Jack Herrera
@jherrerx
Reporter. I cover the border and Latino communities. Recent work in @NewYorker, @NYTimes, @TexasMonthly, @POLITICOMag. Roll your RRs. Jackherrerx /at/ gmail
Father Brian Strassburger, a newly ordained Jesuit priest, got his first assignment on the border a few months after Biden took office. I wrote about the change he’s seen in the last three years, as he’s moved shelter to shelter, tent camp to tent camp. newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
Supreme Court lets Trump admin deport men detained in shipping container for 6 weeks to South Sudan ow.ly/4hf8106eImZ
Officers arrived and handcuffed Paola Clouatre, who handed her wedding ring to her husband for safekeeping. apnews.com/article/ice-de…
A flight carrying 126 Venezuelans that were sent by the U.S. to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison has just landed in Venezuela. Another flight is expected soon. In total, 252 Venezuelans are being returned.
The devastating lede of @sashavono's reporting from a ride-along with folks saving pets after the Guadalupe flood, for @TexasMonthly (link threaded)
Migrants deported from U.S. to Salvadoran prison remain under U.S. control, Salvadoran officials tell U.N. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
"If people arrive early and approach the checkpoints, they get shot. If they arrive on time, but there is an overflow... they get shot. If they arrive late, they shouldn't be there because it is an ‘evacuated zone’, they get shot," says @MSF's Aitor Zabalgogeaskoa in Gaza.
IDF soldiers in Gaza are being ordered by their commanders to shoot at crowds of Palestinian aid seekers, even when it is clear they pose no threat, @haaretzcom reports. "It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Our form of communication is gunfire." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
U.S. citizens & congressional candidates detained without warrants. Half a million fully vetted migrants who did everything -the right way- rendered deportable overnight. 😲 Journalist @jherrerx joins @ChuckRocha to break down why ICE is out of control. ▶️youtu.be/w6eTw-wxr1M
You gotta be patient with national Democrats, it takes more than a few days to run focus groups, and how are they supposed to know what they believe in before they know how it tests
On @BrianLehrer, Senator Gillibrand is asked about Mamdani. “I vote in Albany,” she replies.
Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street latimes.com/california/sto… @racheluranga
A comprehensive Politico story about Dems who urged Cuomo to resign in 2021 then endorsed him in this race. An orgy of self-inflicted humiliation. politico.com/news/2025/06/1…
Mamdani doing autocrat numbers in Bushwick, Ridgewood and Astoria
Didn’t do good things for my resiliency to be raised in a place where the weather was pleasant every single day
This week reporter @jherrerx join me to break down what’s going on with immigration and ICE raids. Listen, share and like. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be RELEASED from ICE detention
Listen to this! The great @jherrerx who has been reporting on who ICE has been arresting - answer may surprise you! 👇🏽
Patreon members get a sneak peek to our ep! Here's a clip of that ⚠️ 180 days. @ChuckRocha & @jherrerx look at the dark reality of ICE detaining US citizens. @SenAlexPadilla silenced. A NY mayoral candidate gets arrested while demanding for a warrant. patreon.com/posts/patreon-…
As the crucial summer harvest season gets underway in California’s vast agricultural regions, farmers and workers feel whiplashed by contradictory signals how Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration might affect them @jvgarrison @MelissaGomez004 latimes.com/california/sto…
That clicking sound isn't the cicadas, it's millions of 2024 tweets calling Trump the "anti-war candidate" being quietly deleted
Latest w/ @racheluranga includes a statement from the White House and DHS denying this. However, it doesn’t change the fact that advocates and lawyers are concerned that this is happening. Our story delves into that here latimes.com/california/sto…
Any claims that individuals have been ‘targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE. These types of smears are designed to demonize and villainize our brave ICE law enforcement. DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted,…
After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged texastribune.org/2025/06/16/tex…