Julia Preston

Julia Preston is a journalist and author. She was a contributing writer at The Marshall Project from 2017 to 2024 and the National Immigration Correspondent for The New York Times from 2006 to 2016. (March 2025)

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Vanishing Rights

Vanishing Rights

April 29, 2025

In Trump’s Dragnet

In Trump’s Dragnet

Over the past two months, the president has been doing just what he promised during his campaign: assaulting every aspect of the US immigration system.

March 30, 2025

Deportation Nation

Deportation Nation

The deportation system held sway over immigrant communities long before Trump became president, but under his direction it has become even more far-reaching, arbitrary, and cruel.

The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants

by Adam Goodman

The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration’s Hidden Front Line

by Michael Kagan

October 8, 2020 issue

Immigrants Under Siege

Deportations are creating an extraordinary rupture in immigrants’ connections to the society around them.

Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans

by Luis H. Zayas

Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

by Roberto G. Gonzales, with a foreword by Jose Antonio Vargas

May 25, 2017 issue

Remembering Bob Silvers

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

The Truth About Mexican-Americans

Thanks to Trump, Latinos may finally in 2016 achieve the electoral power that is the promise of their history and immigrant destiny

Mexicans in the Making of America

by Neil Foley

A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story

by Tom Gjelten

The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America

by Mario T. García

Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population Is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation

by Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura

December 3, 2015 issue

Looking Back at the Revolution

Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua

by Stephen Kinzer

Inside Central America: Its People, Politics, and History

by Clifford Krauss

July 18, 1991 issue

The Defeat of the Sandinistas

The Defeat of the Sandinistas

April 12, 1990 issue

The Case of the Cessna 310: An Exchange

March 15, 1990 issue

The Battle for San Salvador

February 1, 1990 issue

The Trial that Shook Cuba

December 7, 1989 issue

What Duarte Won

August 15, 1985 issue

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