Latin America partners are translating and distributing these stories. Me da mucho gusto que estas historias han sido traducidos y distribuidos en español.

BegoSinMiedo #🔻🇯🇴🇵🇸

@begonys

6 years

Retweeted ( @eldiarioes ): "Mami, quiero estar contigo": la niña de la grabación que destapó el horror de la política migratoria de Trump sigue a mil millas de su madre Lo cuenta @gingerthomp1

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Why we must vote, and report anyone who tries to stand in the way. White poll worker, says to black voter in Texas, "Maybe if I'd worn my blackface makeup today you could comprehend what I'm saying to you." @electionland

Houston Poll Worker Hurls Racist Remarks, Faces Criminal Charge

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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I know there are so many tragic things to tweet about. But indulge me in this, and smile.

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2/“The unfortunate reality is that under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as property.” Even after that order, I learned that separations continued.

Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed

Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They’re protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration advocates say it’s zero...

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3 years

Most states have laws requiring carbon monoxide alarms in homes. Not Texas. The results are tragic. Must read.

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A proud night at @propublica , whose documentary film team led by the brilliant ⁦ @almudenatoral ⁩ and ⁦ @mrodpons ⁩ won three (yes 3!) Emmys for their stunning film, The Night Doctrine. Bravo colleagues!

“The Night Doctrine”: ProPublica’s First Animated Documentary Traces Reporting on Afghanistan’s...

In 2022, reporter Lynzy Billing wrote a powerful investigation into squads of deadly commandos who had killed hundreds of Afghan civilians. “The Night Doctrine” is a short, animated documentary...

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