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Hannah Dreier

The Last Days Inside Trailer 83

A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2021 30min Permalink

Arts Science

“Assistance Not Approved”

Her home still wrecked months after a freak storm, an Iowa woman’s FEMA ordeal presages the turmoil ahead as climate disasters worsen.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Apr 2021 20min Permalink

World Health

To Stay or To Go?

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Health

What to Do About Ahav?

A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink

Crime Health

The Worst-Case Scenario

Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Jul 2020 20min Permalink

Health

Tatiana’s Luck

Tatiana Angulo came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Jun 2020 15min Permalink

Politics

Trust and Consequences

The government required him to see a therapist. He thought his words would be confidential. Now, the traumatized migrant may be deported.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Best Article Politics

He Drew His School Mascot—and ICE Labeled Him a Gang Member

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

Hannah Dreier ProPublica Dec 2018 45min Permalink

Crime

The Disappeared

Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better—and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.

Hannah Dreier ProPublica Sep 2018 35min Permalink

Crime

A Betrayal

The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.

Hannah Dreier ProPublica Apr 2018 30min Permalink