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reporter covering immigration. Formerly and . Andrea[dot]Castillo[at]. Hablo español.

Los Angeles, CA
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Joined May 2012
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    Jan 2

    NEW the shutdown has knocked E-Verify offline. Immigration courts are cancelling hearing, making huge backlog worse. US border agents are working but not getting paid. For a strained US immigration system, political impasse brings more dysfunction

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    Jan 2

    Important story about our lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from denying humanitarian protections to some vulnerable immigrant children in CA! “I think this is part of the administration’s attack on immigrants,” said attorney Sara Van Hofwegen of ...

    Young immigrants in California who suffered abuse sue over changes to special protection program
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  3. Jan 2

    Young immigrants in California who suffered abuse sue over changes to special protection program

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  4. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2018

    there is a remarkable story of heroism underneath the horrific Thousand Oaks mass shooting: most of the people who died did so while trying to save others. my story with on the Borderline Bar massacre that killed 12:

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    31 Dec 2018

    Schools are prohibited by privacy laws from sharing anything beyond the most basic info about students. With Operation Matador, ICE found a way around these protections, by relying on police officers posted inside schools, known as school resource officers

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    25 Dec 2018

    An 8-year-old Guatemalan child died in U.S. custody on Christmas morning, the second such death in 3 weeks

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  7. 22 Dec 2018

    ICYM this series by : In Roma, Texas, residents must choose: Help Border Patrol, or border crossers?

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  8. 21 Dec 2018

    Though most available jobs are low-paying, many migrants are settling in for a long stay in Mexico as they realize that their chances of legally entering the U.S. are slim.

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  9. 21 Dec 2018

    Most people who stayed said the new shelter, on the outskirts of the city, is too far away from jobs.

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  10. 21 Dec 2018

    This is Alberto Osorio and his mom Gregoria Cornejo from El Salvador. Before the tent city outside of the shuttered Benito Juarez shelter was vacated Thursday by Tijuana Police, they made money selling breakfasts while waiting for their turn to seek asylum in the U.S.

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  11. 21 Dec 2018

    My latest: Migrant caravan in Tijuana hunkers down for the long haul

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    20 Dec 2018

    🚨DHS just rolled out the biggest move in Trump's ongoing asylum crackdown—arguably the single biggest immigration move he's made period. Asylum-seekers will be forced to wait in Mexico during the months or years it takes to process their claims in the US.

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    19 Dec 2018

    NEW: Shaima Swileh, the Yemeni mother who was separated from her dying child under the , has been reunited with the boy in Oakland. My story:

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    19 Dec 2018

    A 5-month-old girl has been hospitalized with pneumonia after being detained by Border Patrol for days in holding cells that migrants call hieleras or iceboxes.

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    18 Dec 2018

    I have well-meaning colleagues who may hesitate to use ‘racism’ in stories when that’s what they actually mean. This is a disservice to our industry and well-meaning consumers of news. My ⁦⁩ prediction: We’ll make it more plain.

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    14 Dec 2018

    Hundreds of millions of dollars of US aid has flowed to Honduras based on a simple hope: If the streets were safer, fewer people would migrate north. Yet even as homicides have fallen dramatically, people have continued leaving in droves.

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  17. 13 Dec 2018

    Customs And Border Protection Paid A Firm $13.6 Million To Hire Recruits. It Hired 2 : NPR

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    12 Dec 2018

    Had such an unexpected interaction with a CBP officer yesterday in Tijuana: we went to a spot near Playas where many people are able to sneak under the fence and hand themselves in to CBP. Partner in crime and I were there to film

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    12 Dec 2018

    NPR: Former editor Davan Maharaj secretly recorded tronc owner Michael Ferro complaining of a "Jewish cabal," was later paid a $2.5 million settlement after being fired.

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    12 Dec 2018

    I tweet a lot of links about newsrooms/diversity but this one I am really hoping you read. the question of "Who exactly do we mean when we say we" is so important. I'd also add, who do we mean when we say "everyone," or "Angelenos," or "Californians" or "the mainstream"

    I wrote a prediction (hope? plea?) for journalism in 2019
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