In The Media

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement detains one Marin resident, the ripple effects can impact an entire community. Other immigrants become fearful of leaving their homes or reporting to required ICE check-ins. A person who is held in an ICE detention center or deported may have been the sole financial provider for their family, leaving relatives without rent or grocery money.

In this in-depth report on a sharp uptick in ICE activity across Marin County, Lina explains a pattern she has been watching across the Bay Area: most of the people taken into custody have no criminal record, and many are picked up at routine ICE check-in appointments — the very appointments they are legally required to attend. She also discusses how staffing changes at the San Francisco Immigration Court have deepened an already serious backlog and pushed asylum denial rates to historic highs.

Lina joined CBS News alongside correspondent Carter Evans to break down the legal context behind a high-profile ICE enforcement operation at a California farm, where agents were met by community protesters. She spoke to what the law actually allows, what it doesn’t, and what foreign workers and their families need to understand about their rights when ICE shows up at a workplace.

Speaking with Forbes Newsroom, Lina cuts through the political messaging around current ICE enforcement and explains why every foreign person in the United States — regardless of status, regardless of how long they’ve been here, regardless of whether they’ve ever had any contact with the legal system — has reason to pay attention. She walks through what ICE is actually doing on the ground, what people’s rights are, and what families can do to prepare.

After President Trump publicly raised the idea of stripping naturalized Americans of their U.S. citizenship, Lina returned to Forbes Newsroom to explain what denaturalization actually involves under federal law. She breaks down why the process is far narrower, slower, and more legally constrained than political rhetoric suggests — and what naturalized citizens should and shouldn’t be worried about.

Lina returns to Forbes Newsroom to address President Trump’s call to “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility.” Drawing on decades of Supreme Court precedent, she explains why the standard for stripping someone of citizenship is intentionally extraordinarily high — and why proposals to use denaturalization as a tool of political enforcement run directly into the Constitution.

When President Joe Biden rescinded former President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrant visas from many majority-Muslim countries on his very first day in office, those eagerly waiting the change were elated.