Maurizio Guerrero

New York

Investigative Reporter at Freelance

Journalist, New York: @InTheseTimesMag @PrismReports @DocumentedNY @Pass_Blue / @MALSCUNY @GC_Migration mauriziogro-at-yahoo-dot-com @[email protected]

Articles

Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed

1 month ago | inthesetimes.com | Maurizio Guerrero

This article is part of the In These Times Labor Organizer of the Year series. The award honors emerging leaders building worker power across the country. In a southern, Republican state, against incredible odds, an Indigenous immigrant managed to organize her coworkers — most of whom were, like herself, undocumented — and obtain legal protections against life-threatening working conditions in a notoriously exploitative industry.
Queens Man Charged for Green Card Fraud, Posing as 'ICE' Federal Agent

2 months ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Rommel H Ojeda |Maurizio Guerrero |April Xiaoyi Xu

Queens resident Tommy Aijie Da Silva Weng, also known as “Tommy Weng Da Silva” and “Jacky,” was arrested this morning after prosecutors charged Weng with impersonating a federal law enforcement officer and defrauding a victim by falsely claiming he could secure her a green card through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program.
Criminalized by Trump, Venezuelans in the U.S. Feel Persecuted On Two Fronts

2 months ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Rommel H Ojeda |Yoav Gonen |Maurizio Guerrero

Apart from their names, made public in a leaked document published on the evening of March 20 by CBS News, the public still knows little about the 238 Venezuelans expelled four days earlier from the United States to a notoriously cruel prison in El Salvador, as they were denied due process in an immigration court.
Serving New York's Asylum Seekers During Holy Month of Ramadan

2 months ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Maurizio Guerrero |Yoav Gonen |Rommel H Ojeda

In the early hours of Sunday, March 16, just as the clock edged toward 4:30 a.m., a group of volunteers with the organization Afrikana arrived at a shelter in Manhattan. The volunteers were there to serve Suhoor, the pre-dawn meal for Muslims observing the sacred month of Ramadan.
March 31 Event: Learn How To Spot & Avoid Immigration Scams

2 months ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Maurizio Guerrero |Yoav Gonen |Amir Khafagy |Madeline Faber

At Documented, we’ve seen an increase in people who fraudulently pose as immigration authorities or immigration lawyers to gain access to migrants’ personal information. These scams may offer false promises of legal help and work permits — or more sinister threats that a warrant is out for target’s arrest. We’re teaming up with Envision Freedom Fund for a free, multilingual webinar to inform our readers about the presence of immigration-related scams and what to do about them.
ICE Contractor Fights to Pay Detainee Workers $1 a Day

2 months ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Rommel H Ojeda |Maurizio Guerrero |Amir Khafagy

Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. An ICE contractor is worth billions.
Trump signals defunding legal services for unaccompanied children

2 months ago | prismreports.org | Maurizio Guerrero

The Trump administration seems intent on defunding essential legal lifelines for 26,000 unaccompanied migrant children, some only a few months old, who would have to attend immigration court hearings without an attorney—dramatically reducing their chances of avoiding deportation. On Feb. 18, the Trump administration issued a stop-work order that abruptly paused legal services for unaccompanied migrant children.
Ice Is Swiftly Expanding Its Sprawling Surveillance Apparatus

Feb 3, 2025 | progressivehub.net | Maurizio Guerrero

Within days of Trump’s presidential win, ICE sought out contractors to enlarge, transform, and modernize the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens. By Maurizio Guerrero, PrismThe U.S. federal agency in charge of detaining and deporting immigrants is poised to expand to unprecedented levels the sprawling surveillance apparatus left by the Biden administration.
ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Its Already Vast Surveillance Apparatus

Feb 1, 2025 | truthout.org | Maurizio Guerrero

The U.S. federal agency in charge of detaining and deporting immigrants is poised to expand to unprecedented levels the sprawling surveillance apparatus left by the Biden administration.
ICE Is Swiftly Expanding Its Sprawling Surveillance Apparatus

Jan 31, 2025 | popularresistance.org | Maurizio Guerrero

Above photo: ICE police officers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons. The U.S. federal agency in charge of detaining and deporting immigrants is poised to expand to unprecedented levels the sprawling surveillance apparatus left by the Biden administration.