@jazmineulloa
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 out now.
It’s here! Join me, Jia Lynn Yang + @haleaziz.bsky.social at Politics and Prose TODAY to discuss El Paso and it what this city had to teach us about our nation’s border and immigration battles today. See you at 7 pm at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW. politics-prose.com/jazmine-ullo...
So incredibly proud of my dear friend @jazmineulloa.bsky.social's ambitious and beautifully woven new book that traces the complex and rich history of El Paso through the lives of five families, elevating the border city to its "rightful position" at the center of our American story. An excerpt here
El Paso — the book and the place — front and center. Went on CNN’s “Inside Politics” with Dana Bash the other day to break down Texas primary results and got a nice mention of the release. ¡Que viva El Paso y que viva la frontera!
New in books from @jazmineulloa.bsky.social: On August 3, 2019, I was nearly 2,000 miles away in Washington, D.C., where I worked as a national political reporter in the bureau of The Boston Globe. It was a Saturday, and I was in a movie theater when my phone lit up with calls and messages.
Kristi Noem — the first cabinet member to be ousted in Trump’s second term — had been among the key figures in the admin fulfilling his mass deportation effort, which he campaigned on aggressively and which was influenced by Stephen Miller, a top WH adviser. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
I can’t stop thinking about Gustavo’s truck.
He was pulled over on a road in Minneapolis, shackled by federal agents, and almost shipped more than 1,300 miles away — to El Paso.
My hometown now echoes in every city seeing harsher immigration enforcement.
Camp East Montana, which is at the military base Fort Bliss in El Paso, has been mired in controversy since it opened in August. Three people have died while in custody. Now it could be closing, from @poojasalhotra.bsky.social + Madeleine Ngo. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
Beautiful story I’ve been meaning to share. Orlando Mayorquín closely follows one California family’s decision to self-deport. It shows what can happen when you stay with a story until you know it inside and out — and can capture the full weight of it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“The foundations for all these actions — the policies, the rhetoric, the treatment of migrants — were laid down long before, brick by brick, decade by decade in my hometown of El Paso,” writes @jazmineulloa.bsky.social for @thebarbedwire.com
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Immigration reporters like @jazmineulloa.bsky.social have been on the frontlines of the harshest deportation campaign this country has seen since World War II. The foundations for it were laid down long before in her hometown of El Paso.
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"I knew I needed to place El Paso at the center of American history. A place where we never held it before." @jazmineulloa.bsky.social
This book is about power and myth and the stories we tell about the border — and the ones we don’t. El Paso is out today from Dutton. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711804...
A night for the books. Standing room only at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. We sold out of El Paso. Grateful to Greenlight for hosting me. Grateful to @astead-mirror.bluesky.bot for the thoughtful conversation. Grateful to everyone who came out, who waited in line, who stayed late to talk and toast.
"Hey, Grandma, can you drive me over the border so I can write about these women disappearing?"
As a high school student!
Ulloa wrote the hell out of this book and it should be at the top of your book pile by the end of the day. Sooner!
Gracias!!
🥹♥️ love the throwback to the Velcro wall decked with notes and drafts and timelines
Thank you!!
It’s here!! PUB DAY.
No better way to kick it off than with this interview. Daniel says here he got choked up thinking about my journalism origin story, but I choked up so many more times listening back to our conversation.
Thank you for such thoughtful questions and careful read of my book.
Tonight in Brooklyn. Last call! @astead-mirror.bluesky.bot and I will be talking “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory.” Sign up, sign up, sign up. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
Journalist @jazmineulloa.bsky.social joins me on tomorrow's show to discuss her book El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory.
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An extraordinary review today.
It recognizes what fronterizos have long known: El Paso isn’t peripheral to the American story. It is the story — of migration, identity, memory, survival.
Deeply honored, grateful, and proud to see the border centered, not sidelined. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/b...
If you’re in Brooklyn on Monday, stop by!
Can’t wait for this conversation with Astead, who hung out with my friends and family in El Paso ahead of the 2024 presidential election for a border and immigration episode of The Run-Up.
A short write-up of "El Paso" in Foreign Affairs calls it a “beautifully woven history”: “A journalist with deep roots in El Paso, Ulloa weaves together the history of the southwest U.S.-Mexican border with the stories of five families, including her own." www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/two-...
I’ve followed José’s work for years. So proud to be mentioned in this shoutout, and I could not agree more.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled. https://cnn.it/4kHhwqR
🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾
Celebrating this fantastic review (!!!) in Texas Monthly ahead of my book’s release on March 3: "…a deeply moving record of our fitful attempts to become a state and a nation that welcome people from all over the world." www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
The violence against immigrants, protesters and civilian observers in Minneapolis has sparked renewed calls for oversight of the Border Patrol. It is a pattern abuse with a long history in Mexican American communities on the border, icymi from me and Eileen Sullivan. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
Lawyers for the federal government have filed a motion to expedite the deportation of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in the blue conejo hat whose image rocketed around the world after federal agents detained him and his father in Minnesota last month. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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...