The scammers profiting off Trump's immigration crackdown Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations.

In her latest investigation, @lauracmorel.bsky.social dives into the world of scams that are profiting off of Trump's immigration crackdown.

Read it at the link below. ⬇️

Today’s scams are more sophisticated and harder to detect thanks to the proliferation of AI and social media.

Some scammers are even impersonating judges and attorneys on fake Zoom calls with unsuspecting victims. See these screenshots from a case out of New York.

The scammers profiting off Trump's immigration crackdown Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations.

My latest for @motherjones.com : Scammers are targeting immigrants at an alarming rate, according to legal orgs I spoke to this month.

“Criminals have identified this as an opportunity."

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“I Wish I Could Send More": How Exiled Cubans Are Keeping the Island Alive Cuba is facing its worst economic crisis ever. The packages keep coming anyway.

"For my whole life, I have witnessed how my family here has tried to help our relatives in Cuba. It’s the same ordeal for millions of others who left the island knowing it would fracture their families forever."

My latest for @motherjones.com :

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SCOOP: In a January letter to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), DHS says 270 DACA recipients have been arrested from January to September 2025. In addition, 174 DACA applicants have been deported, according to ICE records.

Those numbers differ from what was shared with Sen. Dick Durbin in February.

I'm back from parental leave. My latest for @motherjones.com published today:

This $50 billion band-aid won’t save rural health care It is just a fraction of the money these facilities will lose thanks to massive Medicaid cuts.

When the nearest major hospital is 80+ miles away, rural hospitals (with as few as 2 ER beds) play a critical role in stabilizing trauma patients. The OBBA's $50B rural health fund won't nearly make up for the losses hospitals like these face from Medicaid cuts.
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“The mosquitoes are getting worse”: Life inside Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention camp “This facility is not one that is sustainable.”

“The mosquitoes are getting worse”: Life inside Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention camp

The costs of restricting abortion? More than $130 billion per year. A new report quantifies the costs of rising abortion restrictions three years after Dobbs.

ICYMI: The 16 states w/ total or 6-week abortion bans have sustained >$64 billion in economic losses annually since the Dobbs decision 3 years ago today.

Coupled w/ other abortion restrictions, the national cost balloons to to $133 billion, a new analysis estimates.

Exclusive for @motherjones.com:

Florida is leading Trump’s immigration crackdown Across Florida, hundreds of local law enforcement agencies have stepped in to help ICE.

Florida is leading Trump's immigration crackdown, writes @lauracmorel.bsky.social: Roughly half of the law enforcement agencies that have enrolled this year in ICE's 287(g) program—which deputizes local police and jails with immigration enforcement powers—are from the Sunshine State bit.ly/4lEkXyF

Lawmakers are trying to hold crisis pregnancy centers to account Post-Dobbs the GOP has given them millions in taxpayer dollars.

For @motherjones.com:

From Florida to Hawaii, lawmakers are pushing back against taxpayer funded pregnancy centers. With the GOP's support, the centers have received millions post Dobbs.

“That is an inappropriate use of taxpayer money," one state Rep. told me.

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I’d say hundreds of people at this point.

I’m covering protests in downtown Saint Petersburg, Fla., where dozens of people are lining the streets with protest signs. @motherjones.com

GOOD DAY AMERICA!

Today, #HandsOff protests against the Trump administration are happening across the country and our journalists are spread far and wide to cover it all. 🫡

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Mass HHS firings gutted "vital" office for reproductive health Trump is dismantling the little-known Division of Reproductive Health. It was critical in helping pregnant people and pushing for better systems for IVF.

NEW @motherjones.com: HHS gut nearly all of the Division of Reproductive Health this week—which could've helped enact Trump's promises to expand IVF & support healthy pregnancies

Spoke to 7 former staffers to report the most complete story thus far on their work:
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