About the author
Sarah Betancourt covers immigration, public policy, business and breaking news for outlets like The Guardian, ThinkProgess, The Daily Beast, Longreads, Columbia Journalism Review, Paste Magazine, Bay State Banner, NBC Latino, Worcester Business Journal, The Crime Report, and NPR's Latino USA. She has supported ProPublica's investigative teams as a researcher for bankruptcy, immigration and insurance stories, and she was part of the NPR-ProPublica collaboration that won the 2017 IRE Award
for Radio/Audio-Large Category for “They Got Hurt at Work, Then They Got Deported."