Miriam Jordan

Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent for The New York Times, reporting on the complexities and paradoxes of immigration policies and their impact on immigrants as well as American society, demographics and the economy. Her coverage takes her frequently to the U.S.-Mexico border, to places like Northwest Arkansas, where Indian computer programmers develop software for Walmart; the fields of California, Florida and Georgia, where undocumented farmworkers toil; and Louisville, Ky., home to the country's fastest-growing Cuban community. She has reported on various aspects of immigration including the changing composition of the migrant population, the broken asylum system, refugee resettlement and DACA (the program that offers deportation protection and work permits to hundreds of thousands of undocumented young adults). Before joining The Times in 2017, she worked at Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. She has been a correspondent in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, focusing on poverty, public health, and gender issues. Miriam earned an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University. She speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Hebrew. Born in Brooklyn and having lived in different parts of the country as well as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro where she finished high school, she strives to understand issues deeply, reports impartially and does not participate in politics or make political donations. You can learn more about The Times’ ethics policy here. Please feel free to contact her with tips and story ideas.