NYC’s Argentine Diaspora Finds Joy and Refuge in the World Cup
The 2026 World Cup is unfolding during a moment of compounding pressures for Argentine immigrants in New York City: economic crisis under a far-right government at home, fears of a looming recession in the U.S., and an immigration crackdown that has made even watch parties feel risky.
But to the Argentine fandom, a World Cup win represents the possibility of collective hope and joy during a difficult time.
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Zine: How ALPRs Undermine Portland’s Sanctuary Status
Fi2W Reporting Fellow Narimes Parakul produced an eight-page zine about Fi2W’s investigative series, Surveilled and Sold. Available in English and Spanish, the zine focuses on how surveillance tools known as automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) undermine sanctuary protections in her home city of Portland, Oregon.
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Surveillance At Your Front Door
Producer Ahmed Ashour explores the relationship between immigrants and consumer home surveillance devices like Ring cameras. Do immigrants feel that these technologies keep them safe? And how have attitudes towards these devices changed in recent years?
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The Dealmakers of Our Data
Our investigation uncovers how people’s private information is being used to broker business deals and circumvent formal processes. Who stands to benefit from all this exchange of data? And who’s paying the price?
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No Privacy in Private: Immigrant Domestic Workers Are Being Recorded On the Job
Domestic workers like nannies, house cleaners, and caregivers are increasingly being surveilled by their employers. How are immigrant workers particularly vulnerable to these surveillance technologies, and what are domestic workers doing to protect themselves?
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In Montana, A New Data Privacy Law Aims to Protect Everyone — Regardless of Status
Immigrants and January 6th insurrectionists may not appear to share much in common — except what they stand to gain from a new data privacy law in Montana. What protections does this law create, and can other states build upon them?
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Surveilled and Sold: Privacy and Sanctuary in Portland
How effective are Portland’s sanctuary city policies when ICE can access surveillance data to track immigrant communities? What can the city do to protect the privacy of its residents?
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The People Who Show Up: Inside a Community’s Effort to Respond to ICE Raids
What does it take to mobilize when ICE arrives? This story follows Proyecto Pastoral, an organization running one of L.A.’s rapid response networks in Boyle Heights, as volunteers learn how to respond to and confront the emotional toll of immigration enforcement. At the heart of it: a community trying to care for families — and for one another.
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Fighting for the Future of Flatbush’s African Burial Ground
The largest known colonial burial ground for people of African descent in the United States — both free and enslaved — is in New York City. That burial ground in Lower Manhattan is a national park and monument that commemorates the forgotten and brutal history of slavery in New York City. But it’s far from the only site of this complex past.
Producer Leina Gabra takes us to Flatbush, Brooklyn in New York, where a group of community activists are uncovering the history that laid below a corner of their neighborhood.
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Good Intentions are Just the Start
Fi2W Editing Fellow Lushik Lotus-Lee reflects on the intentions and challenges of creating an equitable and transparent pay model for the team working on The Hustle.
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