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Gerardo del Valle

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Documentary Producer & Director. Currently at ProPublica

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A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Skyrocketing detentions, violent arrests, troops in cities. President Donald Trump promised an immigration crackdown that would make history. One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immi...

MUST WATCH: A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign, by @g-dvalle.bsky.social

28.01.2026 23:25 👍 93 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 3
A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign YouTube video by ProPublica

A year into Trump's mass deportation push has left viral videos, memes, a dramatic increase in funds for immigration enforcement, and thousands affected. With @perla-trevizo.bsky.social , we asked: what's the toll?

My latest for @propublica.org

youtu.be/YHunuGIvvf4

01.02.2026 00:13 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

Of the more than 230 men, at least 197 had not been convicted of any crimes in the U.S,
nearly half were deported to El Salvador while their immigration cases were still ongoing, and 166 of them had tattoos, an unreliable indicator of gang affiliation, according to experts.

31.07.2025 19:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What @perla-trevizo.bsky.social , @micarosenberg.bsky.social , @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social , and a group of Venezuelan journalists from @cazadoresdefakenews.info and Alianza Rebelde Investiga uncovered was chilling:

31.07.2025 19:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

We published their stories as part of an effort to understand - when neither the U.S. nor Salvadoran governments had released the names of the men sent to CECOT - who these men were, and why they had been sent to the infamous prison.
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

31.07.2025 19:00 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Three of our colleagues are being placed on PIPs today and @propublica.org management has refused to allow stewards in those meetings. We're not shutting up about this — our colleagues deserve better and we're extremely disappointed in management for denying us this basic union right.

20.05.2025 16:51 👍 72 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 6
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Mother Speaks Out Against Trump’s Detention of Her Son at Guantanamo The Trump administration detained Yoiker Sequera at Guantanamo Bay for almost two weeks before he was deported to Venezuela. His mother reflects on finding out her son had been sent to the infamous pr...

DHS has said that migrants sent to Guantanamo are criminals. A mother speaks out about finding that her
son had been labeled “the worst of the worst” w/o any proof. 
My latest for @propublica.org & @texastribune.org

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

28.02.2025 22:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Revived Immigration Policies From His Last Four Years in Office, and Went Beyond ProPublica and The Texas Tribune took a snapshot of the blitz of executive orders President Donald Trump has signed since taking office, by tallying nearly three dozen from his first day.

The blitz of Trump's immigration executive orders has continued, so fast and sweeping that it’s been hard to keep up, much less gauge their potential impact.

Let's break down nearly three dozen of the most consequential changes he made on Day 1 ⤵️

(With @texastribune.org)

10.02.2025 23:00 👍 377 🔁 109 💬 11 📌 3
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Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Revived Immigration Policies From His Last Four Years in Office, and Went Beyond ProPublica and The Texas Tribune took a snapshot of the blitz of executive orders President Donald Trump has signed since taking office, by tallying nearly three dozen from his first day.

NEW: If you want to better understand the flurry of executive orders on immigration from the Trump administration, this is a great place to start. From @micarosenberg.bsky.social and Perla Trevizo of @propublica.org and the @texastribune.org.

www.propublica.org/article/dona...

07.02.2025 12:48 👍 121 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 0
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How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...

The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations.

“We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.”

New, from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

31.01.2025 11:59 👍 2994 🔁 894 💬 118 📌 77
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What ProPublica’s Reporters Will Be Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them From Trump’s relationships with billionaires to immigration, here are some of the issues and topics our reporters will be keeping an eye on as his second presidency begins.

Do you work for the fed government and want to offer a tip or guidance on what is changing at your agency? This is how you can to contact @ProPublica.org reporters securely:
www.propublica.org/article/seco...

23.01.2025 18:58 👍 660 🔁 296 💬 9 📌 11