The Atlantic’s workers author Nick Miroff is the recipient of the 2025 George Polk Award for immigration reporting for his protection of the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Miroff broke the story in March 2025 that the Trump administration had erroneously deported Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran jail regardless of his protected immigration standing, and reported on developments earlier than and after Abrego Garcia’s return to america.
At The Atlantic, Miroff has reported extensively on immigration and President Trump’s mass-deportation marketing campaign, together with breaking the information final month that Greg Bovino was ousted from his place as Border Patrol “commander at massive”; chronicling battles raging contained in the Division of Homeland Safety; reporting on ICE’s standing following its withdrawal from Minneapolis; revealing that greater than a 3rd of ICE recruits on the company’s coaching academy in Georgia failed the ICE personal-fitness check; and co-reporting a profile of Stephen Miller, detailing how Miller acts as an accelerant for the president’s most incendiary impulses and shapes the lives of particular person Individuals in practically each realm.
The George Polk Awards have been established in 1949 to commemorate George Polk, a CBS correspondent murdered in 1948 whereas overlaying the Greek civil conflict. The awards place a premium on investigative and enterprising reporting that positive aspects consideration and achieves outcomes, and honor particular achievement in print, on-line, or broadcast journalism. An announcement is under from The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg:
Expensive everybody,
Massive information this morning: Nick Miroff has been named the winner of the 2025 George Polk Award for immigration reporting. This recognition is vastly deserved, as a result of Nick has owned this beat like no different reporter. Working along with his fantastic editor, Jenna Johnson, Nick has not solely delivered scoop after scoop, however he has contextualized, deepened, and—this one is especially necessary—sophisticated our understanding of America’s present immigration disaster. Although he’s profitable this award largely for breaking the information of the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (and for his persevering with protection of that case), Nick’s tales on the inner workings of ICE and different authorities bureaucracies deserve equal reward.
Nick solely joined us final yr, however he has made himself fully integral to The Atlantic’s reporting. As you all know, he additionally broke the story that Greg Bovino was ousted from his place because the Border Patrol’s “commander at massive”; he lined the battles raging inside DHS; he revealed that greater than a 3rd of ICE recruits on the company’s coaching academy in Georgia failed the ICE personal-fitness check; and he co-reported our current wonderful profile of Stephen Miller.
The Polk Awards are amongst journalism’s most prestigious, and I’m so happy to see Nick—and Jenna, and the entire crew—obtain this excellent recognition.
Finest needs,
Jeff
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