Adolfo Flores
Adolfo Flores is a national security correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles. He focuses on immigration.
Contact this reporter at adolfo.flores@buzzfeed.com
US Border Patrol Absolved Itself In The Death Of A 7-Year-Old From Guatemala
Border authorities said the father signed a form saying she wasn’t sick. The form was in English and explained to him in Spanish, a language he apparently doesn’t speak.
Adolfo Flores
• 5 hours ago
A 7-Year-Old Girl Died Hours After She Was Taken Into Custody By US Border Patrol Agents
The Guatemalan girl started having seizures and was found to have a body temperature over 105 degrees after she and her father were detained in New Mexico.
Salvador Hernandez
• 21 hours ago
The Number Of US Troops On The Border Has Dropped By Nearly A Third
Central Americans continue to arrive in northern Mexico, but the US military has cut the number of troops deployed on the border.
Vera Bergengruen
• 2 hours ago
A Border Patrol Media Officer Had To Remind His Agency Not To Describe Immigrants As #CatchOfTheDay
“Whether an illegal alien or alleged (or even convicted) criminal, all are human, and should be treated humanely.”
Adolfo Flores
• 8 days ago
A Border Patrol Agent Has Been Indicted For Capital Murder In The Deaths Of Four Women
Authorities said Juan David Ortiz confessed to killing the four women. He’s been jailed since Sept. 15. The charges make him eligible for the death penalty.
Adolfo Flores
• 9 days ago
These Senators Are Demanding That ICE Release The Details On The Death Of A Transgender Detainee
"ICE’s failure to release this report diminishes the systemic, traumatic, and in this case fatal, violence that transgender individuals experience daily."
Adolfo Flores
• 9 days ago
The Pentagon Will Start Sending Green-Card Holders To Recruit Training Following A Court Order
After losing a court battle, the Pentagon will suspend a stringent background check policy that had kept hundreds of legal permanent residents from recruit training.
Adolfo Flores
• 10 days ago
Facing A Monthslong Wait To Apply For Asylum, These Members Of The Caravan Went Searching For Another Way In
Unwilling to wait weeks in Mexico to press their asylum claims, a group of 30 caravan members, with a BuzzFeed News reporter in tow, search for a way to skirt the border barriers.
Adolfo Flores
• 12 days ago
Transgender Members Of The Caravan Are Having A Hard Time Finding Sponsors In The US
"If they don't have a sponsor, they'll have to fight their case in detention."
Adolfo Flores
• 14 days ago
How Close Did The Caravan Come To Breaching US Border Defenses At San Diego? Turns Out, Not That Close.
The 42 people from the caravan who crossed into US territory and were arrested over the weekend only made it to a no-man’s-land between two border fences.
Adolfo Flores
• 16 days ago
The Mother In This Iconic Photo Of Sunday’s Border Teargassing Was Thinking Only Of Getting Her Children To Safety
“I thought my kids were going to die with me because of the gas we inhaled.”
Adolfo Flores
• 18 days ago
Migrants Being Teargassed At The Border Is The Inevitable Consequence Of Trump’s Immigration Policies
Trump's policies to discourage migrants from coming to the US have only made the situation worse at the border.
Adolfo Flores
• 18 days ago
The US Has Fired Tear Gas And Closed The Largest Border Crossing With Mexico After Migrants Marched To The Border
At least one member of the march made it into the United States and was apprehended. Mexican police urged the marchers to return to the stadium in Tijuana where many have been living for days.
Adolfo Flores
• 19 days ago
This Is What The World Looks Like For Kids Traveling In The Caravan
Are the kids all right?
Kate Bubacz
• 22 days ago
Most Members Of The Migrant Caravan Haven't Come Close To A US Soldier
“It is what it is."
Adolfo Flores
• 24 days ago
LGBT Members Of The Caravan Went Ahead First To Dodge Danger And Discrimination
“These people have been harassed and terrible things have happened to them solely because of who they are.”
Adolfo Flores
• 29 days ago
The US Is Making It Harder To Cross The Border At Tijuana
Troops deployed by the Trump administration spent Tuesday putting up wires and fencing at one of the busiest crossing points on the border.
Hamed Aleaziz
• One month ago
Here's What's Wrong With Trump's Plan To Grant Asylum Only To Migrants Who Cross At A Port Of Entry
The waiting list to ask for asylum at the border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego is 1,000 people long. A Venezuelan who’d like to ask for asylum himself is in charge.
Adolfo Flores
• One month ago