Author Archive

Dara Lind

Reporter, ProPublica

Dara Lind covers immigration policy for ProPublica in Washington, DC. Before coming to ProPublica, she spent five years as Vox's immigration reporter; she remains a regular cohost of the Vox podcast "The Weeds." She's been covering immigration in some form since the end of the George W. Bush administration.
Threats

Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border

Newly disclosed records show that conspiracy theories were used to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit.

  • Dara Lind, ProPublica
Policy

ICE Is Making Sure Migrant Kids Don’t Have COVID-19 — Then Expelling Them to 'Prevent Its Spread'

The administration has used infection risk to justify expelling thousands of children without legal protections. But it’s only expelling kids who’ve tested negative.

  • Dara Lind and Lomi Kriel, ProPublica