Mike Hixenbaugh

Senior Investigative Reporter

I'm a senior reporter on the NBC News Enterprise team, covering a wide range of subjects. My work, at its best, uncovers wrongdoing or injustice, but I’m also interested in pursuing intimate, deeply reported stories about people and communities that help readers better understand their neighbors, themselves and the country they live in.

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I'm a senior reporter on the NBC News Enterprise team, covering a wide range of subjects. My work, at its best, uncovers wrongdoing or injustice, but I’m also interested in pursuing intimate, deeply reported stories about people and communities that help readers better understand their neighbors, themselves and the country they live in.

Do you have a news tip you want to share with our journalists? Visit NBC News Tips to learn more.


Latest from Mike Hixenbaugh

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Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention

Like many Americans, Ms. Rachel said she first became aware of the family detention center in Dilley, Texas, after federal immigration agents detained a 5-year-old in Minneapolis.
11d ago

'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit

ICE is not supposed to detain children for longer than 20 days under a decades-old court settlement. The Trump administration has routinely violated that limit.
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Noem doesn't retract calling U.S. citizens killed by immigration agents 'domestic terrorists' in tense hearing

This was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's first appearance before Congress since immigration agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
25d ago

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center

EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.
32d ago

Russian family who complained of mistreatment in ICE facility is released after 4 months

The family’s lawyer had sought their release from the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas on medical grounds. They were freed days after NBC News brought attention to their case.
38d ago

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention

A Russian family sought asylum in the United States. In the Dilley ICE detention center in Texas, they say their children endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medication.
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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says

A federal lawsuit says an 18-month-old baby became critically ill in a South Texas immigration detention center, was hospitalized with respiratory failure, then sent back to detention without needed medication.
45d ago

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school

Families and lawyers describe the Dilley, Texas, immigration center as a place where kids are served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Democratic victory in deep-red Texas district casts a pall over GOP plans to keep the House

DALLAS — Democrat Taylor Rehmet may never get the chance to cast a vote from his new seat in the Texas state Senate.
60d ago

A tiny Danish American town loyal to Trump is baffled by his threats to take Greenland

In Elk Horn, Iowa, residents watched with concern as President Donald Trump fixated on Greenland and disparaged Denmark, one of America’s oldest and closest allies.

‘We’re not those little girls anymore’: Women who accused pastor of abuse see him in court

Nearly a month after Joe Campbell was arrested on charges that he sexually abused two girls decades ago, he appeared in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, courtroom. His accusers attended, too.