Tina Vasquez
@TheTinaVasquez
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Features editor, @prismreports: [email protected]. Repped by @IwalaniKim. Board member, @PressOn_South.
Downey, CA/W-S, NC
Joined August 2013
NEW: In my latest investigation for @prismreports, I detail how women farm workers are systematically excluded from the H-2A agricultural visa program and those who do obtain these coveted visas often experience gender-based violence once in the U.S.
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A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking
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The Department of Homeland Security just announced it detained Mexican boxer, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
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I'm seeing multiple community reports from folks in SELA that ICE has been spotted in Whitter, Huntington Park, and a few other cities. I haven't been able to confirm yet, but be on the lookout, SELA!
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NEW: For @prismreports, I wrote about my beloved Los Angeles, an American city unlike any other, where there is an unspoken understanding that our place and our people must be defended at all costs.
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ICE sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, and that message was responded to in kind by the people of Los Angeles
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I’m here in Paramount where the community is facing the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
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So proud that @TheAssemblyNC’s Food Section won a National Magazine Award today for the newsletter category & feeling extra proud that my reporting on quinceañera food in NC was included. It’s a lovely night for NC. Congratulations to all the winners!
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TX's dangerous abortion ban leads to the severe criminalization of Latinas. Lizelle Gonzalez was charged in 2022 with murder for an alleged self-managed abortion & now midwife Maria Margarita Rojas was arrested for allegedly providing abortion care: https://t.co/gBcSQZHKHC.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area.
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Journalists are daily witnesses to grief & human suffering, but newsroom mental health support is still lacking. In 2020, Laura Gómez Rodríguez faced PTSD, but instead of help, she got a performance plan. @TheTinaVasquez
https://t.co/fzbFW40Wq0
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I know there’s much to read these days. Please read this story @palabranahj by the great @TheTinaVasquez, this is the time to come together and forge new paths to support our journalists of color.
Journalists are daily witnesses to grief & human suffering, but newsroom mental health support is still lacking. In 2020, Laura Gómez Rodríguez faced PTSD, but instead of help, she got a performance plan. @TheTinaVasquez
https://t.co/fzbFW40Wq0
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NEW: On Saturday, I attended @RaiseUptheSouth's worker power summit for low-wage service workers from across the South. For a few short hours, it felt like the most hopeful place in the country. You can check out my dispatch here:
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Low-wage workers at the Union of Southern Service Workers’ summit are ready to go up against their employers, racist labor laws, and Trump
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Crossing the border without authorization is a misdemeanor; if apprehended in the act you can be charged with a crime. Being in the U.S. without authorization is *not* a crime, it’s a civil matter. I wish all reporters knew this!
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DC reporters saying Medicaid is down nationwide due to Trump executive order. I've reached out to NCDHHS and some of NC's biggest hospitals seeking confirmation this is happening here. Approximately 1/3 of all NC residents are on Medicaid, including over half a million children.
One person I talked to -- not a lawmaker -- says this is real and a potential crisis unless fixed. Medicaid providers will not be able to get paid, payrolls will be missed. Red states, ironically, will be hit hardest as they get bigger % of Medicaid funds.
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When the state of the world is overwhelming, the only thing that makes me feel useful is reporting. So, I'm happy to announce I'm a recipient of a 2025 Alicia Patterson Fellowship, which will allow me to further investigate the H-2A program:
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Eight compelling projects will be undertaken in the coming year by tenaccomplished journalists, who are the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson grant. Their topicsrange from abuses of migrants...
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Dubbed the Sunset fire, LAFD says mandatory evacuation order is now in place for Laurel Canyon Blvd (on the west) to Mulholland Dr (on the north) to 101 Freeway (on the east) down to Hollywood Blvd (on the south). Fire is 10 acres as of now.
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HOLLYWOOD NEEDS TO EVACUATE NOW! TELL YOUR FRIENDS. ITS NOT CLEAR HOW QUICKLY AND HOW FAR THIS FIRE WILL SPREAD. DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO COMING INTO THE CITY.
IMMEDIATE EVACUATION ORDER NEAR RUNYON CANYON:🚨🚨🚨 101 FREEWAY TO MULHOLLAND BLVD TO LAUREL CANYON TO HOLLYWOOD BLVD - EVACUATE NOW! SHARE THIS!
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#BREAKING: NEW FIRE IN HOLLYWOOD A new fire broke out in Hollywood near Runyon canyon. It has exploded in size over the past ten minutes. This is really dangerous. Some of you may need to evacuate.
#BREAKING: EATON CANYON RUNNING OUT OF WATER Firefighter tells CBS that they are running out of water and have very little resources to fight the fire. This is bad.
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If anyone in the Los Angeles fires needs horse hauling contact the Compton Cowboys on Instagram they’re offering their services 🐎
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If you are in Santa Monica: North of San Vicente: Evacuation order -- LEAVE NOW North of Montana to San Vicente: Evacuation warning, those who'll require additional time to evac should leave now https://t.co/NuyfMujNho
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JUST IN: Gov. @GavinNewsom proclaims state of emergency due to the Palisades Fire. Full state of emergency proclamation from @CAgovernor is below:
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