Jasmine Aguilera

This is a great article and got too little attention when it first came out. @propublica.org is doing amazing work.

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.

We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.

New from me: www.propublica.org/article/emer...

Emergency Managers: Help ProPublica Prepare to Report on the Next Disaster If you are a part of the network of disaster response and recovery partners, we need your help to build a comprehensive picture of the real conditions across the country.

NEW: Disasters are a matter of "when," not "if."

Are you an emergency manager or researcher? Help us build a national picture of the country’s preparedness, from funding to alert systems.

Tell us what we should be covering.

In 2024, UTEP investigated a $160 million grant. It was conducted outside the university’s policies, and federal investigators later couldn’t substantiate the findings. The grant was killed. Here are the findings of an El Paso Matters investigation. elpasomatters.org/2026/02/22/h...

What you need to know about Texas ICE detention deaths Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths occurred in Texas.

Thirty-two people died in ICE custody nationwide last year, surpassing the previous high of 20 in 2005, according to federal data.

Nearly a quarter of last year’s deaths occurred in Texas.

Have We Underestimated El Paso All Along? The site of revolutionary ferment, intellectual tumult, and a radical ethic of caring, El Paso has always been a glorious mosaic.

Texas is unknowable w/o visits to El Paso. Perhaps the U.S. isn't fully understood w/o ELP. This review of El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by @jazmineulloa.bsky.social fills it out. ELP is underestimated. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Workers participate in a practice picket

🪧 Out in Austin with my @propublicaguild.org, Texas Tribune guild and Austin American Statesman guild colleagues in our fight for fair contracts. 🪧

More Immigrants Are Challenging Their ICE Detention Than Ever Before Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Tru...

NEW: Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.

The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.

Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.

NEW: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.

We are tracking the increase in these cases 👇

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

She handed me a free bowl of pozole once many, many years ago. One of the best nights of my life

Was that Toñita from Caribbean Social Club?? 😭

An excellent example of service journalism 💪

Applications for the state's new voucher program are now open. Don't forget, if you live in Texas and are impacted in any way by changes to public education, we @propublica.org and @texastribune.org would love to hear from you
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

A note from our editors:

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

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this month has been unreal

Trump’s mass deportation campaign, one year in - The Texas Tribune Skyrocketing detentions, violent arrests, troops in cities. One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immigrants and citizens.

A clear-eyed recap of Pres. Trump's first year of a historic deportation campaign by my colleagues @propublica.org and @texastribune.org. Narrated by @perla-trevizo.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/28/t...

Voter guide: Texas’ March 3 primary elections Our detailed guide shows what will be on the ballot, mail-in voting information, voter registration requirements, important dates to know and much more.

There are more than 18 statewide elected officials up for election, along with Texas’ members of Congress, state lawmakers, district-based judges and local elected officials.

Here’s what you need to know about primaries and the voting process.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use

A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.

A 16-year-old citizen

DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"

w/ @mckenziefunk.com

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.

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Why Texas A&M president Mark Welsh lost his job The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as they grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accus...

Former Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III wasn’t pushed out over just one incident.

The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills. Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country garnishing patients’...

Community health centers were created to be medical safety nets for people who struggle to afford primary care.

But we found that several are suing patients and garnishing their paychecks – which experts say contradicts their mission.

www.propublica.org/article/fede...

During an ice breaker once we had to go around and pick the person we thought would survive a zombie apocalypse. I did not expect to be chosen at all, but someone spoke up to say the group should join together to save me because I was who they needed to rebuild post-apocalyptic society 🧟

Turning Point USA talked expansion with Texas education chief The meeting happened days before Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledged $1 million to help establish chapters of the conservative student group on every Texas college and high school campus.

Texas education chief met with Turning Point USA to discuss group's expansion in high schools www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/t...

Abbott embraces Trump’s views of presidential power despite support for states’ rights - The Texas Tribune Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.

Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Gov. Greg Abbott’s political identity.

Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

This year ICE has sent more immigrant children into the federal shelter system than in the PREVIOUS FOUR YEARS COMBINED! New data suggests families are being separated.