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SELECTED WRITING 

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COVER STORY: The Fatal Flaw in Border Patrol's Rescue Operations (High Country News Magazine/Type Investigations) 

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No Children Here (The Baffler, No. 71)  

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The Sick Little Afghan Girl the U.S. Left Behind (POLITICO Magazine)  

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Sex and The Citizenship Process (Lux Magazine) 

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'I became a Jailer': The Origins of Immigrant Detention (Bloomberg CityLab) 

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The 'Great Replacement Theory' Was Never 'Fringe' (Harper's Bazaar)

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When Modernism Thrived in South Asia (Bloomberg CityLab)

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An Anatomy of 'Diversity Plaza' (Urban Omnibus)

The Death and Life of an American 'Tent City' (CityLab)

The Othered Paris (CityLab)

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Inside Homestead (CQ Magazine)

Where Cities Detain Immigrants (CityLab)

The Link Between Border Patrol and Urban Policing (CityLab)

On Weaponizing Migration (CityLab)

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Mothers and their children are battling COVID-19 in detention (The Fuller Project)

The Story of a City, In One Building (CityLab)

When Welfare is Left to Algorithms (The Atlantic)

The Great (South Asian) American Road Trip (CityLab)

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Indian climate activist arrested, caught in 'sedition' dragnet (Teen Vogue)

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911 Analysis: AZ Dispatchers Discriminate Against Migrants (High Country News/Type Investigations) 

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"They’re Using our Tax Money to Kill our Loved Ones." (POLITICO Magazine)  

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The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison (The Nation)  

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The Children of Tech Workers Pushing for Immigration Relief (The Verge)

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11 U.S. newborns were sent to Mexico under ongoing border ban  (The Guardian)

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'Broader Crisis' (The Baffler)

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Indians in America Share Stories of Covid-19 Grief (NBC) 

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The Ugly Bipartisan Obsession with The 'Right' Number of Immigrants (The New Republic)

I am Not India's Daughter (The Atlantic) 

Turbans Helped Some African Americans Cross the Jim Crow Color Line (NPR)

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At the border, suffering in many languages (CQ Magazine)

Inside The Massive 'Border Zone' (CityLab)

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The political power of naturalized citizens (CQ Magazine)

Your Neighborhood Immigrant Prison is Influencing Congress (CityLab)

The Other Side of MLK Boulevard (CityLab)

Hurricane Harvey Hit The Most Vulnerable Texans (The Atlantic)

Who Wins when France Wins (The Atlantic)

I Survived D.C.'s 'Sweat Crawl' (CityLab)

The Dollar Store Backlash (CityLab)

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