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Jacob Soboroff

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MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent. Author of Firestorm (2026) and Separated (2020). Executive Producer of Separated, a film by Errol Morris.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jun 2

I’m writing a book about the devastating 2025 L.A. fires, which I covered in real time as I watched my childhood neighborhood burn to the ground. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster will be released January 6, 2026. www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"It is truly sickening to speak to somebody who raised three boys to go into the Marines because of how much he loved and believed in this country, only to be treated like that."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social discusses Narciso Barranco, ICE, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Pod

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"Her mother died suddenly. And so Nori, 18 years old, was in a country that she didn't know, without the family that she grew up with, with basically no place to go and nothing to do."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks the reality of Trump's immigration policy with @timmiller.bsky.social:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

more from the protest

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

full interview: youtu.be/7yXlxO1wk2I?...

Pritzker to Trump: 'Come and get me!'

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 4d

Gov. JB Pritzker advises Chicagoans to knows their rights and to film everything after President Trump deployed the Federal Guard to the city.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

here’s a GoFundMe set up by Samantha for her mom, who remains in ICE detention: gofund.me/a3149b169

Donate to Help Bring Maricela Home, organized by Rosa Rojas

As you all may know the Cicero/Berwyn area has been filled with ICE agents. Well my mom, Maricela … Rosa Rojas needs your support for Help Bring Maricela Home

gofund.me

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 4d

“If you come for my people, you come for me. So come and get me.”
IL Gov. JB Pritzker talks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social about Pres. Trump's call for the governor to be jailed

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4d

I met Samantha after Trump’s agents took her mom off the street yesterday, which she confirmed by watching video we showed her.

“She looks ready to cry… she wanted to go to the store. She wanted to make some albondigas which is basically a meatball stew” youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4d

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4d

two men were taken at a bakery by armed and masked federal agents in Cicero, Illinois this morning while having coffee before work. we were there moments later. Trump says they’re going after the “worst of the worst” around Chicago. that’s not what we saw. youtu.be/EkCcsaFdpsw?...

Jacob Soboroff speaks to people in Chicago suburb after ICE arrests 2 men at bakery

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5d

I’m in Chicago where Trump continues his push for the largest mass deportation campaign in American history and to send federal troops to U.S. cities — and local leaders and civilians continue to push back.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 21d

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE by @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social:
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 26d

To hear more from Nory, her cousin, teacher and late mom, watch this longform report we just posted to YouTube. It includes new details and video from Guatemala in the wake of Estela's death. youtu.be/OCyNQsNxTJc?...

Vanished on the Fourth: The Story of Nory Sontay Ramos and Estela Ramos Baten

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 26d

Two weeks before she died, when we visited her in Guatemala, Estela told me "I feel at ease seeing Nory go to school... but here, we can't go out."

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 26d

The money they had been saving to hire a lawyer to appeal their deportation case will now, Nory told us, go toward the burial. Her teacher, Darcy White, has set up a GoFundMe to help Nory: www.gofundme.com/f/plz-help-n...

Donate to Plz help Nory Sontay Ramos navigate life now, without mom., organized by Darcy White

ENGLISH/SPANISH I'm one of Nory's former teachers and have bee… Darcy White needs your support for Plz help Nory Sontay Ramos navigate life now, without mom.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 26d

NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

The death of Estela Ramos Baten

Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela were deported after a routine check-in. Two months later, Estela was buried with Guatemalan and U.S. flags draped over her coffin.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Sep 4

yes! details soon.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Sep 3

"It's not my home."

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Sep 2

Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...

The disappearance of Nory Sontay Ramos

Nory and her mother were following the rules. But as MSNBC reports from L.A. and Guatemala, U.S. officials deported them anyway — throwing their futures into jeopardy.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Aug 20

an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.

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