Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Houston Bureau Chief

Molly Hennessy-Fiske has been a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times since 2006. She won a 2018 APME International Perspective Award; 2015 Overseas Press Club award; 2014 Dart award from Columbia University; and was a finalist for the Livingston Awards and Casey Medal. She completed a Thomson Reuters fellowship in Lebanon in 2006 and a Pew fellowship in Mexico in 2004. Hennessy-Fiske grew up in Upstate New York and graduated from Harvard College. She spent a year as Middle East bureau chief before returning to cover foreign/national news as Houston bureau chief.

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Medical screenings are the latest U.S. tactic to discourage asylum seekers, advocates say

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Medical screenings are the latest U.S. tactic to discourage asylum seekers, advocates say

Migrants who are sick, or have sick children, have had their U.S. immigration hearings postponed for months

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U.S. officials deny access to doctors seeking to give flu shots to migrant children
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The new family separation: Migrant parents stranded on border send kids across alone

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The new family separation: Migrant parents stranded on border send kids across alone

More than 100 have showed up at the border alone after being sent back under the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico program.
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U.S. customs officer loses job and citizenship case over his Mexican birth certificate

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U.S. customs officer loses job and citizenship case over his Mexican birth certificate

Raul Rodriguez, an 18-year officer and Navy veteran, didn’t know he was born in Mexico until internal investigators confronted him last year with his birth certificate.
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New acting Homeland Security head insists Trump’s border wall will be built

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New acting Homeland Security head insists Trump’s border wall will be built

New Homeland Security chief vows to finish 500 miles of Trump’s border wall by 2020 deadline
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After child deaths, doctors pressure Border Patrol to let them administer flu vaccines

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After child deaths, doctors pressure Border Patrol to let them administer flu vaccines

After three youths died of the flu last year, doctors want to give free vaccinations to migrants — but Border Patrol has so far refused.
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For transgender migrants fleeing death threats, asylum in the U.S. is a crapshoot

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For transgender migrants fleeing death threats, asylum in the U.S. is a crapshoot

LGBTQ migrants face extortion, death threats and assault after they’re sent south of the border
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Identical twins. Identical asylum claims. Very different luck at the border

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Identical twins. Identical asylum claims. Very different luck at the border

The system gives enormous power to U.S. customs officers, Border Patrol agents and asylum officers, whose whims and judgment calls decide the fate of many migrants.
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Homeland Security acting head Kevin McAleenan resigns, leaving department at war with itself

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Homeland Security acting head Kevin McAleenan resigns, leaving department at war with itself

Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, is the latest in the White House’s long purge of top officials from the U.S. government’s third-largest department.
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‘There’s no asylum for anyone.’ LGBTQ, disabled asylum seekers cross border with Julián Castro, but not for long

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‘There’s no asylum for anyone.’ LGBTQ, disabled asylum seekers cross border with Julián Castro, but not for long

Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro escorts LGBTQ and disabled asylum seekers across the border bridge to Texas and calls on President Trump to end the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy.
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Mexican asylum seekers at multiple border crossings grow frustrated with waiting

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Mexican asylum seekers at multiple border crossings grow frustrated with waiting

Mexican migrants seeking asylum in the United States are finding they may have to wait from days to months for processing in about half a dozen border cities.