Jacob Soboroff

I’m writing a book about the devastating 2025 L.A. fires, which I covered in real time as I watched my childhood neighborhood burn to the ground. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster will be released January 6, 2026. harpercollins.com/products/fires…

Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance by my friend @lopez_wd is a critically important book that could not be more timely. preorder now: press.jhu.edu/books/title/53…

“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/…

Narciso Barranco, the father of 3 U.S. Marines, has been released from ICE custody on bond. youtube.com/watch?v=3ZWr6_…

NEW: Exclusive @CBSNews video shows the moment Narcisso Barranco, who was violently detained by ICE agents last month, was reunited with his son. The father of 3 U.S. Marines is now seeking privacy and medical care as his legal case continues with a hearing set for August

“We organized peaceful protests, we came together at rallies, we took the Trump administration to court — all of this led to today’s retreat.” nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/…

Father of three Marines beaten by masked federal agents, set to be released from immigration facility latimes.com/california/sto…

BREAKING: Immigration officials can't detain people based on race, speaking Spanish in Los Angeles, judge rules nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i…

UFW told us that this worker has died

The United Farm Workers union said it was told one worker fell several stories from a greenhouse and is not expected to survive. Seems to be the most serious injury to date tied to immigration sweeps that have unfolded over the last month. latimes.com/california/sto…

The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE. We all must speak out against these chilling tactics. freedom.press/issues/ice-wan…

these videos collected and verified by @NBCNews represent a small fraction of many following a pattern: heavily armed authorities, little visible ID, often wearing masks while detaining people, sometimes violently, then putting them into vehicles. nbcnews.com/specials/trump…

ICE leaves cars abandoned, lawn mowers running when it arrests workers: A new push to secure property latimes.com/california/sto… @SalHernandez

DAILY MEMO: ICE puts on a show at McArthur Park as we pass the 30-day mark. Welcome to day 32 of the ICE Siege of L.A. ~ @el_tragon_de_LA

The purpose of today's military deployment to Los Angeles' MacArthur Park was to demonstrate a show of force, documents leaked to me reveal: kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-op…