Julia Preston

Journalist covering immigration. Prior: Contributing Writer @MarshallProj , National Immigration Correspondent @nytimes . I like facts.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Footage from a security camera captured the shooting Monday during an immigration enforcement operation in the city of Biddeford. The incident marked the second time in a week that ICE used deadly force and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Maine Democrats are seizing on a new fatal shooting by ICE in their state, fighting to link Republican Sen. Susan Collins to the embattled federal agency — and to shift the conversation away from the unrelated scandal that threatens to undermine their strength in a high-stakes U.S. Senate race.
https://t.co/4h4KM9obaJ

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

Possible plans to deploy ICE to polling stations this fall. #ICE

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats’ demand for the Trump administration’s possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall. https://t.co/yA1b2GPgJ2

[Claire Healy @clurhealy]

BREAKING - A 28-year-old man was killed by a truck while fleeing immigration agents in St. Augustine, Florida this morning, officials said.

It is the 3rd death involving ICE in a week, after agents shot a man in Maine yesterday.

w/@syraob

https://t.co/1PoW5toH8d

[Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker]

Like anyone who’s spent any time around politics, I have many Lindsey Graham stories. This is perhaps my favorite…

I was covering Congress (Best! Beat! Ever!) for the NYT when the Mother Emanuel shooting happened in Charleston. It was summer, but I was wearing pants and a sweater that day because it was always SO freezing in the Capitol. Anyhow, news of the shooting came down, and the DC Bureau chief called me with an order: Get yourself to Charleston ASAP and glue yourself to Graham’s side. She wanted a piece on the senator grappling with the unimaginable. So I headed straight to the airport, arriving in Charleston with just my backpack and what I’d be wearing to work that day, and linked up with Graham.

He had me meet him at a restaurant, where I told him I needed to shadow him for the next 48 hours. And he looked at me, with amused distaste, and said: “You are sticky. And you are icky. If you want to shadow me, go buy some nice new clothes—maybe a dress—and take a shower, and then we’ll talk.” (He was not wrong; I was sweaty and gross).

So I drove to a local big box store, bought a dress (he seemed to have a strong preference for a dress), and spent the next few days with him, resulting in this piece (which, for reasons not worth getting into, ended up being fairly different than the original assignment): https://t.co/HBHAgNRlEr

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Contrary to Marco Rubio’s insinuation, the International Criminal Court is not claiming jurisdiction over conduct in the United States. Rubio is dressing up his quest for impunity for American war crimes abroad under the label of national sovereignty, which ignores the sovereign right of other nations to invoke the ICC for crimes committed on their territory. https://t.co/fZKb8nxwAk

[lomikriel @lomikriel]

What we still don't know about the ICE shooting in Houston (although we asked)

This was not the first deadly shooting by immigration agents during this Trump admin. It is also not the latest: An ICE agent fatally shot a motorist Monday in Maine. 

https://t.co/L4sVg5FaFf

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Being an undocumented immigrant is not supposed to be a capital offense, but a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent's deadly shooting of a Maine motorist on Monday is at least the ninth death since the start of Trump’s mass deportation campaign. https://t.co/IPH0adt8EK

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

Breaking via @camiloreports #ICEarrests

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

CBS News: ICE has directed deportation officers to refrain from making vehicle stops in most cases, following two fatal shootings involving drivers killed by agents over the past week, sources tell @NicoleSganga and me.

The pause is an interim one for now.

@CBSNews.

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

Community organizing just forced the Trump administration to abandon its plan to detain tens of thousands of people in Amazon-style warehouses. New reporting from @truthout traces how residents in four states stopped it.

[Nick Miroff @NickMiroff]

“Our tactics and our training and our policies all have to be looked at," a senior ICE official told me after the killing last week of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo https://t.co/tWQ1sZzj6S

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

ICE officials acknowledge agents are not getting enough training on vehicle stops. ⬇️ #ICEarrests

[Nick Miroff @NickMiroff]

Another driver killed, this time in Maine. ICE "targeted enforcement" operations are more focused on arresting suspects in cars, yet ERO officers lack a vehicle pursuit policy with clear use of force guidelines. And ICE officials acknowledge they're not getting enough training.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Judge Kathleen Williams in her blistering takedown of Trump slush fund:

"Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to mail a copy of this Order to the State Bar of New York, of which Acting Atty General Blanche is a member AND to the DC Bar, of which Assoc. Atty General Woodward is a member"

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

This story shows what good-spirited people worked for the VOA. But it’s really about a huge waste of exceptional skill and talent. They should be behind microphones at this moment when fact-based reporting is urgently needed around the world. #VOA https://t.co/Zebz49S4Su

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

Houston Mayor pledges independent investigation, expresses the entire city’s condolences — and anger. #LorenzoSalgadoAraujo #ICE

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: The full bench of the 5th Circuit has quickly agreed to take up last week’s panel ruling finding a 90-day limit to detention without bond for people held under ICE’s new mandatory detention policy.

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

A reminder: If we had a well-functioning immigration system, Lorenzo Salgado would have had legal status, probably US citizenship years ago.
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers #ICE #LorenzoSalgadoAraujo https://t.co/6f8BEAqzzp

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

This column is asking a very good question: Where is the outrage about this killing? Demand a thorough independent investigation. Protect witnesses. ⁦⁦@latimes⁩ Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is a strike at the heart of Mexicans in the U.S. https://t.co/tlFEK6NP7w

[Adrian Carrasquillo @Carrasquillo]

What struck me & I won’t soon forget. A new haunting phrase in the vein of I can’t breathe.

“Me estan matando”

Among his last words, as heard from a witness who spoke to Washington Post. They reported he said “They’re killing me” in Spanish and I confirmed that’s what he said

[Julia Preston @JuliaPrestonNow]

“What about if it was your blue collar dad, with calloused hands?” @Carrasquillo with a moving reflection on the assault by ICE on fathers in the Latino community. Remember his name: #LorenzoSalgadoAraujo #ICE

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@Carrasquillo reflects on his recent story about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing by ICE and why this story is so important for working class, immigrant families.