Sarah Macaraeg

Sarah Macaraeg is an award-winning investigative journalist.

Sarah Macaraeg is an award-winning investigative journalist whose New Mexico-based reporting on US Customs and Border Protection and for-profit Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers has been featured at Democracy Now!, The Guardian, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and daily newspapers across New Mexico. Prior to reporting on immigration enforcement, Macaraeg covered police and prosecutorial misconduct in Chicago, where she co-wrote an investigation on the controversial “felony murder” law which won the national Sidney Award.


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Former detainees tell New Mexico legislators about abuses in immigration detention as county seeks to renew contracts

Immigration

It is rare for legislators at the state level to take action to limit the federal immigration agency. At a recent hearing, advocates asked New Mexico to do just that.