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Wendy Fry

@wendyfry.bsky.social

I’m a journalist specializing in the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration and U.S.-MX foreign relations. I speak English and Spanish. Available for freelance work. Contact: wendyreports@gmail.com. Signal: WendyFry.10.

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He spent 7 weeks in ICE detention. Why his case shows new legal obstacles for immigrants An immigration judge granted Idris Demirtas' release from detention, but that wasn't enough to reunite him with his wife in San Diego.

“My body didn’t want to go to sleep last night because I’m afraid I’ll dream I’m back there in jail,” Demirtas said about his first night home.

calmatters.org/justice/2026...

08.01.2026 23:29 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Just your periodic reminder from a journo that when you’re in ICE detention and/or CDCR and they say they might be recording your calls, THEY ARE RECORDING YOUR CALLS

29.12.2025 16:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ok so they’re really really really gonna start enforcing the Real ID, y’all. Feb 1. If you have a passport card though or passport book, you’re OK via @TravelGov

29.12.2025 12:57 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll check it out. I mostly have to do what I’m assigned but I’ll read up on it and can maybe see if SPJ has any awareness on it too. Thank you.

27.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me explaining to my future husband how it’s not true that you can’t just leave church spaghetti sitting out on the stove all night. If that were true, all of Texas would already be dead, luv. 😘✌🏽

27.12.2025 02:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How it started vs How it ended. Yo. Join SPJ today. Together maybe we can make a difference. (And you get a huge discount on contest entries!)

27.12.2025 00:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“There,” the great legal mind thought as he added his footnote. “That should put an end to the ‘Kavanaugh Stops’ thing.”

23.12.2025 23:10 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
propublica on Instagram: "Sofi thought she was being offered the American dream with an H-2A farmworker visa. She left her toddler in Mexico and wound up in …" Sofi thought she was being offered the American dream with an H-2A farmworker visa. She left her toddler in Mexico and wound up in a nightmare that authorities say almost got her killed.Over the years, the promises of an H-2A visa — such as humane working conditions, free housing and far better wages than back home — have sometimes been undermined by the relative ease of exploiting workers due to scant oversight of the program.Listen to ProPublica’s Max Blau talk about Sofi’s harrowing experience and why it’s vital for the public to better understand the perils H-2A workers face when picking the produce that lines our grocery store aisles.🎨: Dadu Shin for ProPublica

Don’t miss this. H2A worker visas will only go up. www.instagram.com/reel/DSoIj4T...

24.12.2025 02:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I’m just gonna note here that my mom still does not think it’s funny that I hid a whole human being (my bestie) in our own house for several weeks completely undetected like the wanna be CIA agent that I am. That’s how little our parents paid attention in the 90’s.

24.12.2025 01:52 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

🔥🔥🔥🔥

23.12.2025 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

23.12.2025 01:51 — 👍 24600    🔁 5256    💬 285    📌 119

Immigration rights activist Jeannette Vizguerra-Ramirez was released yesterday from a for-profit GEO Immigration Detention Center in Denver. A federal immigration judge ordered her release on bond after finding that the Department of Homeland Security failed to justify her continued detention.

23.12.2025 13:26 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Baja authorities are searching for this 15-year-old last seen in Colonias de California in Tijuana. Please share.

22.12.2025 13:00 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

CA Attorney General Rob Bonta finds unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the newly opened California City ICE detention center run by CoreCivic. CoreCivic has said they're following all fed regs. DOJ staff finds some detainees have to spend 23-24 hours a day in their housing unit.

19.12.2025 21:24 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Look I did it! I can't BELIEVE that actually worked and I could follow all of @adamisacson.com steps. But it did, and it took me a little longer, but I could follow all the steps! 🙌That's so cool thank you so much!

17.12.2025 18:50 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me too! I wanna try - I want to see what nationalities are being sent to MX as 3rd country and try to see if MX Gov will confirm the 7,000+ Wonder where they all are in MX. Haven’t seen a lot of new arrivals in TJ. My laptop just suddenly died yesterday 😆 It’s done for the year, I guess.

09.12.2025 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow.

