Max Rivlin-Nadler
Speak City Heights ReporterMax Rivlin-Nadler is an investigative journalist whose reporting has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, the New Republic, the Village Voice and Gothamist. His years-long investigation into New York City's arcane civil forfeiture laws led to a series of lawsuits and reforms which altered a practice that had been taking millions from poor communities for decades. He has reported extensively on immigration and criminal justice issues, including the treatment of asylum-seekers along the border, San Diego's District Attorney race, and the criminalization of homelessness in the midst of California's deepening affordability crisis. A native of Queens, New York, Max attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he majored in creative writing.
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The flow of asylum-seekers being allowed into the US at the San Ysidro Port of Entry for processing was reduced to a near-standstill. The Department of Homeland Security is now giving conflicting messages whether this has led to asylum-seekers to try to scale the border fence. -
KPBS Midday EditionAsylum-seekers in Tijuana expressed a mix of frustration and desperation Tuesday over a new Trump administration rule that would bar most of them from declaring asylum in the United States. -
KPBS Midday EditionReversing decades of U.S. policy, the Trump administration said Monday it will end all asylum protections for most migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border — the president's most forceful attempt yet to block asylum claims and slash the number of people seeking refuge in America. -
This week, the list of people waiting to enter the United States through the San Ysidro port of entry reached over 9,000 people. -
KPBS Midday EditionLast week, the San Diego Commission on Gang Prevention passed a resolution that asks the City Council to immediately release any San Diego residents from decades-old gang injunctions. -
KPBS Midday EditionOver a hundred asylum-seekers from Cameroon blocked the path of Mexican immigration vans Tuesday morning in Tijuana in protest of what they believe to be corruption by Mexican immigration officials.
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