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Former Staff

Mia Steinle

Senior Fact Checker

Areas of Expertise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection

Mia Steinle investigates issues related to the U.S. immigrant detention system. Her previous investigations at POGO uncovered wasteful spending at defense facilities, safety risks at nuclear labs, and legal loopholes that allowed coal companies to cheat U.S. taxpayers out of billions of dollars in potential revenue. She also previously participated in the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which helped to establish greater revenue transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining industries.

Before joining POGO, Mia was a researcher at the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Her writing has appeared in media outlets including Columbia Journalism Review, Huffington Post, and POLITICO, and she has been quoted as an expert in media outlets including Buzzfeed, Mother Jones, and The Nation. She graduated from American University with a B.A. in Journalism.

Latest Work

  • Interior Department Says Laws Prevent Greater Transparency…but They’re Wrong

    analysis | November 3, 2017

  • ICE Puts Detainees with Mental Illnesses “At Risk” in Solitary Confinement

    analysis | October 4, 2017

  • Slave Labor Widespread at ICE Detention Centers, Lawyers Say

    investigation | September 7, 2017

  • ICE’s Private Detention Centers Keep Data Under Lock and Key

    analysis | May 3, 2017

  • What’s the Best Way to Secure the Border?

    analysis | April 12, 2017

  • Senators Question Administration’s Reversal on Phasing out Private Prisons

    analysis | April 5, 2017

  • Fossil Fuels Dodge the Law: What We’ve Done About it and What We Must Do

    analysis | October 14, 2016

  • Transparency Efforts Expand in Public Natural Resource Management

    analysis | October 12, 2016

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In The News

  • Durbin, Booker, Harris Introduce New Legislation To Combat Overuse Of Solitary Confinement In Immigration Detention

    November 14, 2019

  • New Senate Bill Would Curtail ICE's "Unnecessary Overuse of Solitary Confinement"

    November 14, 2019

  • ICE Detainee at Troubled For-Profit Jail Dies in Apparent Suicide

    October 17, 2019

  • A Trans Woman's Harrowing Journey Through the Asylum Process

    September 25, 2019

  • NYC Activists Protest Microsoft for Collaborating with ICE

    September 16, 2019

  • Confidential DHS Report Found ICE Kept 'Alarming' Number of Mentally Ill Detainees in Solitary Confinement

    September 13, 2019

  • When Detained Immigrants Are Punished With Solitary Confinement

    September 06, 2019

  • Surviving migrant shelters, US detention with a mental illness

    September 05, 2019

  • How Solitary Confinement Kills: Torture and Stunning Neglect Ends in Suicide at Privately Run ICE Prison

    August 29, 2019

  • The other problem with ICE detention: Solitary confinement

    August 28, 2019

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