Jazmine Ulloa
I am a national reporter for The New York Times, covering the border and immigration. My book, “El Paso: Five families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,” from Dutton, is coming in 2026.
- A federal appeals court in California has ruled that Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, exceeded her authority when she sought to end TPS for Venezuelans and Haitians, saying people have lost jobs, homes, and their ability to provide for their families. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
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- Alex Pretti, 37, was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about his work and his patients. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
- One second before the shooting, the agent in the gray coat appears to pull a gun from near Alex Pretti’s right hip. He then begins to move away from the skirmish with the recovered weapon. At the same time, another agent unholsters his firearm and points it at Pretti’s back.
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- In interviews, nurses and doctors in the Twin Cities said federal agents have broken hospital protocol, refused to provide warrants and gotten into shouting matches with staff. Some compared the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown to the coronavirus pandemic. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
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- There’s the crackdown on the streets. Then, there are the legal battles in the courts to expand the pool of people the Trump administration can deport. Today, in Pasadena, lawyers urged a court to preserve deportation protections for some 600,000 Venezuelans. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
- Reporting from the streets of Minneapolis: “Like a military occupation.” Arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
- The majority of people with Somali heritage in the United States are US-born, and more than 92 percent are US citizens. But a fraud scandal has made the Somali community in Minnesota a focus of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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- “What I saw in her work was a writer that was trying to illuminate the lives of others,” Kent Wascom, director of the creative writing MFA program at Old Dominion University, told me today about Renee Good. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
- The president has sent federal agents to Democratic-led cities in several states, prompting lawsuits and stirring anger among local leaders. Jacey Fortin has a good roundup of what has happened in every one. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
- Security forces have boarded buses, searched phones and interrogated people, looking for evidence that they welcomed the capture of Nicolás Maduro, writes Jack Nicas. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
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- A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a person in Minneapolis, DHS said. Hundreds gathered at the scene in protest. The shooting took place in a middle-class neighborhood, about a mile from the place where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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- “U.S. policy, underpinned by the Monroe Doctrine, has shaped the region in the decades since World War II, leading to overt and covert interventions that have often — but not always — resulted in bad outcomes and unintended consequences.” www.npr.org/2026/01/02/n...
- President Trump has launched a new era of U.S. intervention in Latin America. The divergent views from the left and the right suggested any kind of cohesive response unlikely, an insightful analysis from Jack Nicas. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
- The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men’s fates are not, Jonah E. Bromwich writes.
- Nearly eight million Venezuelans have fled their troubled country, the largest exodus in Latin America’s modern history. Caught between joy and fear, Venezuelan asylum seekers in the United States now worry about what comes next. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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- Exclusive: The Trump administration is ramping up its efforts to deport people to other nations, filing almost 5,000 motions in November alone seeking to dismiss asylum cases and arguing that applicants can get asylum there. w/ @Allison McCann + @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
- Sweeping immigration changes by the Trump administration have resulted in the cancellation of oath ceremonies, the last step in the process of becoming a citizen. The actions are the latest attempt to tighten who can call themselves an American. w/ Orlando Mayorquín www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/u...
- “It is just like a traffic jam, and it is just going to get worse and worse and worse.” Icymi, scoop from @haleaziz.bsky.social and I last night: Citizenship ceremonies and immigration interviews are being cancelled as the Trump admin pauses immigration applications. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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- Taken together, the actions of the Trump administration in the wake of the National Guard shooting represent some of the most significant changes to immigration policy since he regained office. w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social + Allison McCann www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...
- Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Chicago. @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks to pastors, activists, and lawyers about what’s really going on in the city and what their response should be. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
- Federal cases challenging the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps could redefine the limits on the discretion officers have to stop, question and detain people over their citizenship and how much race and ethnicity can factor in those decisions. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
- This line in this NYT Mag piece about the LA Dodgers and the nation’s immigration crackdown… “He was a shy 19-year-old who spoke almost no English when he was brought up to the Dodgers in September 1980, attributes that today might land him in the back of an ICE van.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/m...
- Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens, by @jesus-jimz.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
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- Our Chicago bureau chief was out for a run near Lake Michigan, when she watched a black S.U.V. make a U-turn and chase down three young men. It’s a scene now unfolding across the city every day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
- Four months ago, Yessenia Ruano put her home in Wisconsin up for rent, packed a few bags and left for her native El Salvador. Now, she is among immigrant women who say ICE is wrongfully detaining and deporting domestic violence or human trafficking victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
- For decades, the United States tried to push undocumented people to self-deport. Success has often depended on coercion. I wrote a short history of the long shadow of self-deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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- The first review for my book is in, and I got the coveted star from Kirkus! So deeply honored and over the moon. What a summary: “A passionate and urgent account that transforms the embers of a bypassed history into flames that consume the present.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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- A majority of voters favor deporting those in the U.S. illegally, but say President Trump’s tactics have gone too far, a new Times/Siena poll found. w/ Ruth Igielnik www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
- In his mass deportation campaign, President Trump has sought to end humanitarian programs that have allowed people from troubled nations to live and work temporarily in the US. The most litigated: Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. Here’s a look at who still has it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
- Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at a federal immigration facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to LULAC. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
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- As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
- Miguel Ángel García, a house painter and father of four from Mexico, is one of two detainees critically injured by a Dallas gunman. Sources familiar tell us Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela was also hurt; Norlan Guzman-Fuentes of El Sal was killed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
- After a sniper killed a detainee in Dallas, congressional Democrats in Texas and leaders with top immigrant and civil rights groups did not disagree with ICE officials: the harmful rhetoric needs to stop — against law enforcement officers, and against immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...
- From earlier: “It was one shot after another after another after another.” Witnesses in Dallas describe rapid gunfire. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...
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- “And on a personal note… I strongly believe that the loss of local newspapers is an underdiscussed blow to our communities. With this comic, I hope to make readers consider that, as well as how we got here and how scary it is that nothing has effectively replaced what we once had.”
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- A dispatch from Chicago crackdown: Residents of Pilsen, home to Mexican immigrants to the Midwest for decades, spoke of undocumented relatives and neighbors who now are mostly staying at home, and of a broad sense of worry — but also of renewed solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
- Before his immigration check-in, Kilmar Abrego Garcia delivered an emotional plea to immigrants and the immigrant rights community. “Regardless of what happens here with ICE, promise me this that you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity — not only for me but for everyone,” he said.
- When Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned home, he was greeted with flowers, metallic streamers and cheers. But his homecoming celebration has been muted. For him, the odyssey is not over: He’s on an ankle monitor, and his lawyers say the gov wants to deport him to Uganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...
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- Zack’s next comic is about a young reporter on the night cops beat at a South Texas newspaper. When a Border Patrol agent turns up gruesomely murdered, he must untangle the violent mystery with a beloved local priest. You can follow the launch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...
- “My friend told me to be careful because they are squarely picking up everyone, simply for having a Hispanic face.” Immigrant workers in DC say they find themselves at the center of two crackdowns: one on crime, another on illegal immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
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- Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, has filed a claim against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention. It could be the first of dozens filed by migrants deported to CECOT in March without due process. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...
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- Big news from me: I wrote a book exploring identity, belonging, and the power of myth from the place that made me — El Paso, Texas. It is set for release March 3. But you can pre-order it now.
- In an interview, Job Garcia, an American citizen who was tackled and detained him for more than 24 hours, said he decided to take action for the next generation of Latinos. “I do not want them to ever feel unsafe in the country they were born and belong simply because of how they look,” he said.
- New: Two novel challenges to the Trump administration have been filed in LA, highlighting the tactics of federal officers in Southern California that immigrant rights groups and ordinary citizens say have been excessive, sometimes brutal and often unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
- New: Two novel challenges to the Trump administration have been filed in LA, highlighting the tactics of federal officers in Southern California that immigrant rights groups and ordinary citizens say have been excessive, sometimes brutal and often unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
