Uriel J. García is an immigration reporter with the Texas Tribune on the U.S.-Mexico border. For the past decade, he has covered criminal justice issues, immigration enforcement, and immigrant communities throughout the Southwest, including Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. 

Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, he was raised in Phoenix. He is an Indigenous member of the Purépecha tribe and Mexican immigrant who has used his experience to help inform him to tell rich and nuanced stories about people confronted by the criminal justice system and the bureaucratic and unforgiving immigration system.

He lives in El Paso with his wife and pitbull.