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lomikriel
@lomikriel
Investigative reporter @texastribune. Prior @propublica @houstonchron @reuters etc. Polk Award winner, Pulitzer finalist. 🇿🇦 grown. [email protected]
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    lomikriel
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    Oct 13, 2019
    The son of the Texas sheriff who last week railed against undocumented immigrants from a White House podium, saying many are “ drunks (who) will run over your children, and they will run over my children,” has been arrested for public intoxication and indecent exposure.
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    Marie D. De Jesús 🇵🇷
    @MarieDennise
    Oct 13, 2019
    Tarrant County sheriff’s son arrested on indecent exposure dallasnews.com/news/2019/10/1…
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Aug 23, 2018
    OK. As an Afrikaner South African: This issue is blown up by the alt-right and dark-web that after Charlottesville and Dylann Roof gained some sort of false legitimacy: “This was the province of Stormfront five, 10 years ago, white genocide in SA.” tinyurl.com/ydyuwzru (1)
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    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
    Aug 23, 2018
    I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.” @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews
    Peter Dutton’s offer to white South African farmers started on the far right | Jason Wilson
    From theguardian.com
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Nov 26, 2018
    This is false. @realDonaldTrump had a blanket policy to separate parents & kids at the border, incl. kids as young as 18 months and some who were still breastfeeding. It started in El Paso, as I first reported a year ago, 6 months before national outlets.
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    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
    Nov 26, 2018
    .@60Minutes did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration. In fact a picture of children in jails was used by other Fake Media to show how bad (cruel) we are, but it was in 2014 during O years. Obama separated....
    houstonchronicle.com
    Trump moves to end 'catch and release', prosecuting parents and removing children who cross border
    Patricia Mejia gathered her three young children and made the arduous journey through Mexico to the U.S. border to escape El Salvador's often deadly violence. When Border Patrol agents found the...
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    lomikriel
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    May 24, 2018
    Border Patrol agents arrested Esteban Pastor and prosecuted him for coming back into the country illegally. They took away his 18-month-old son, telling him he was 'somewhere in Texas.' Three months later, the father was deported. Alone. tinyurl.com/ybr3eu68 via @HoustonChron
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Sep 15, 2020
    .@DHSOIG asked ICE not to deport a key witness to sexual assault. Lawyers say she was threatened & requested her release. OIG reversed course. Now she's gone. "How can we take this investigation seriously?" (Correct IG tagged -story always had it right!)
    ICE Deported a Woman Who Accused Guards of Sexual Assault While the Feds Were Still Investigating...
    From propublica.org
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Sep 15, 2020
    She is a crucial witness into sexual assault in ICE detention. @OIGatHHS asked ICE not to deport her. Lawyers requested her release, saying she was threatened. OIG reversed course. Now she's gone. "How can we possibly take this investigation seriously?"
    ICE Deported a Woman Who Accused Guards of Sexual Assault While the Feds Were Still Investigating...
    From propublica.org
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Nov 1, 2022
    NEW: We obtained the 911 calls & police radio traffic during the #Uvalde school shooting, which police for 5 months refused to disclose. What they reveal is some officers knew students were likely in danger, yet did not immediately act (1/10)
    Newly Obtained Uvalde 911 Calls Shed More Light on Botched Police Response
    From propublica.org
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Apr 7, 2020
    Still floored by this: “Families of residents were not notified before the drugs were administered, but nursing home operators were in the process of notifying them Monday, Armstrong said.”
    COVID-19 outbreak at Texas City nursing home
    Texas City COVID-19 patients receive hydroxychloroquine
    From galvnews.com
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Nov 23, 2018
    A record +14K immigrant children spent Thanksiving in federal shelters, incl. +5.6K in TX. Not because more are coming, but the govnt is detaining them for twice as long as average, 75 days as of Aug. In part, their family is afraid to get them b/c of ICE
    Longer stays leave record number of immigrant children in detention
    From houstonchronicle.com
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Aug 4, 2020
    For months, lawyers searched for thousands of migrant kids expelled under a US order against COVID. They found three dozen. Kids vanish into a secretive system, not issued a main tracking number for migrants. They’re quickly returned-'no one can find them'
    propublica.org
    Her Rapist Threatened to Make Her “Disappear.” Instead of Asylum, ICE Put Her in a Hotel and Sent...
    Thousands of migrant children — including babies — have been expelled by the Trump administration since March. Some have been held in hotels without access to lawyers or family. Advocates say many...
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Mar 5, 2021
    A Houston Mexican restaurant kept requiring masks despite @GregAbbott_TX lifting the statewide requirement. Within hours, they received messages on social media & emails threatening to call ICE & saying their green cards should be checked houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/arti… by @EmmaBalter
    Houston Mexican restaurant got 'horrific' threats after sticking with masks
    From houstonchronicle.com
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Sep 30, 2022
    One of the twin brothers accused in the fatal shooting of one migrant and injuring another, had, until this week, overseen a West TX ICE detention facility, where complaints at one point were so serious prosecutors involved the FBI theintercept.com/2022/09/29/ice… @rdevro
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Jan 19, 2021
    One of the many experiences I will specifically remember from @katierosemiller is when she told me the US was not separating kids under 5 and I then came to her with this story of an 18 month old separated during the pilot the US denied :
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    Katie Miller
    @KatieMiller
    Jan 19, 2021
    Forever thankful for the Trump-Pence administration, because of the last four years, we became a family of three.
    Immigrant families separated at border struggle to find each other
    From houstonchronicle.com
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    lomikriel
    @lomikriel
    Aug 14, 2020
    ICE guards in an El Paso detention center sexually assaulted & harassed migrants in 'pattern' of abuse, lawyers say. They 'forcibly' kissed & touched one in areas not visible to cameras, saying 'no one would believe her.' They offered another $ for sex.
    ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say
    From propublica.org