Marco Amador is the Multimedia Editor and Creative Director for Capital & Main, where he oversees all visual content and creates news videos, podcasts and data visualizations. He produced acclaimed documentaries on military recruitment in the Latino community and Arizona’s anti-immigrant law, SB1070, and has created multimedia content for international and national publications. For ten years Amador traveled the country to establish day laborer centers in major American cities, including in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. He is also a musician and has curated music collections from indigenous and rural artists in Mexico.
En el nuevo número de teléfono se podrán denunciar detenciones y enlazar a familiares de los afectados con abogados.
The phone number can be used to report apprehensions and connect families to lawyers.
La oficina federal de inmigración aclaró que no realiza operativos en zonas de evacuación o emergencia.
ICE affirms it does not conduct enforcement at evacuation or assistance sites.
Donald Trump’s administration marked a turning point. His rhetoric and policies emboldened far-right groups, and according to the Southern Poverty Law Center gave rise to new levels of white supremacist influence in mainstream American government and politics.
Durante la presidencia de Donald Trump, al menos una docena de funcionarios y asesores vinculados a grupos o ideologías de supremacía blanca tuvieron funciones formales en su administración.
As the 2024 election approaches, millions of Americans will face new hurdles to voting. In 31 states, there are now voting restrictions that will make casting a ballot more difficult than ever before.
A medida que se acercan las elecciones de 2024, millones de estadounidenses se enfrentarán a nuevos obstáculos para votar. En 31 estados existen restricciones al voto que harán que votar sea más difícil que nunca.
La administración de Donald Trump marcó un punto de inflexión. Su retórica y sus políticas animaron a los grupos de extrema derecha y, según el Southern Poverty Law Center, dieron lugar a nuevos niveles de influencia de la supremacía blanca en el gobierno y la política estadounidenses.
During Donald Trump’s presidency, at least a dozen officials and advisers with ties to white supremacist groups or ideologies had formal roles in his administration.
At least 12 past and present Trump administration staffers have ties to neo-Nazi and anti-immigrant hate groups.
At least a dozen White House figures have ties to racist and anti-immigrant groups. But there’s a long history of this.
Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, talks about the surge in anti-Asian harassment and violence during the pandemic and the communities that are pushing back.
Natalia Molina, historian, author and MacArthur fellow, discusses gentrification and her family’s history of nurturing community.
Rossana Pérez, healer and activist in the Salvadoran community of Los Angeles, talks about the transgenerational trauma that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed.
Natalia Molina, historian, author and MacArthur fellow, discusses gentrification and her family’s history of nurturing community.
The long-time activist talks about the El Sereno community’s struggle for autonomy in the midst of a global pandemic.
Marking two years of pandemic times, Rubén Martínez takes stock of what he has seen. Do you remember?
The Los Angeles-based Zapotec organizer shares how “mutual aid” has always been traditional.
The acclaimed op-ed contributing writer to the N.Y. Times and L.A. Times examines the past, present and future of racialized housing policy.
The activist discusses how to keep communities safe without policing as we know it.
MacArthur Fellow Cristina Rivera Garza spoke to us from her home in San Diego to contemplate the U.S.-Mexico border, something first conceived in the imagination — which means that the imagination can also erase it.
How ICE moves detainees under the cover of darkness.
How Florida Has Become the Epicenter of ICE’s Shameful COVID Response
Detainees at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Adelanto Detention Facility is again in the center of controversy, allegedly using protests taking place outside the facility as an excuse to mistreat detainees.
Since 2003, 19 detainees have died within Arizona’s detention centers.
Detainees’ pleas for help from the Governor’s office have gone unheeded.
Guest: Jose Martinez Gonzales, Detainee at Otay Mesa Detention Center
Guest: Anthony Alexandre, a detainee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
COVID-19 Death at Otay Mesa Detention Center | Guest: Anthony Alexandre, Detainee at Otay Mesa
The 60-day ban, which originally targeted all forms of immigration, now freezes the issuing of green cards.
Facing rent hikes, tenants at Chinatown’s Hillside Villa apartment complex rallied outside their landlord’s home to call for an alternative solution.
DHS’ newly proposed residential centers will be able to detain immigrant families indefinitely.
California has filed suit over a new rule that would deny lawful permanent status to immigrants who use public assistance.
The updated “public charge” rule allows the government to deny visas and green cards to immigrants who have received public assistance.
Low-income tenants fighting to remain in their affordable housing complex score a big win at City Hall.
Reporter Joe Rubin explains how California’s public health department dropped the ball in a Bay Area contamination case.
Twenty-two charters — nearly all of them in high-poverty neighborhoods — accounted for 42 percent of L.A. charter schools’ nearly 3,700 suspensions last year.
According to the Washington Post ‘s “Fatal Force” report, 995 people were shot dead by police officers in 2018.
This month U.S. Border Patrol agents met 200 peaceful, interfaith demonstrators with military-style M4 rifles and tear gas launchers.
U.S. soldiers are not the only ones heading to the border in advance of the migrant caravan. Armed civilian militias have joined a call to deploy their members.
California continues to lead the nation with the largest concentration of hate groups. A recent Anti-Defamation League report claims the state experienced 268 anti-Semitic incidents in 2017.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15 million American households experienced food insecurity at some point in 2017.
In April of 2017, Capital & Main visited the Adelanto Detention Facility to report on substandard medical care that was costing some immigrant detainees their health – and in a few cases, their lives. Following a recent report from the Department of Homeland Security detailing the harsh conditions that continue at Adelanto, we are republishing our original story and this accompanying video.
A recently signed bill was supposed to end the tyranny of money bail over low-income people in California’s jails. But critics say it is an example of good intentions becoming bad law.
According to its critics, what the Los Angeles Police Department advertised as a community engagement tool turned out to be a surveillance program of local Muslims.
California has 75 hate groups, the largest concentration of hate groups in the nation. A new report gives a breakdown of hate crimes reported in the state last year.
Hate crimes have increased 17.4 percent — from 931 incidents in 2016, to 1,093 incidents in 2017.
Recent reports on the use of force by California law enforcement officers reveal a rise in the number of deadly civilian encounters with police.
California allocated $176 million to test and clean 2,500 lead-threatened properties surrounding the closed Exide battery plant near downtown Los Angeles. To date only 335 parcels have been cleaned.
This week the high court upheld the Trump administration’s travel ban that barred nearly all travelers from five mostly Muslim countries.
Scenes from a chaotic week in the Trump administration’s border crackdown.
JeanCarlo Jimenez is one of 179 immigrants to die in U.S. custody since 2003. The missteps and errors of ICE and its contractors have led to concerns about the safety of immigrant detainees.
Capital & Main’s new project, Deadly Detention, is intended to give names and faces to undocumented immigrants who have died in federal detention, and to explain how they met such sad fates in the country most had come to in search of better lives.
A severely disabled boy and his caregiver face an uncertain future with the passage of the American Health Care Act.
For decades white nationalists were a fringe element in American politics. But now anti-immigrant extremists with ties to white supremacists hold key positions at the highest level of government.
Co-published by Newsweek
The Adelanto Detention Facility, operated by a private, for-profit prison company for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is California’s largest immigrant detention center. Recently two detainees died within weeks of each other there.
A video by Marco Amador capturing the optimism of Californians in a time of uncertainty.
Video of protests against the Trump administration’s travel ban.
UCLA’s John Rogers on the Struggle for Democratic School Improvement.
