student journalists from Columbia University’s WKCR-FM NY are still working hard to broadcast live right now

“Our journalists still in Pulitzer Hall are still being told if they leave they’ll be arrested.” cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

A periodic reminder to be skeptical if someone tells you a simple narrative about how border crossings are up or down bc of X. Is their evidence merely correlative? What motivations may they have to push the narrative? Any factors they may be leaving out, intentionally or not?

⚔️ NUEVO EPISODIO ⚔️

Para millones de venezolanos, la solución para sobrellevar una crisis económica demasiado real estaba en un mundo de fantasía. Lo que no sabían era que eso los llevaría a una guerra mundial.

Escúchalo aquí: radioambulante.org/audio/un-millo…

There's so many moments in this #PostReports episode that gave me chills, as Samantha Schmidt (w the help of Arturo Torres) reconstructs the January day when powerful gangs pushed Ecuador to the brink, and what that tells us about a changing Latin America🎧⬇️
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happy publication day to Ana Minian !

MUST READ: Deeply reported, harrowing story by ⁦Arelis R. Hernández⁩

Texas county at center of border fight is overwhelmed by migrant deaths - Washington Post washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…

In today’s The Washington Post, with record-breaking migration, comes record-breaking death. A Texas border county has struggled to keep up.

Our dispatch w/colleagues Marina Dias & Daniele Volpe, who made images along with the amazing Jabin Botsford

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'The World Central Kitchen team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in 2 armored cars branded with the WCK logo. Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the warehouse, where the team had unloaded 100+ tons of food aid.' wck.org/news/gaza-team…

Pitched this story to my class almost 2 years ago. As a Richmond resident and as someone who experienced the fires and flares, it was important for me to ensure my community was given the coverage it deserved. This is why I decided to go to the j-school!

I’m on Post Reports discussing what we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse — and what it says about the lives and tragic deaths of immigrants in construction jobs.

Endless thanks to Elana Gordon Rennie Svirnovskiy maggie penman & Martine Powers

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In one year, Maritza Guzman has seen 12 workers die in Baltimore — most of them immigrants and one of them her husband.

The latest deaths, she said, underscore how immigrants are some of the most vulnerable, least-protected workers in the US. W/ Scott Dance shorturl.at/jrzRY

Jesus Campos, a construction worker who knows the crew, said the men were from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico. They are in their 30s and 40s and have spouses and children.

“They are hard-working, humble men,” he said.

More updates to come for The Baltimore Banner.

“We are seeing children on the brink of death, just skin and bones … and these are the ones who have managed to get to hospital. There is a real fear for those that can’t,” says James Elder after visit to Gaza. “This is man-made and preventable.” theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

BREAKING — Texas has again been blocked from enforcing its controversial immigration law known as SB4.

An appeals court panel just dissolved the pause that had suspended a lower court order that found SB4 to be unconstitutional.

That order against SB4 is now in effect.

Hunted by gangs, refugees expelled from state offices in Haiti. A comprehensive visual report by my fine colleagues at @AyiboPost.
ayibopost.com/the-ordeal-of-…

“There’s no one but the gangs.” An eyewitness account from Harold Isaac of his country descending into violence. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

A grisly marker of gang-ravaged Haiti's violence and dysfunction: People shot dead in streets of the capital and there’s no one to take the corpses away Widlore Mérancourt and Samantha Schmidt report wapo.st/3PfHa7o

Biden saying 'an illegal' in his speech is notable. Shortly after he was elected, his administration cut the use of 'illegal alien' in government communications.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…

Case in point - look at Venezuela.

Biden administration got deportation flights up and going this past fall and then...the flights stopped a few weeks ago.

None since.

nytimes.com/2024/02/07/wor…