Tina Vasquez

Tina Vasquez

Senior Reporter, Immigration

Tina Vasquez was senior reporter, immigration for Rewire.News, where she covered the U.S. immigration system and the people it targets.

Previously, Tina was a freelance writer and editor with almost ten years of experience, focusing on intersectional feminism, racial justice, and immigration. She is a recipient of a Media Consortium 2015 Impact Award and a 2018 Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Media Excellence Award. With Rewire.News, she has developed partnerships with the New York Review of Books and NPR’s Latino USA. Tina is a 2014 VONA/Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation alumna and the winner of the Media Consortium’s 2015 Impact Award for her story “It’s Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women.” She has presented at several conferences, including Netroots Nation and the National Judicial Bypass Convening.

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[Photo: Illustration of a scared woman curled up on a floor. She sits behind a wired fence. A menacing shadow of a man is cast near her.]

In Search of Safety: An Investigation of Abuse at an Immigration Facility

Tina Vasquez

Over a ten-month period, Rewire.News partnered with Latino USA to dig into the case of one woman's alleged sexual abuse. What we learned through a FOIA request raised questions about internal investigations at immigration facilities and the safety of thousands of detained immigrants.

[Photo: A Black father holds and consoles his young, crying son.]

‘It’s Horrifying to Think About’: Migrants and Their Young Children Are Held in Isolation at Family Detention Centers

Tina Vasquez

“Even if we give this detention center the benefit of the doubt and say they had good intentions, it’s important that the American public not underestimate how traumatizing these facilities are."

[Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer push an immigrant into an unmarked car after staging a raid at their home.]

No End in Sight for ‘Retaliatory Immigration Raids’ in North Carolina

Tina Vasquez

"We cannot stop ICE from operating in our cities, but we can and must speak out against these raids which destabilize neighborhoods, traumatize children, hurt many innocent people, and create distrust of law enforcement," the mayors of seven North Carolina cities hard-hit by ICE agents said in a joint statement Thursday.