Joshua Barajas

I was at a loss of words over Gwen Ifill's passing. Then I found some of hers. I know how to move forward now. @NewsHour misses you. #RIP

Scoop: The DOJ has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/…

For a year now, I’ve been documenting how U.S. citizens are getting caught up in immigration enforcement operations. But American children are increasingly collateral damage in the government’s campaign for mass deportations l propublica.org/article/americ…

Video of the March 2025 fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims by federal officials that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over" another agent. cbsnews.com/news/bodycam-v…

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…

Exclusive: ICE is taking steps to close Camp East Montana, a massive immigrant detention camp near the Mexican border that opened less than eight months ago, according to an internal document reviewed by The Post. wapo.st/4sqiQ3Y

We obtained footage showing a man who appeared to be refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam being dropped off by Border Patrol outside a Buffalo coffee shop after 8pm. The shop locks its door at 7pm. He never made it inside, and was found dead five days later: wapo.st/3OCwNx8

Maryland bans partnerships with ICE, citing ‘unaccountable agents’ washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/…

The Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez in October appeared to turn his steering wheel to the left, toward Martinez’s car, in body-camera footage of the incident released Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Chicago. @Suntimes story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/20…

New: ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves. propub.li/4a4V4nR

As the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists.

UPDATE: We spoke with Alberto, the man whose 8 skull fractures ICE blamed on a brick wall He says @ICEgov beat him with the same metal rod they used to smash his friend's car windows "There was never a wall" w/@NewsDudeAP @jack_brook96 @APCedar apnews.com/article/immigr…

The @washingtonpost has laid off hundreds of journalists. Please consider donating or sharing this fundraiser to help them through this challenging period. gofund.me/5a273301a

this is such a good read for any reporters thinking more about digital security right now 404media.co/fbi-couldnt-ge…

PBS News + NPR have been named joint recipients of this year’s First Amendment Award from the @RTDNA Foundation. The award recognizes individuals and organizations that work to defend press freedom and preserve the First Amendment. Congratulations to our team and public media colleagues! to.pbs.org/465NLtu

NEW: "The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner," reports @dmac1.

wow

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press. cbsn.ws/45URGJF

“Imagine the chaos”

There was systematic “torture and other abuses” at CECOT, and nearly half of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent there “had no criminal history,” according to the nonprofit Human Rights Watch, citing ICE data. cbsn.ws/4sNLoFz

DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences." After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.