Alex Pena

New York

Senior Video Journalist at The New York Times

Producer, CBS Reports Documentaries

Articles

En Nashville, los voluntarios se las ingenian para contrarrestar los operativos de ICE

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña |Emily Cochrane

Algunas organizaciones difunden avisos sobre los lugares donde se ha visto a la Patrulla de Caminos de Tennessee con agentes de migración. Video Back transcriptICE Agents and State Troopers Team Up in Nashville OperationIn early May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted alongside Tennessee State Highway Patrol troopers in areas of Nashville, partnering up for a weeklong operation that turned routine traffic stops into immigration arrests.
ICE Agents and State Troopers Team Up in Nashville Operation

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña |Daniel Vergara |Amy Marino |Jon Hazell
In Nashville, Volunteers Are Figuring Out How to Counter ICE

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña |Emily Cochrane

Back transcriptICE Agents and State Troopers Team Up in Nashville OperationIn early May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted alongside Tennessee State Highway Patrol troopers in areas of Nashville, partnering up for a weeklong operation that turned routine traffic stops into immigration arrests. It's late at night in South Nashville, and the seventh day of a weeklong immigration sweep here.
US court orders return of another deportee from El Salvador

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña

The Trump administration was ordered by an appeals court to facilitate the return of a Venezuelan man who was deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador - at least the second time the administration has been told to bring back a migrant it wrongly removed.
What is stopping Trump from exiling you to a foreign prison?

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña

WASHINGTON - With cameras rolling in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump told reporters this week that he would carefully study the law before deciding whether to exile Americans accused of violent crimes to prisons overseas, where, according to his administration, U.S. courts are powerless to respond.
What is Tren De Aragua?

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña

President Donald Trump’s deportation of alleged foreign gang members, including the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, has made headlines, with his administration facing allegations that it is not following due process and wrongly imprisoning innocent people. Tren de Aragua, which was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. in February 2025, has been repeatedly mentioned by Trump as part of his hardened immigration crackdown.
‘Crime of tattooing’: Why experts say body ink is no way to ID Venezuelan gang members

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña

Stars, crowns, roses and watch tattoos can land you in prison if you are a Venezuelan man in the United States. U.S. immigration agents have been flagging Venezuelans, especially men, for suspected ties to the feared Tren de Aragua gang based on tattoos, including animals, basketball symbols and reggaeton lyrics. The Trump administration invoked a 227-year old wartime law last month to target Venezuelans, sending hundreds of alleged members of the gang to a mega prison in El Salvador.
Supreme Court lets Trump seek deportations under wartime law

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña

WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump resume using a wartime law to try to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, giving the administration a boost in a high-profile clash over the limits of presidential power. Granting an emergency request by Trump on a 5-4 vote, the justices tossed out a lower court order that had paused deportations under the Alien Enemies Act while litigation continues.
US asks Supreme Court to halt order to undo deportation error

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene Monday and block a lower court order mandating the return of an immigrant mistakenly deported to El Salvador in a high-profile challenge to the administration's immigration crackdown. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and his family filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court, arguing that the removal violated an immigration judge's 2019 order that he not be deported to El Salvador due to possible persecution.
Trump turns to Supreme Court on wrongly deported Salvadoran

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block an order to bring back a Maryland man who immigration officials conceded was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in his native El Salvador. The administration filed its request Monday just as a federal appeals court unanimously declined to block U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis's order, which gives the United States until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia.