The court ruling that forced the Trump administration to reunite families separated at the border applies only to parents, excluding legal guardians.
Laura C. Morel
Reporter
Laura C. Morel is a reporter for Reveal, covering immigration.
She previously was a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, where she covered criminal justice issues. She was a 2017 finalist for a Livingston Award, which recognizes young journalists, for an investigation with two other reporters into Walmart’s excessive use of police resources.
In 2016, Morel became one of Reveal’s inaugural investigative fellows. The program, aimed at increasing diversity among the ranks of investigative journalists, offers reporters embedded at their home outlets the training and mentoring to pursue an investigative project. Morel’s fellowship project exposed the extent of Florida’s gun theft problem.
Born and raised in Miami, Morel is fluent in Spanish. She is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Posted inInequality, Kids on the Line
‘They used the kids to get to parents like me’: How ICE’s human smuggling initiative targeted parents and children
A review of the operation by Reveal casts doubt on the official narrative.
Posted inAccountability, Immigration, Kids on the Line
Salvadoran man has evidence he’s not a gang member. US still separated him from his kids
The government hasn’t provided any proof of its claim that the man is affiliated with MS-13. He hasn’t seen his two kids in three months.
Posted inImmigration, Inequality, Kids on the Line
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the tent city for migrant kids
Lack of access to the pop-up federal detention camp has frustrated town residents and alarmed advocates who question the conditions there.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
Government could hold migrant families indefinitely in unlicensed detention centers under new plan
New regulations would affect the nearly 13,000 children currently in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Posted inImmigration, Law Enforcement, Militarization of Police
The government won’t talk about its training for officers and troops at the border
We asked what training are officers and troops at the border getting. The government didn’t answer.
Posted inKids on the Line
Shiloh had a history of death and drugging. Texas schools keep sending students there
At least seven districts have sent students with special needs to Shiloh Treatment Center in recent years.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
Immigrant children still being drugged at shelter despite judge’s order, lawyers say
Attorneys for immigrant children held at a troubled Texas shelter say kids continue to be forcibly drugged there despite a judge’s order.
Posted inImmigration
A Mauritanian man escaped his country’s ethnic cleansing. ICE deported him anyway.
Seyni Malick Diagne lived in the U.S. for 17 years. Battling cancer, he was deported last month to Mauritania, where he faces arrest and enslavement.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
A judge ordered immigrant children removed from troubled Texas facility. They’re still there.
Nearly a month ago, a judge ordered immigrant children removed from a troubled Texas facility and told the government to stop drugging them without consent. That hasn’t happened.