Steven Davis’ first time volunteering to observe U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s local operations ended with him recording a military-clad agent wearing a black face mask breaking an older Latino man’s truck window during an arrest. The man had just left a neighborhood grocery store on Tucson’s south side. A grassroots network released the video […]
Author Archives: Rafael Carranza
Rafael Carranza is a bilingual multimedia reporter born in Mexico and raised in Arizona who has covered the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and immigrant communities for the past 15 years. He previously worked as a border and immigration reporter for The Arizona Republic and the USA Today Network, where he led several multimedia projects, including an investigative podcast about a cross-border shooting in Arizona. Carranza was part of the reporting team awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for “The Wall” and received an Emmy for his video reporting on the project, which looked at the impacts of the construction of border barriers.
Contact: rcarranza@azluminaria.org
