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Her Huffington Post Highline series, "The 21st Century Gold Rush" won awards from the National Association of Magazine Editors, Overseas Press Club, and American Society of Newspaper Editors. She's also won multiple awards for feature writing in India and the United States.
Her reporting has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Institute For Current World Affairs, and the Global Migration Grant.
Degrees include a BA from Hampshire College and MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where was a Stabile Fellow at the Center for Investigative Journalism.
Is Resisting Deportation Possible Under Trump?
The US-Mexico border state of Arizona has long been at the forefront of the immigration debate: in this New York Times Magazine article, journalist Marcela Valdez explores how that dynamic has changed since Trump's policies – including his promise to “build a wall” and his controversial executive order banning immigration from certain countries – have begun affecting the state, and what immigrant activists are doing to keep people from being deported.
Perhaps the biggest shift has been Trump’s reversal of Obama’s directive that Immigration Customs & Enforcement (ICE) officials go after “criminal immigrants” before deporting “normal” families. What that means in practice, is that any undocumented immigrant in the US is fair game for deportation. However, Valdez shows how immigrant activists may be able to turn this to their advantage.
“Obama deported nearly three million immigrants, more than any president in American history. For Puente, one of the stranger outcomes of Trump’s election is that, for the first time, they stand a chance of dismantling some police-ICE collaborations. Fighting individual deportation cases has become harder, but policy battles have gained traction in Phoenix, where Democrats still hold significant power. 'Now it’s convenient for Democrats to shame a deportation,' Garcia told me.”
But while activists might have more support from Democrats, many of the strategies that worked under Obama are losing traction under Trump's wave of deportations - forcing activists to adopt new measures and strategies.
