Ginger Thompson
@gingerthomp1
Managing Editor at @propublica. Former Mexico City Bureau Chief at @nytimes. Raised in El Paso. At home on both sides of the border.
Reporter: what did you say to your mother when you first saw her? Jimena: That I love her and I missed her a lot. #zero tolerance. @ProPublica
As the Legislature gathers for a special session, this story is particularly relevant. Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Take Action on Flooding propublica.org/article/texas-… @LChurchilll @lomikriel w/ @TexasTribune
$3,780 an hour. That's the hourly fee for a lawyer handling a lawsuit on behalf of Texas attorney general's office. Texas AG Ken Paxton Is Increasingly Relying on Costly Private Lawyers propublica.org/article/ken-pa… @zachdespart
Joint statement on Gaza from @AFP, @AP, @BBCWorld and @Reuters
You can look through our full database here and reach out if you have information to share 10/: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-imm…
This work is the result of a big team of journalists and editors in the US and Venezuela @msanchez @Perla_Trevizo MIA @ronnarisquez @adrian_CFN Adriana Núñez Moros, Carlos Centeno @JeffErnsthausen @gluissandoval design/photo by Ruth Talbot, Cengiz Yar @zisiga_m and many more 9/
We are also publishing our database in Spanish 8/: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-imm…
We asked the Trump administration about each of the men. The White House and DHS did not respond to questions about the individuals but said Trump is committed to "removing dangerous criminal and terrorist illegals who pose a threat to the American public.” 7/
We spoke to the families of more than 100 of the men; those men range in age from 18 to 46. They and their families are now dealing with the fallout of being jailed incommunicado in a foreign prison for four months and enduring harsh treatment 6/
Trump said they were all part of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. How were they identified? We found at least 166 of the men have tattoos, though the admin said they didn’t only rely on tattoos to label them. Experts told us that tattoos are not an indicator of membership 5/
Our analysis of U.S. immigration court data found nearly half of the men, or 118, were in the middle of their cases, including dozens with asylum claims, and some were only days away from a final hearing, which should have protected them from deportation. 4/
We looked at each case and learned: the Trump administration knew at least 197 had not been convicted of U.S. crimes and only a handful had violent offenses. We identified a few additional convictions, both in the U.S. and abroad, not reflected in government data we obtained. 3/
Today, we’re publishing a first-of-its-kind interactive database with profiles of 238 of the Venezuelan deportees. These are their stories. 2/ projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-imm…
You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst." But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵
1/ “I would like the whole world to know that my son is not a criminal. He’s not a terrorist.” That’s what the mother of Yolfran Alejandro Escobar Falcón told us. Yolfran is one of the 230+ Venezuelan men who the Trump admin. imprisoned in El Salvador.
Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record: “They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.” “Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.” A month later, he was gone. propublica.org/article/venezu…
The “Americans in the media” referenced are my @propublica colleagues @Renee_Dudley and Doris Burke. You can read their reporting that prompted this DOD action here … propublica.org/article/micros…
Update on DOD’s cloud services
NEW: The USDA Wouldn’t Let Her Give Up Her House When She Couldn’t Pay Her Mortgage. Instead, It Crushed Her With Debt. propublica.org/article/usda-m… by partner @sawyerloftus18 @bangordailynews
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Today we published our 2nd story investigating the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to Salvadoran. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum propublica.org/article/venezu…
NEW: Microsoft “Digital Escorts” Could Expose Defense Dept. Data to Chinese Hackers propublica.org/article/micros… by @Renee_Dudley w/ Doris Burke
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" waste, fraud, etc: it costs $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 theatlantic.com/health/archive…