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Joanna Slater

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National Correspondent at The Washington Post

Reporter at @washingtonpost. Former India Bureau Chief. Previously: @globeandmail, @WSJ, FEER. Delhi, New York, Berlin, Mumbai, HK. @[email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | unionleader.com | Joanna Slater

    A Turkish graduate student detained outside her apartment by masked ICE agents last month was not told why she was being arrested and feared she was being abducted as she was transferred between cars and moved out of Massachusetts, a court document says. Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, did not know that the State Department had revoked her visa when she was apprehended on March 25 near Boston.

  • 1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

    Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life (washingtonpost.com) Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life By Joanna Slater 2025041115490600 A Turkish graduate student detained outside her apartment by masked ICE agents last month was not told why she was being arrested and feared she was being abducted as she was transferred between cars and moved out of Massachusetts, a court document says.

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Joanna Slater

    Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life“I had never seen police approach and take someone away like this,” wrote Rumeysa Ozturk in a declaration from detention in Louisiana. A Turkish graduate student detained outside her apartment by masked ICE agents last month was not told why she was being arrested and feared she was being abducted …

  • 3 weeks ago | adn.com | Joanna Slater |Lisa Rein

    CUMBERLAND, Maine - When the acting head of the Social Security Administration ordered the termination of two data collection contracts with Maine in late February, a senior official on his leadership team warned him that the move would increase fraud. That didn’t matter, the agency chief responded. It was more important to punish Maine’s Democratic governor Janet Mills. Mills was “disrespectful” and “unprofessional” during an event with President Donald Trump, wrote Leland Dudek in a Feb.

  • 3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Joanna Slater |Lisa Rein

    The move to cut a key service for new parents and a system that allows quick reporting of deaths - later reversed - was one of a series of measures targeting Maine taken by federal agencies following a brief but pointed exchange between Trump and Mills during a National Governors Association event at the White House on Feb. 21. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.

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Joanna Slater
Joanna Slater @jslaternyc
5 Nov 24

RT @arelisrhdz: In today’s @washingtonpost, we tell the story of an asylum-seeking family from 🇻🇪 we met in 🇲🇽 & followed them to 🗽 to tell…

Joanna Slater
Joanna Slater @jslaternyc
19 Sep 24

RT @cathleendecker: Routh’s strange journey from running a roofing company in N.C. to what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt…

Joanna Slater
Joanna Slater @jslaternyc
11 Aug 24

RT @washingtonpost: A former high school classmate urged Post reporter Danielle Paquette to look into why two brothers, Josiah and Jeremiah…