At Issue: Immigration. President Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda: Its Consequences and Implications featuring Dara Lind and Julia Preston

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Hill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series, At Issue in 2025. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today.

Dara Lind is a Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council, where she works to help the public better understand immigration policy with written resources, public engagement, and guidance of colleagues’ efforts to ensure the Council’s experts have the greatest possible impact. Before joining the Council, she was one of the most trusted and respected immigration reporters in the country, first at Vox (where she also co-hosted the policy podcast The Weeds) and then at ProPublica. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the American Prospect, Democracy, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Vanity Fair.

Julia Preston is a journalist focusing on immigration. From 2017 through 2024, she was a Contributing Writer at The Marshall Project, a non-profit journalism organization reporting on criminal justice and immigration. Before joining The Marshall Project, she worked for 21 years at The New York Times. She was the national correspondent covering immigration from 2006 through 2016, and a foreign correspondent in Mexico from 1995 through 2001, among other assignments. She is a 2020 winner of an Online Journalism Award for Explanatory Reporting, for a Marshall Project series on myths about immigration and crime. She won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on international affairs, for a series by four New York Times reporters on drug corruption in Mexico. She was awarded the 1997 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for distinguished coverage of Latin America. She is the author, with Samuel Dillon, of Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy, 2004, which recounts Mexico’s transformation from an authoritarian state into a struggling democracy. She is currently working on a book and audio project telling the story of the movement of young undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, and the resistance they pioneered in an earlier period of mass deportations.