Maria Sacchetti

Washington, D.C.

Reporter covering immigrant communities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Education: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, BA in journalism; University of Texas at Austin, MA in Latin American studies Maria Sacchetti covers immigration for The Washington Post. She previously reported for the Boston Globe, where her reporting led to the release of several immigrants from jail. She investigated the secrecy surrounding the U.S. immigration system and covered the deportation hearings of President Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives. She was a member of the Boston Globe staff that shared in the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Overseas, she covered the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015, the Haiti earthquake in 2010, and traveled to Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador on assignment. She received the 2015 French-American Foundation's Immigration Journalism Award for her article "The Unforgotten," about hundreds, possibly thousands, of immigrants missing along the southern U.S. border. Before the Globe, she investigated the education of Latino schoolchildren for the Orange County Register in California, which led to an initiative to improve their education. She has lived and worked in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica and spent a summer in Colombia. In Puerto Rico, she covered the legislature and multiple hurricanes. In Costa Rica, she covered five hostage situations, including the sieges on the Nicaraguan embassy and the Costa Rica Supreme Court.

Latest from Maria Sacchetti

National

Live updates: Breonna Taylor’s family meets Ky. attorney general, Louisville mayor, urging action on officers

Aug 13, 2020

National

Isaias slams into the Carolinas, killing two and leaving hundreds of thousands without power

The storm is expected to bring flooding, winds and tornadoes up the East Coast.

Aug 4, 2020

National

Carolinas brace for Isaias as states assess how to plan for storms in a pandemic

Some say they will not go to shelters even if ordered because of coronavirus fears.

Aug 3, 2020

National

Death sentence overturned for Boston Marathon bomber

Court says new penalty phase to begin, and that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will remain in prison ‘for the rest of his life.’

Jul 31, 2020

National

‘I’m scared’

Black people - many of them immigrants - make up less than two percent of Maine's population, but account for almost a quarter of its coronavirus cases.

Jul 30, 2020

Immigration

Trump administration to limit DACA work permits as it considers ending program

Work permits will be reduced to one year from two as the White House initiates a legal review required by the Supreme Court.

Jul 28, 2020

National

Federal officials dismiss Portland leaders’ calls to leave city as clashes with protesters continue

Kenneth Cuccinelli, acting homeland security deputy secretary, said the agency had deployed tactical units from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection to help defend federal buildings and officers in the city.

Jul 19, 2020

Politics

At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ in dark speech ahead of Independence Day

Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump campaign aide, tests positive for coronavirus ahead of the event.

Jul 4, 2020

National

Maine’s Vacationland hot spots are ghost towns as tourism struggles amid coronavirus

The famed New England coastline is littered with vacancy signs, and the governor has announced new exemptions so New Yorkers and others can visit more easily.

Jul 2, 2020

National

Mourners recall Rayshard Brooks, say his death ‘much bigger than him’

Services were held in the same sanctuary where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, and was mourned, decades ago

Jun 23, 2020