During a Tucson raid last week, photos taken by observers show one vehicle standing out with a clear agency name: DEA, or Drug Enforcement Administration. That agency has traditionally focused on enforcing drug laws, including targeting people who produce and sell prohibited drugs. But under the Trump administration’s crackdown, DEA agents are increasingly arresting immigrants, […]
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
