ProPublica announced Friday that it hired Mica Rosenberg as an immigration reporter. Rosenberg comes to us from Reuters, where she most recently led its immigration team as both a reporter and editor and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting with colleagues for a series of stories about companies employing immigrant children.
Rosenberg began her time at Reuters in Guatemala, filing dispatches on the legacy of that country’s repressive human rights history. She later became a senior correspondent for Reuters in Mexico City and reported from 10 countries across the region, including Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela. Her 18-month investigation into corrupt deals that were worth billions of dollars at Mexico's state-run oil company used data that she obtained through that country’s fledgling freedom of information laws and triggered probes by Mexican authorities.
Rosenberg’s other work on the beat explored rising deaths and changing demographics and new smuggling networks at the U.S.-Mexico border, and it revealed disparities in COVID-19 infections among immigrant communities and government negligence in failing to suspend the transfers of immigrant detainees, which caused unnecessary deaths in custody during the pandemic. She also worked on projects examining some of the long-standing inequities in the immigration court system and the unregulated world of labor brokers bringing temporary workers into the U.S.
“I have long admired the groundbreaking and agenda-setting journalism produced by ProPublica,” said Rosenberg, “and am beyond excited to be joining an organization focused on investigations that serve the public interest.”
“Immigration will play a key factor in this year’s election and beyond,” ProPublica Managing Editor Ginger Thompson said. “We’re thrilled to have someone with Mica’s experience and reputation for rigor joining us to cover this critical beat.”
Rosenberg was born and raised in New Mexico, is an adviser for the Columbia University Investigations fellowship program and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
