
Melissa Montalvo
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@FresnoBee accountability/enterprise reporter. @FresnoBeeGuild member. Retweets ≠ endorsement. Find me under a Bluer Sky
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NEWS: Stephen Miller owns a six-figure stock in Palantir, a company profiting off deportations, per Project On Government Oversight report migrantinsider.com/p/stephen-mill…

MY LATEST Los Angeles Times COLUMNA: 'We're all just a bunch of Josés': Vance's dig at Padilla is a new low. RT, porfas! latimes.com/california/sto…

Fresno Unified’s academic performance has led some to speculate whether the district’s tendencies to promote underachieving students to the next grade level harms or helps them. The answer is complicated. Leqi Zhong Fresno Bee fresnobee.com/news/local/edu…


More than 1,600 immigrants detained in Southern California this month, DHS says —Andrea Castillo latimes.com/politics/story…

NEW: Vast majority of immigrants nabbed by ICE on streets of Los Angeles were men with no criminal records. Great reporting by Rachel Uranga in Los Angeles Times. latimes.com/california/sto…







Thank you The Washington Post “Once it was mostly a taco website. Now it's covering L.A. ICE raids. L.A. Taco has become a formidable media outlet amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the resulting protests.” washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

I wrote about how community support in Vermont has helped free three detained farmworkers “The speed and efficacy of the response is due to the groundwork that we’ve been laying now for over a decade,” -Rachel Elliott of Migrant Justice sentientmedia.org/vermont-reside…


Most avocados sold in the U.S. come from Mexico, where farming methods have serious environmental and human-rights impacts. Yet importers continue to market the fruit as sustainably grown. Read more from Isabella Kaminski ⬇️ buff.ly/twgvgy9

Scoop 🚨 Advocates Say Leaked Farm Industry Lobby Memo Promotes Racist Science In opposition to the Temp Act, the memo claims that Caribbean & Latino immigrants would “feel very comfortable working in New York in the summertime.” New for Documented documentedny.com/2025/07/09/tem…

Our community is fortunate to have Fresno Bee and Edward Simon Cruz produce this kind of cultural reporting. I appreciate that The San Joaquin Valley Bookfest and my view was mentioned in this piece. 📚💛 ☺️ fresnobee.com/news/local/art…