Taylor Jung

Saying a half goodbye to this app. I'll only be posting breaking news updates + my stories from now on. You can find me elsewhere: 🦋: taylorjung 📷: _tayjung ⏰: tayreporting

"Victoria Lee should be alive...we do not, today, find any hope or reason in the workings of the law in New Jersey." - Statement from @aapinewjersey @AWCA16 @blm_paterson @FaithInNJ @KACE4Community @MinKwonCenter @NJAIJ @NJ_ISJ @StopAAPIHate njurbannews.com/2025/07/15/vic…

Victoria Lee should be alive today. Read our statement with allies on the failure to secure a grand jury indictment after a year-long investigation, and the dire need for our state to take action on police accountability and alternative crisis response: tinyurl.com/JFV0715

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-ki…

My latest, for @ChalkbeatNY: El Puente, a leading environmental justice organization in Brooklyn, is fighting for its future after losing a $3M EPA grant due to cuts by the Trump administration. Decades of youth leadership and community work are at risk. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/0…

Here's my story on the decision, to be updated as statements arrive: njurbannews.com/2025/07/15/vic…

A grand jury declined to charge Fort Lee Police Officer Tony Pickens, Jr. who killed 25-year-old Victoria Lee last year while responding to her mental health crisis, according to a breaking news press release from @NewJerseyOAG.

People detained at Alligator Alcatraz aren’t showing up in a government locator. Families and attorneys are struggling to find them. We obtained a list of 750+ names, and are publishing it here: miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

"We look at people working outside while we drive and say, ‘Wow, look at that, that’s something I don’t want to be doing.’ But yet, we don’t care enough to provide the standards that they need and deserve." newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/04/sum…

.@ZohranKMamdani’s win is inspiring NJ voters and organizers, who hope that local policy makers will follow his platform. ✍️ by @priyanka_65, edited by me: njurbannews.com/2025/07/02/mam…

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to allow President Trump to end birthright citizenship in some parts of the country, even as legal challenges to the constitutionality of the move proceed in other regions. nytimes.com/live/2025/06/2…

Reposting this important story: Almost half of the people currently in ICE custody have neither been convicted of nor charged with any crime. ICE has arrested only 6% of known immigrant murderers. Striking report by @JuliaEAinsley and @strickdc nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

photo is peak millennial

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NOW: Senate hearing on Trump's rescissions request for immediate spending cuts to foreign aid and two years of funding for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Watch here and I'm in the room, will be tweeting. c-span.org/event/senate-c…

this is so niche. i have no one to speak to about this

If this has happened to you today, get in touch with us at [email protected]. Read more on our live blog: hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-nyc-…

and so it begins

Forcing people to move their cars during a heat wave is cruel 😭 many folks sit and wait in their cars.

ICE took her mother in Chicago. Now a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or a legal path to reunite in Honduras. A story about the children left behind by deportations—and the lack of infrastructure to care for them in the U.S or for reunification. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/ice…

JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.