@jazmineulloa.bsky.social
I am a national reporter for The New York Times, covering the border and immigration. My book, “El Paso: Five families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,” from Dutton, is out now.
And thank you again to Robert Moore, El Paso Matters and El Paso Community Foundation for such a thoughtful conversation and a beautiful night. elpasomatters.org/2026/03/10/p...
Thank you for the love. Thank you Jack Loveridge for coordinating the visits to our old schools, Burges and St. Pius. Shoutout to Pat Monroe, our journalism teacher in whose class it all started.
El Paso, I’ll be back.
So many paisas came out to our event at the theater inside the old Plaza Theatre that we hit capacity and had to turn at least 30 people away. Some showed up at our smaller, private Burges High event the next day, and we let them in.
It was so special to celebrate with family, to honor the place where I’m from, and to see so many people I know and love and grew up with sharing and connecting with the book in ways I could have never imagined. It was a reminder of exactly why I wrote it.
Those words about El Paso’s love for its own ran deep this week.
“El Paso es una ciudad que tiene mucho amor para su gente.”
It’s a line from the book—words I caught in the air at the makeshift memorial that rose on a hilltop within hours after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart, falsely railing against what he called the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
Hello Dallas! Join me and Maria Pacheco Ramos at @interabangbooks.bsky.social
TODAY to discuss El Paso and it what this city had to teach us about our nation’s border and immigration battles today. See you at 6 pm at 5600 W Lovers Ln, Ste 142. interabangbooks.com/event/2026-0...
Thank you, Bob Moore, El Paso Matters and El Paso Community Foundation for such a great conversation and event. Truly a night to remember. Here’s to moving El Paso from the margins to the center of our American story, where it belongs. elpasomatters.org/2026/03/10/p...
“As El Paso became a backdrop to our nation’s immigration battles, I began to believe it held the key to understanding American identity. If only we can give the city the place it’s due at the center — not the margins — of our story.”
@jazmineulloa.bsky.social
thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/05/f...
As promised! Season 4, Episode 1, of Writing Latinos from
@publicbooks.bsky.social! I'm thrilled to kick things off with
@jazmineulloa.bsky.social discussing her new book: El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory.
www.publicbooks.org/jazmine-ullo...
New at PB: In the season 4 premiere of our podcast Writing Latinos, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks with author and NY Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa (@jazmineulloa.bsky.social) about her new book "El Paso" (Dutton).
We so appreciated @jazmineulloa.bsky.social Ulloa taking the time to talk to us about her book El Paso this past week.
Upcoming lineup:
3/10: @grantginder.bsky.social
3/17: Christopher Castellani
3/24: Amy Jo Burns
FMC 3/13: Anthony DePalma
Subscribe and tune in: apple.co/3XMnpcc
It's here!
"El Paso" from @jazmineulloa.bsky.social
I cant wait to get started.
It’s here! Join me, Jia Lynn Yang + @haleaziz.bsky.social at Politics and Prose TODAY to discuss El Paso and it what this city had to teach us about our nation’s border and immigration battles today. See you at 7 pm at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW. politics-prose.com/jazmine-ullo...
So incredibly proud of my dear friend @jazmineulloa.bsky.social's ambitious and beautifully woven new book that traces the complex and rich history of El Paso through the lives of five families, elevating the border city to its "rightful position" at the center of our American story. An excerpt here
El Paso — the book and the place — front and center. Went on CNN’s “Inside Politics” with Dana Bash the other day to break down Texas primary results and got a nice mention of the release. ¡Que viva El Paso y que viva la frontera!
New in books from @jazmineulloa.bsky.social: On August 3, 2019, I was nearly 2,000 miles away in Washington, D.C., where I worked as a national political reporter in the bureau of The Boston Globe. It was a Saturday, and I was in a movie theater when my phone lit up with calls and messages.
Kristi Noem — the first cabinet member to be ousted in Trump’s second term — had been among the key figures in the admin fulfilling his mass deportation effort, which he campaigned on aggressively and which was influenced by Stephen Miller, a top WH adviser. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
I can’t stop thinking about Gustavo’s truck.
He was pulled over on a road in Minneapolis, shackled by federal agents, and almost shipped more than 1,300 miles away — to El Paso.
My hometown now echoes in every city seeing harsher immigration enforcement.
Camp East Montana, which is at the military base Fort Bliss in El Paso, has been mired in controversy since it opened in August. Three people have died while in custody. Now it could be closing, from @poojasalhotra.bsky.social + Madeleine Ngo. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
Beautiful story I’ve been meaning to share. Orlando Mayorquín closely follows one California family’s decision to self-deport. It shows what can happen when you stay with a story until you know it inside and out — and can capture the full weight of it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“The foundations for all these actions — the policies, the rhetoric, the treatment of migrants — were laid down long before, brick by brick, decade by decade in my hometown of El Paso,” writes @jazmineulloa.bsky.social for @thebarbedwire.com
thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/05/f...
Immigration reporters like @jazmineulloa.bsky.social have been on the frontlines of the harshest deportation campaign this country has seen since World War II. The foundations for it were laid down long before in her hometown of El Paso.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/05/f...
"I knew I needed to place El Paso at the center of American history. A place where we never held it before." @jazmineulloa.bsky.social
This book is about power and myth and the stories we tell about the border — and the ones we don’t. El Paso is out today from Dutton. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711804...
A night for the books. Standing room only at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. We sold out of El Paso. Grateful to Greenlight for hosting me. Grateful to @astead-mirror.bluesky.bot for the thoughtful conversation. Grateful to everyone who came out, who waited in line, who stayed late to talk and toast.
"Hey, Grandma, can you drive me over the border so I can write about these women disappearing?"
As a high school student!
Ulloa wrote the hell out of this book and it should be at the top of your book pile by the end of the day. Sooner!
Gracias!!
🥹♥️ love the throwback to the Velcro wall decked with notes and drafts and timelines