Michelle Hackman
@MHackman
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Covering immigration for the @WSJ. Please Get in touch: [email protected] or DM for signal. Same handle where the skies are blue
Washington, DC
Joined August 2008
Hello! 👋🏼 I'm a reporter for the @WSJ covering immigration. If you work in/with the government and have something to share with a reporter, you can reach me securely on signal at mhackman.59. I take the safety of sources extremely seriously. No one needs to know we talked.
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RT @Olivia_Beavers: NEW w/ @MHackman: A small but growing group of House Republican lawmakers is encouraging the Trump administration and o….
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RT @alexbward: U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants. W/ @RobbieGramer & @tparti
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Five countries whose leaders held talks with Trump at the White House were sent a U.S. proposal to accept deportees, document shows.
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RT @KathleenBushJo2: "Department of Labor Creates “Office of Immigration Policy” to Streamline Work Visas. The new office will streamline t….
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RT @RichardRubinDC: New from @WSJ: The updated reconciliation bill takes a big swipe at wind, solar and EVs.
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Elon Musk calls the Senate’s latest version of the spending bill ‘utterly insane and destructive.’
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RT @kyledcheney: FOLKS: It's very possible that nothing has changed re: nationwide injunction on birthright citizenship. While the court br….
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RT @BostonGlobe: A Harvard Medical School scientist from Russia who was detained in February for bringing frog embryos into the country for….
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Kseniia Petrova was detained at Logan International Airport on Feb. 16 for failing to declare frog embryos that she was carrying in her luggage.
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RT @StefWKight: 👀GOP debate brewing over Trump's deportation push . Valadao: "prioritize the removal of known criminals over the hardworkin….
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RT @efindell: Masked arrests. Smashed windows. Greater shows of force. Indiscriminate detentions. How the White House marching orders to "….
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After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
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RT @rebeccaballhaus: Several U.S. government agencies in 2022 and 2023 tracked foreign nationals coming and going to Elon Musk’s properties….
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RT @jdawsey1: Some really incredible reporting in here:
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After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
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RT @VeraMBergen: Steve Bannon on Elon Musk: “They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the stro….
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RT @lomikriel: TX spearheaded allowing undocumented students instate college tuition under @GovernorPerry. A conservative lege AGAIN didn't….
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Within hours of a federal lawsuit targeting Texas’ policy of letting undocumented students qualify for lower public tuition rates, the 24-year-old law was no more.
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RT @jdawsey1: “Yesterday, as everybody knows, [was the] first day of hurricane season,” Richardson, the new leader of FEMA, said. “I didn’t….
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The agency’s leader suggested he recently learned there was an annual hurricane season.
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This also includes au pairs, potentially depriving families of childcare.
This isn’t just a suspension of new student visa interviews, it’s also all new interviews for exchange visitors. Many exchange visitors work at summer camps and other similar programs. This could have an immediate impact on many American businesses as well, not just higher ed.
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RT @JenniferJJacobs: Scoop: Security for border czar Tom Homan costs more than $500,000 a month, multiple sources told CBS. Another source….
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RT @jdawsey1: Inside Trump Officials’ Debate Over Abrego Garcia’s Deportation - The New York Times. This is a terrific story. https://t.co….
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A Maryland man’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.
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RT @ellengilmer: Kristi Noem tells Sen. Blumenthal "there are no plans whatsoever to do a reality show" for immigrants to compete for citiz….
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RT @rebeccaballhaus: The Department of Homeland Security is considering being part of a television show in which immigrants would compete f….
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“This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” says the producer behind the pitch.
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RT @SilviaElenaFF: This Afrikaner has drawn criticism for anti-Semitic comments online - while being resettled by a Jewish-affiliated group….
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Charl Kleinhaus, who is being resettled in Buffalo as a refugee, said his social media posts were being taken out of context and smeared as antisemitic.
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