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Cindy Carcamo

  • 2026 Nieman Journalism Fellow, Harvard University
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West Coast Bureau Chief at The Christian Science Monitor. Former @latimes staff writer. Also: bsky.app/profile/cindycarcamo.bsky.social

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Cindy Carcamo’s Biography

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Cindy Carcamo is Arizona Bureau Chief and a National Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times where she covers the Southwest, focusing on border and immigration issues. Carcamo is a recipient of the French American Foundation's 2012 Immigration Journalism Award for her Slake magazine narrative about the first 48 hours of a deportee’s life after his return to Guatemala on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight from the United States. She was a fellow for ICFJ's 2012 "Bringing Home the Worl…

Cindy Carcamo’s Journalist Portfolio

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Immigrants lacking papers work legally - as their own bosses

Immigrants lacking papers work legally - as their own bosses

PHOENIX - At just 20 years of age, Carla Chavarria sits at the helm of a thriving graphic design business, la…

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Arizona couple near border have complex view of illegal immigration

Arizona couple near border have complex view of illegal immigration

Longtime rancher Jim Chilton and his wife, Sue, support reforms but also a secure border - to keep migrants f…

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Residents in Arizona town feel 'invaded by Border Patrol'

Residents in Arizona town feel 'invaded by Border Patrol'

Many locals in and around Bisbee say agents and new security infrastructure have created a military-like occu…

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Hauling off the dead horses that couldn't outrun Oklahoma tornado

Hauling off the dead horses that couldn't outrun Oklahoma tornado

When a tornado rages across the plains of Oklahoma, the immediate focus is on people, pets and property. Larg…

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The New Frontier: The Pacific Ocean is the latest frontier in human smuggling

The New Frontier: The Pacific Ocean is the latest frontier in human smuggling

The New Frontier: As federal officials hardened the land border between the United States and Mexico, cutti…

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Return to Sender

Return to Sender

In-depth, narrative story about the first 48 hours of a deportee’s life after his return to Guatemala on an I…

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Articles

Maine town where immigrants felt secure shaken by ICE killing

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By Cindy Carcamo
| The Christian Science Monitor Verified
Gil Corral knows what it’s like to live in a militarized region patrolled by immigration agents. The artist was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, a bustling, desert metropolis on the U.S.-Mexico border with deep-rooted Latino culture. Mr. Corral’s home for the past 20 years in Biddeford, a slow-paced city along Maine’s southern coast, is a departure – and more than 2,500 miles – from the border. “You stick out, being Latino,” he says of the town that is more than 90% white.
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Immigration raids, arrests disrupt businesses and immigrant families

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By Cindy Carcamo, Dianne Solis Verified, Alfredo Corchado
| El Paso Times Verified
Cindy Carcamo, Dianne Solis, and Alfredo Corchado Puente News Collaborative Editor’s note: This story was co-published by the El Paso Times and Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener, and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. SANTA ANA, Calif. — At Hector’s Mariscos restaurant in this heavily Latino and immigrant city, sales of Mexican seafood have slid.
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Immigration raids, arrests disrupt businesses and immigrant families

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By Cindy Carcamo, Dianne Solis Verified, Alfredo Corchado
| The Big Bend Sentinel Verified
“I’m scared to death to leave my house.” SANTA ANA, Calif. — At Hector’s Mariscos restaurant in this heavily Latino and immigrant city, sales of Mexican seafood have slid. Seven tables would normally be full, but diners sit at only two this Tuesday afternoon. “I haven’t seen it like this since COVID,” manager Lorena Marin said in Spanish as cumbia music played on loudspeakers. A U.S. citizen, Marin even texted customers she was friendly with, encouraging them to come in.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Cops & Courts reporter at the Fresno Bee

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Know what I cover before you e-mail me, please.

Awards

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French-American Foundation's Immigration Journalism Award

2012 - Immigration Journalism Award

The French-American Foundation’s Immigration Journalism Award is the first award to specifically honor excellence in the coverage of immigration and integration issues worldwide. Cindy Carcamo for her article “Return to Sender” that focuses on the first 48 hours of a deportee’s life after his return to Guatemala on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight from the United States. The article was published in the magazine Slake: Los Angeles. You can access and read the article on the website of Slake Los Angeles.

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Orange County Press Club 1st place/Best Public Affairs Reporting

2013 - Best Public Affairs or Education Reporting or Series

Cindy Carcamo, The Orange County Register “The New Frontier: For Illegal immigrants, ocean is the new desert” http://www.ocregister.com/articles/frontier-371523-new-.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/san-371399-people-smuggling.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/san-371399-people-smuggling.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marbilia-371405-leonel-border.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/rosa-371340-father-boat.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lucio-371341-work-boat.html http://www.ocregister.com/news/islands-372214-mexican-navy.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/smuggling-373022-people-sea.html

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Orange County Press Club

2012 - Best Public Affairs or Education Reporting or Series

Best Public Affairs or Education story or series FIRST PLACE Cindy Carcamo, The Orange County Register, “A Tale of Two Cities” series TWO CITIES Part 1: Immigration shift drains Santa Ana Legal and illegal immigrants leaving for Mexico spark changes to Orange County's second-largest city. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mexico-326587-santa-family.html Immigrants' return to Mexico alters Santa Ana O.C. family returns to a violence-plagued Mexico http://www.ocregister.com/news/family-326589-grace-berenice.html Part 2: Dreams die in wake of deportation In the Mexican village of Santa Barbara, hope shrinks and dreams shatter each day. Mexican village serves as purgatory for the deported http://www.ocregister.com/news/santa-327612-barbara-return.html

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