Renée Feltz

Renée Feltz is an award-winning investigative journalist who covers immigration and criminal justice. She was a longtime senior producer for Democracy Now! and has also reported for the New York Times, The Guardian, Mother Jones, PBS Need to Know, Rewire, The Nation, the Texas Observer, The Indypendent, and elsewhere.

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Hector Menjivar outside of the car dealership he works at in Houston, Texas on Feb. 27, 2018.

Amid Rampant Wage Theft in Post-Harvey Reconstruction, Immigrant Workers Take on Disaster Recovery Giant — and Win

Renée Feltz

- Mar. 16, 2018

Day laborers working to rebuild Houston bypassed a web of subcontractors and exerted pressure at the top of the chain to recover their unpaid wages.

A construction crew cleans out the home of Kenny Licona, which was flooded out from Tropical Storm Harvey on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Spring, Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Immigrant Day Laborers Confront a Perfect Storm of Exploitation in Hurricane Harvey Cleanup

Renée Feltz

- Nov. 13, 2017

Texas leads the nation in construction industry deaths, and labor organizations in Houston say they’ve seen a spike in wage theft since the hurricane.

The War on Immigrants

Texas Police Say “Show Me Your Papers” Law Is Damaging Public Safety — Before Even Taking Effect

Renée Feltz

- Aug. 3, 2017

Thanks to SB4, which lets police check the immigration status of anyone they detain, residents are “afraid to call us or be witnesses to crimes,” a Houston officer says.

Renée Feltz

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Amid Rampant Wage Theft in Post-Harvey Reconstruction, Immigrant Workers Take on Disaster Recovery Giant — and Win

Immigrant Day Laborers Confront a Perfect Storm of Exploitation in Hurricane Harvey Cleanup

Texas Police Say “Show Me Your Papers” Law Is Damaging Public Safety — Before Even Taking Effect

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Amid Rampant Wage Theft in Post-Harvey Reconstruction, Immigrant Workers Take on Disaster Recovery Giant — and Win

Immigrant Day Laborers Confront a Perfect Storm of Exploitation in Hurricane Harvey Cleanup

Texas Police Say “Show Me Your Papers” Law Is Damaging Public Safety — Before Even Taking Effect

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