Jacob Soboroff

Jacob Soboroff is the Senior Political and National Reporter for MS NOW and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster and Separated: Inside an American Tragedy.


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Jacob Soboroff

1mos ago
News

‘She kept saying mommy’: A toddler’s traumatic 27 hours in federal immigration custody

Chloe Tipan Villacis was swept up during a raid and detained by ICE. Child detentions have skyrocketed ‘sixfold’ in Trump’s second term, research shows.

2mos ago
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Minnesota judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests

Sources say federal agents aren’t providing evidence that protesters are committing the crimes of which they’re accused.

2mos ago
News

‘Neighborhood is gone’: The moment I had to tell Katie Miller the L.A. fires had destroyed her in-laws’ home

I looked down to see a text message from Stephen Miller’s wife. She was asking if I knew whether a specific street in the Palisades had burned down. Then she sent an address.

2mos ago
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Gov. Gavin Newsom recalls ‘apocalyptic’ Los Angeles fires one year after deadly blazes

Newsom sat down for an interview with MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff, whose book covering the disaster, ‘Firestorm,’ publishes Jan. 6.

5mos ago
News

Trump says immigrants are driving violent crime in Illinois, but ICE can’t find many who are

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

6mos ago
News

The death of Estela Ramos Baten

Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela were deported after a routine check-in. Two months later, Estela was buried with Guatemalan and U.S. flags draped over her coffin.

6mos ago
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The disappearance of Nory Sontay Ramos

Nory and her mother were following the rules. But as MSNBC reports from L.A. and Guatemala, U.S. officials deported them anyway — throwing their futures into jeopardy.

5years ago
MS NOW

Can Biden create a truly ‘safe, orderly and fair’ U.S. immigration system?

Whether America’s decades-old system based on deterrence and punishment will be replaced with something truly better remains an open question.

10years ago
MS NOW

Robert F. Kennedy discussed gun control in Roseburg 50 years ago

Robert F. Kennedy made an impassioned plea for gun control while in Roseburg, Oregon, 50 years ago — only 11 days before he was shot and killed.