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Author Archives: Susan Ferriss

Susan Ferriss joined CPI in 2011 and directs its immigration project. As a Cox Newspapers Latin America correspondent, Susan won Overseas Press Club and Inter-American Press Association honors for reports on failed promises of Mexican economic reforms. She also covered immigration at the Sacramento Bee, co-wrote The Fight in the Fields, about Cesar Chavez, and produced The Golden Cage, a film about farmworkers. Susan’s CPI “Criminalizing Kids” reports changed school policies and won honors from Columbia University, the Online Journalism Association and the Radio Television Digital News Association. Her reporting on immigrants at Idaho dairies won a regional Edward R. Murrow prize. A Stanford Knight fellow, Susan has a BA in Latin American Studies and an MA in Journalism from the University of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley. "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":[null,0],"12":0}">Susan Ferriss joined the Center in 2011, where she has covered immigration, criminal justice and education. As a Cox Newspapers Latin America correspondent, Susan won Overseas Press Club and Inter-American Press Association honors for reports on failed promises of Mexican economic reforms. She also covered immigration at the Sacramento Bee, co-wrote The Fight in the Fields, about Cesar Chavez, and produced The Golden Cage, a film about farmworkers. Susan’s “Criminalizing Kids” reports changed school policies and won honors from Columbia University, the Online Journalism Association and the Radio Television Digital News Association. Her reporting on immigrants at Idaho dairies won a regional Edward R. Murrow prize. A Stanford Knight fellow, Susan has a BA in Latin American Studies and an MA in Journalism from the University of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley.

Posted inImmigration

Homeland Security’s civil rights unit lacks power to stop abuse of migrant kids

by Susan Ferriss, Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak and Joshua E.S. Phillips August 2, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Number of ICE detainees with no criminal record rises sharply, defying Trump rhetoric

by Susan Ferriss June 25, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration Decoded

Employers escape sanctions, while the undocumented risk lives and prosecution

by Susan Ferriss May 31, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Data defies Trump’s claims that refugees and asylees burden taxpayers

by Madeline Buiano and Susan Ferriss May 8, 2019March 1, 2022
Posted inImmigration Decoded

Americans’ immigration emergency: Their spouses could be deported, or exiled

by Susan Ferriss February 19, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration Decoded

Commentary: Trump’s immigration blame game

by Susan Ferriss February 6, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration Decoded

ICE failed to penalize contract immigrant jails with thousands of safety and rights violations

by Susan Ferriss February 1, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inAsk Immigration Decoded

Trump justifies shutdown, wall by bashing immigrants’ role in economy. What’s true?

by Susan Ferriss January 8, 2019January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Nigerian-American man alleges nightmare of abuse by border officers at D.C. airport

by Susan Ferriss December 11, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration Decoded

Images of migrant throngs are real, but so are individual life-or-death stories

by Susan Ferriss November 30, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Tragic immigrant deaths fuel drive to ‘flip’ California GOP congressional district

by Susan Ferriss November 5, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration Decoded

How Trump’s language led to a temporary halt to ending TPS

by Susan Ferriss and Madeline Buiano October 4, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Homeland Security watchdog attacks ICE for dangers at immigrant detention center

by Susan Ferriss October 2, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Family separations: What happened to the nursing baby?

by Madeline Buiano and Susan Ferriss October 1, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Despite outrage over immigrant detention, private prisons’ bottom line is still strong

by Susan Ferriss and Madeline Buiano September 1, 2018January 7, 2022
Posted inImmigration

‘Shocked and humiliated’: Lawsuits accuse Customs, Border officers of invasive searches of minors, women

by Susan Ferriss August 19, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Let migrant children bid for asylum separate from parents’ cases, lawyers say

by Madeline Buiano and Susan Ferriss August 2, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Family separation, U.S. treaties and asylum obligations: What’s legal?

by Madeline Buiano and Susan Ferriss July 26, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

How border migration is testing the public’s grasp of due process and U.S. asylum obligations

by Susan Ferriss June 27, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Michigan official says migrant kids sent across country without sure way to find parents

by Susan Ferriss June 22, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

What’s behind the policy separating kids from their parents at the border?

by Susan Ferriss June 19, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Trump blamed Democrats for ‘horrible’ bipartisan child migrant law. Here’s its purpose

by Susan Ferriss May 24, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration, Immigration Decoded

The DACA vote divides the California GOP

by Susan Ferriss May 18, 2018January 7, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Jeff Sessions’ latest border plan clashes with legal and economic realities

by Susan Ferriss May 11, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Trump’s TPS cancellations could lead more than 300,000 to become undocumented

by Susan Ferriss May 4, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

U.S. travel warnings for Central America echo the danger caravan’s migrants say they face

by Susan Ferriss April 30, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

How Trump and Sessions cherry-picked data to blame immigrants for lower wages

by Susan Ferriss April 30, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

The Supreme Court voided part of a law requiring deportation for certain crimes. Here’s what that means

by Susan Ferriss April 27, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

As Trump plans for troops at the border, numbers show border arrests are down

by Susan Ferriss April 4, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inImmigration

Honduran boy who lost asylum bid wasn’t entitled to government-appointed counsel, court rules

by Susan Ferriss January 30, 2018January 28, 2022

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