Alisa Zaira Reznick

Journalist. Border, migration & southern AZ @kjzzphoenix's @fronterasdesk. Scheming always w/ @OnSpecStories
Hi/ tips/cat pix? a dot reznick at kjzz dot org

[Emily Bregel @EmilyBregel]

Immigrants confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after the U.S. deported them there without notice/due process, report worsening, dangerous conditions: "We’re living a nightmare." https://t.co/UTzZYLrUwV

[Emily Holshouser @emilyytayylor]

"Within days of being in the facility, she caught a respiratory illness and lost her voice. She was supposed to see her doctor, in Harlingen, the week she was detained." Heartbreaking reporting from @GaigeDavila

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

No, no, no. DHS should not be relying on these made-up numbers from FAIR when it has access to federal government administrative data and real economists.

[Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa]

We spent months documenting how the Trump administration transformed the immigration court system from the inside out. 85+ interviews. Judges, federal officials, and the families caught in the gears. Huge props to @NickNehamas for steering the ship. https://t.co/VhRNRmqjH0

[Caroline Haskins @car0linehaskins]

FOIA scoop (no paywall): The day Renee Good was killed, a Minnesota state police official repeatedly texted a FBI agent. He wanted to co-manage the crime scene & ensure his agents were included in interviews. For at least 2 days, maybe longer, the FBI didn't respond. Link below.

[Carlos A. Moreno @CarlosAMoreno]

ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware : NPR https://t.co/PRixtqIabi

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel carried out an unprecedented wave of attacks across Lebanon, saying it launched 100 air strikes in a span of 10 minutes. Al Jazeera’s @heidipett reports from the scene of a strike in Beirut.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits. https://t.co/43EegT6q0G

[Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp]

.@rcfp attorneys are representing @GuardianUS in a new FOIA lawsuit that seeks records related to pregnant, postpartum, and nursing people in ICE custody. https://t.co/zhkrb6iEYQ

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

War crimes complaint filed in France over a deadly Israeli strike in Beirut https://t.co/rxAPScmsYe

[Clara-Sophia Daly @clarasophiadaly]

MY LATEST: Fired as an immigration judge, Jeremiah Johnson went to the U.S.-Mexico border to understand the migrants he once saw in court — and what he may have missed.

https://t.co/BqFsQKREXP

[Bassam Khawaja @Bassam_Khawaja]

UN experts are calling for an international independent investigation into Israel’s killing of journalists in Lebanon: https://t.co/kzqooM8vwi

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

At the risk of being naïve and getting egg on my face come June... I think Trump got shredded in the birthright citizenship case. And I think the Court only took the case TO shred him, and look reasonable by comparison.
My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/jS3jM8z82r

[Wayne Schutsky @WayneSchutsky]

An upcoming TPUSA rally in Phoenix with President Trump appears to be part of a larger effort to collect voter data by a new non profit led by Amy Smith, who is married to a former state lawmaker and Turning Point staffer who forged petition signatures.
https://t.co/iAicZAW8pY

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a visually impaired Rohingya refugee, was found dead days after being dropped off in a parking lot by Border Patrol in February.

His death has now been ruled a homicide, prompting calls for an investigation into the circumstances. https://t.co/pFGcRZmcex

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Remember the largely blind, elderly genocide survivor from Myanmar, Mr. Shah Alam, whom immigration officers picked up and then dumped on the street near a CLOSED cafe in Buffalo in the middle of the winter? Mr. Shah Alam died trying to get home, and the medical examiner has found that he perished of dehydration and hypothermia. Immigration agents never bothered to call his family. I'm sure they didn't intend for him to die, but the incident speaks to the casual disregard they show for the lives and dignity of those they deal with. Having covered the Rohingya genocide, I think of this man who survived so much, then is admitted to America -- and perishes because immigration agents can't be bothered to make a call. https://t.co/Km4IxivPMj

[Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg]

NEW: The number of families booked into the country’s only immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas, plummeted in February by more than 75% compared with a month earlier, according to ICE data obtained by ProPublica.
https://t.co/fXBHYYpPj0

[Vivian Nereim @viviannereim]

In a shockingly frank essay, Oman's foreign minister — who mediated talks between the U.S. and Iran — suggests that "America has lost control of its own foreign policy" and that its allies must tell the truth and bring it back to the negotiating table:
https://t.co/EkepUXbTSB

[CBS News @CBSNews]

12-year-old Imrain Paktiawal told CBS News' @camiloreports he still has no explanation for how his father, Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, died just one day after being taken into ICE custody in Texas. The 41-year-old Afghan immigrant was detained while preparing to take his children to school and died the next day at a Dallas hospital. His family says he was healthy and that he came to the U.S. legally under the Biden administration's Operation Allies Refuge, which welcomed tens of thousands of Afghans it evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover. ICE said Paktiawal's parole status expired on Aug. 20, 2025 and that he was detained after two arrests by local authorities on fraud and theft charges. He was not convicted. https://t.co/wxTMoDZYBx

[Alex DeLuca @AlexLDeLuca]

Breaking: A Mexican teenager has died while in ICE custody in South Florida.

He appears to be the youngest person to die in ICE custody since Trump took office last year.

https://t.co/F85wPVKzgU