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Andrea Castillo
@andreamcastillo
@LATimes reporter covering immigration. She/her. Hablo español. Tips: Andrea(dot)Castillo(at)latimes.com. Signal: acastillo.01
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Apr 1, 2020
    Carlos Garcia is 73 and suffers from diabetes but is still working in Central Valley orange groves. He said his employer hasn’t provided workers with any extra protections, so he’s covering up and keeping his hands clean in an attempt to stay healthy.
    Carlos Garcia, 73, lives in Sanger and has been working this week at an orange orchard near Reedley in the San Joaquin Valley. He said he's being extra cautious amid the coronavirus pandemic because of his age and the fact that he suffers from diabetes. He now wears long sleeves and gloves at all times. He washes his hands before and after using the bathroom, and again before he heads home for the day. When he gets...
    Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: 'You can't pick strawberries over Zoom'
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Oct 2, 2022
    I found out that thousands of interpreters were unjustly denied visas promised to those who worked with the U.S. in Afghanistan, despite having the support of their military supervisors.
    'Blacklisted' Afghan interpreters were disqualified from U.S. visas. Now they’re in hiding
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Oct 18, 2020
    @palomaesquivel and I found a system involving ICE, private prison companies, local law enforcement and prosecutors in which violence can be perpetuated against detainees with impunity. I hope you’ll read our story.
    J. Lee, 38, said he was sexually assaulted by his cellmate while he was detained at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.
    California police got hundreds of calls about abuse in private ICE detention centers. Cases were...
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Aug 23, 2019
    Exclusive: ICE shut down a hotline for detained immigrants two weeks after it was featured on 'Orange Is the New Black'
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    ICE shut down a hotline for detained immigrants after it was featured on 'Orange Is the New Black'
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Jan 16, 2020
    Last May, @yamphoto and I traveled to the Colombia border to walk with people fleeing from Venezuela. We covered 125 miles in five days. Here's what we found latimes.com/projects/venez…
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Aug 4, 2022
    My latest, attempting to put the massive backlogs throughout the entire immigration system into context: More than a million could die waiting for green cards as U.S. immigration buckles amid COVID
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    More than a million could die waiting for green cards as U.S. immigration buckles amid COVID
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Sep 21, 2017
    Oh my god someone is yelling back from the rubble pile. Workers keep calling for silence. The voice is incomprehensible but it's there.
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Dec 11, 2018
    People have started taking Lime scooters to the literal border #justmillennialthings
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Apr 1, 2020
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    Many of the state’s 420,000 farm workers are undocumented, lack health insurance and don’t qualify for unemployment insurance or federal COVID-19 relief
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Jun 7, 2019
    I spent three weeks in Colombia learning about Venezuelan migration. Here's my first story, about the thousands of babies who are ending up stateless: They were born in Colombia. Their parents fled Venezuela. They are citizens of nowhere
    BOGOTA, D.C. -- FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019: Belys Torrealba Tovar, 24, gets one-on-one time with her newborn, Angel, at the Hospital Materno Infantil Bogota where more than a dozen births are made a day and a third of them are Venezuelans, in Bogota, Colombia, on May 3, 2019. Unlike the United States and?most countries in Latin America, Colombia does not automatically grant citizenship to anybody born there. And though he...
    They were born in Colombia. Their parents fled Venezuela. They are citizens of nowhere
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Sep 21, 2017
    A family member called the trapped person. Her ringtone played back from inside the pile. Her name is Lorna. She lived on the second floor.
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Jan 10, 2022
    Ahem, a bit of news: I've been temporarily filling in for the inimitable @mollymotoole the last few months. She's now on book leave (!) so I'll be taking over our federal immigration coverage from DC. I'll be back permanently in March
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    Andrea Castillo joins Washington Bureau to cover federal immigration policy
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Oct 2, 2022
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    When the last American troops left last year, those stuck in Afghanistan went into hiding. “I spent my whole adult life working for the U.S. military," one interpreter told me, "and then I was a bad guy.”
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    Andrea Castillo
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    Apr 11, 2020
    What
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    NPR Politics
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    Apr 10, 2020
    White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry npr.org/2020/04/10/832…