Tanvi Misra

Washington, D.C.

Journalist and Writer at Freelance

I cover migration and justice. @typeinvestigate @POLITICOMag @newrepublic @guardian @thebafflermag etc. prev. Teaching @ @newmarkjschool Signal: tanvim.05

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Articles

Force Multiplier

1 month ago | thebaffler.com | Tanvi Misra |Jess Bergman

In the middle of last month, a Florida state trooper pulled over a car after it crossed the state border from Georgia, allegedly for speeding. The officer arrested all three men inside, including a twenty-year-old U.S. citizen passenger named Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez—and promptly booked them under the state’s recently passed, and subsequently blocked, law barring undocumented people from entering Florida.
‘He’s just a kid’: the Maryland teenager swept into Trump immigration dragnet

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Tanvi Misra

When 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detention center in northern Texas, he had no idea where he was being taken. He wondered if he was being transferred to another facility or maybe deported back to his native Venezuela. He and the other passengers, their hands and feet shackled, settled into a tense silence. Then a terrifying possibility crept into Salazar’s mind.
The Deportation Dragnet

2 months ago | jewishcurrents.org | Tanvi Misra

On March 7th, Ranjani Srinivasan, a Columbia University doctoral student from India and the holder of an F-1 student visa, was on a Zoom call with an advisor from the university’s international students’ office when a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knocked on her door.
What Will You Do?

Mar 28, 2025 | thenation.com | Kaveh Akbar |Laura Jedeed |Sasha Abramsky |Tanvi Misra

Activism / March 28, 2025 What Will You Do? What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list? Ad Policy Rumeysa Ozturk being arrested byICE.(CBS News)Tonight I opened Instagram on my iPhone and the very first thing it showed me was a video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, being arrested by ICE.
“Essentially Cages”: ICE Is Using Courthouse Cells for Lengthy Detentions

Mar 17, 2025 | thenation.com | Tanvi Misra

March 17, 2025 “Essentially Cages”: ICE Is Using Courthouse Cells for Lengthy DetentionsDetainees report not having access to private toilets, showers, hygiene products, and lifesaving HIV and diabetes medication. Edit Ad Policy US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Officer director Matt Elliston listens during a briefing on January 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo) This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations.
At Home He’s a Tourist

Jan 6, 2025 | thebaffler.com | Matthew Goodman |Tanvi Misra

On the morning of November 5, the day of the 2024 presidential election, the algorithm delivered me the promise of escape. Titled “Here’s How to Buy Citizenship in Another Country,” the article lamented the global character of climate change and the fact that “political turmoil is upending longstanding democracies.” Despite the polycrisis’s indifference to borders, the author suggested I might be happier elsewhere.
What Does Caste Have to Do With Kamala Harris?

Sep 26, 2024 | harpersbazaar.com | Tanvi Misra

At the large white marble-top kitchen island, two American women of Indian descent are chopping onions and exchanging notes on their similar family backgrounds. “So, South Indians, it’s vegetarian,” says then-Senator Kamala Harris to comedian and producer Mindy Kaling, who responds with an anecdote about visiting her own strict, vegetarian Hindu family in South India.
The Fatal Flaw in the Border Patrol’s Rescue Program

Sep 4, 2024 | truthdig.com | Tanvi Misra

This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Tanvi Misra was an Ida B. Wells fellow. Este artículo también está disponible en español. The two Guatemalan boys huddled under a shiny black blanket that reflected the moonlight. It was their first night alone. Their only link to family was a cellphone, so they texted their uncle, Carlos D.L., in California: “Tío conteste, nos dejaron tirados.” Uncle, they left us here.
The fatal flaw in the Border Patrol’s rescue program

Sep 1, 2024 | hcn.org | Tanvi Misra

This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Tanvi Misra was an Ida B. Wells fellow. Este artículo también está disponible en español. The two Guatemalan boys huddled under a shiny black blanket that reflected the moonlight. It was their first night alone. Their only link to family was a cellphone, so they texted their uncle, Carlos D.L., in California: “Tío conteste, nos dejaron tirados.” Uncle, they left us here.
La falla fatal en las operaciones de rescate de la Patrulla Fronteriza

Sep 1, 2024 | hcn.org | Tanvi Misra

This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Tanvi Misra was an Ida B. Wells fellow. This article is also available in English. Los dos chicos guatemaltecos se acurrucaron bajo una manta negra brillante que reflejaba la luz de la luna. Era su primera noche solos. Su único vínculo con la familia era un teléfono celular, así que le enviaron un mensaje de texto a su tío, Carlos D.L., en California: “Tío conteste, nos dejaron tirados”.