Records provide the most robust look yet at why and how children ended up in one of ICE’s rare youth detention facilities.

Esmy Jimenez
2020 - 2021 Investigative Fellow
Esmy Jimenez (she/her) is a bilingual journalist born in Mexico and raised in rural Washington state. She reported on immigrant communities and the intersections of identity in the Pacific Northwest and beyond for KUOW. She is an NPR NextGen Radio and ProPublica Data Institute/Ida B. Wells Society fellow.