09.12.2025 02:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

!!!!! What

09.12.2025 02:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'We may be deporting the wrong people': New poll shows doubts about immigration crackdown A new poll shared exclusively with CalMatters adds to a slate of recent surveys suggesting Californians’ support is waning for Trump’s harshest immigration enforcement policies.

“The corrections department also provides ICE with information that helps the agency locate, arrest, and deport people who are not directly transferred. CalMatters obtained and reviewed more than 27,000 pages of emails between state prison employees and ICE.“

calmatters.org/justice/2025...

05.12.2025 18:12 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

My friend on Marco Polo: “I started watching this show on Netflix about this at-risk youth from a bad neighborhood whose parent dies and then he’s sent to live with his aunt and uncle who are rich.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Was he chillin out maxin, relaxin all cool, playing some b-ball outside of school? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

05.12.2025 15:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond the Border | Kate Morrissey | Substack Beyond the Border brings you human stories about the U.S. immigration system. Click to read Beyond the Border, by Kate Morrissey, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Today my Beyond the Border subscription renewed and I have to say it was worth every penny last year so I highly recommend you subscribing as well beyondthebordernews.substack.com

04.12.2025 15:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

NEW: @governor.ca.gov & @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov announced an online portal for the public to share information with the CA DOJ regarding potentially unlawful activity by federal agents & officers across the state

Fed agents have broad authority to enforce federal laws, but they must do so lawfully

03.12.2025 21:05 — 👍 156    🔁 72    💬 8    📌 4

An immigration judge denied Idris bond this morning during a bond hearing in San Diego fed immigration court.

02.12.2025 18:44 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Oh man. Me and Cubby. This is a memory worth keeping. I channeled my old Politically Speaking poetry scripts for our @LatinoUSA podcast writing several weeks ago.

02.12.2025 03:54 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same same. I didn’t touch the cherry tho. 🥧🤤

02.12.2025 02:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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'They still need care': California farmworkers avoid medical clinics over immigration fears Fearful of sharing sensitive information, California farmworkers started staying away from mobile medical clinics after President Trump took office. “There’s a lot of distrust,” said a doctor who work...

Fearful of sharing sensitive information, California farmworkers started staying away from mobile medical clinics after President Trump took office. “There’s a lot of distrust,” said a doctor in Fresno County. calmatters.org/economy/2025... via Larry Valenzuela @calmatters

01.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Letter from Reps. Jacobs, Vargas and Levin about ICE’s new policy detaining foreign-born spouses of U.S. citizens at their USCIS green-card appointments:

01.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Yo. SD Media. The holiday party at same place as last year. HMU for details. (Or even better, join the newsletter mailing list!) 6pm Dec 10. Be there. Be merry. Be bright. 🎄🎁🎉🎁🎄🎅

27.11.2025 04:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Idris Demirtas, a San Diego pedicab driver who fled Turkey after being tortured because of his religious beliefs, and his wife Mae Bovenzi, a U.S. citizen. Demirtas was arrested last week at an immigration call-in appointment. He’s the latest among hundreds of people who have been arrested across California at routine immigration check-ins. Photo courtesy of Mae Bovenzi

Idris Demirtas, a San Diego pedicab driver who fled Turkey after being tortured because of his religious beliefs, and his wife Mae Bovenzi, a U.S. citizen. Demirtas was arrested last week at an immigration call-in appointment. He’s the latest among hundreds of people who have been arrested across California at routine immigration check-ins. Photo courtesy of Mae Bovenzi

A San Diego pedicab driver who fled Turkey after being tortured because of his religious beliefs is the latest among hundreds of people who have been arrested across CA at routine immigration check-ins, according to advocates, his attorneys, and his wife. bit.ly/4iHev97

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26.11.2025 20:19 — 👍 34    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 0
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He fled religious persecution in Turkey. Then he got a one-day notice for an ICE check-in 'He’s never told me everything about what exactly happened, but he has scars all over his body,' said Mae Bovenzi, whose husband now fears deportation to Turkey after a routine ICE check-in.

He fled religious persecution in Turkey. Then he got a one-day notice for an ICE check-in. Now he’s being detained at Otay.

When he was held overnight in the basement of the San Diego federal courthouse, he told his wife he could hear babies crying through the night.

calmatters.org/justice/2025...

26.11.2025 15:53 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

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