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Jeremy Redmon

Reporter

Jeremy Redmon's newspaper reporting career spans nearly two decades. He now covers immigration and politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Redmon embedded with U.S. soldiers and Marines during three tours in Iraq and has covered state legislatures and gubernatorial elections in Virginia, Maryland and Georgia. He also reported on the 2012 presidential race across five states.

Redmon graduated from George Mason University in 1994 and 1997 with undergraduate and graduate degrees in English. In 2013, he completed a fellowship with The New York Times Institute on Immigration Reporting at the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2012, he completed fellowships at the Institute for Justice and Journalism on Immigration Reporting at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the Journalist Law School at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Latest from Jeremy Redmon

Georgia congressmen forgo pay

Most Georgia congressmen are declining their pay or planning to donate it to charity amid the federal government shutdown. Republican U.S. Reps. Paul Broun of Athens, Phil Gingrey of Marietta, Jack Kingston of Savannah, Austin Scott of Tifton, and Rob Woodall of Lawrenceville are refusing compensation while the government is ...

Government shutdown halts aid for refugees

The federal government shutdown has halted cash assistance and medical aid for refugees resettled in Georgia. Refugees are permitted to use the federal cash aid for food, clothing, shelter, transportation and any other expenses until they become employed or otherwise self-sufficient, according to the Georgia Department of Human Services. A ...

Ga. congressmen forgo pay amid shutdown

Most Georgia congressmen are declining their pay or planning to donate it to charity amid the federal government shutdown. Republican U.S. Reps. Paul Broun of Athens, Phil Gingrey of Marietta, Jack Kingston of Savannah, Austin Scott of Tifton, and Rob Woodall of Lawrenceville are refusing compensation while the government is ...

Government shutdown takes E-Verify offline

The E-Verify work authorization program went dark Monday, becoming another casualty of the federal government shutdown.While it is offline, employers won’t be able to enroll in the free online program or use it to verify whether newly hired employees are eligible to work in the U.S.This development is particularly problematic ...

Report: After recessionary dip, illegal immigration may be on the rise in U.S.

The steep drop in the number of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. that accompanied the Great Recession has halted and their numbers may be rising again, a new report says. Using census records and other data, the Pew Research Center estimates the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. ...

Report: Illegal immigrants may be on the rise in U.S.

The sharp drop in the number of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. that accompanied the Great Recession has stopped and their numbers may be rising again, a new report says. The Pew Research Center has estimated the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. grew by nearly 2 percent ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents stand on top of their vehicles and look into Mexico west of Douglas, Ariz., after a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed on Tuesday Oct. 2, 2012. One agent was killed and another wounded in the incident.

Poll in Georgia finds conditional support for immigration plan

More than half of Georgians would support a program giving illegal immigrants the right to live here legally, if they pay a fine and meet other requirements, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll shows. Of the 801 Georgian adults surveyed by telephone this month, 54 percent said they would support such a ...

More noncitizens avoiding deportation

Federal immigration judges are on track to let 89,383 immigrants facing deportation remain — at least temporarily — in the U.S. this fiscal year, the highest number in at least the past 16 years, according to a report released this week. The report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse — ...

More noncitizens avoiding deportation

Federal immigration judges are on track to let 89,383 immigrants facing deportation remain — at least temporarily — in the U.S. this fiscal year, the highest number in at least the last 16 years, according to a new report released this week. The report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse ...

090813 Atlanta: - Deacon Gerald Zukauckas speaks to the congregation on the nation’s immigration system during church services at Cathedral of Christ the King on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, in Atlanta. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM

Georgia Catholics call for immigration overhaul

Many Catholics in Georgia and across the country are calling for a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws as Congress is preparing to return to a full agenda in Washington this week. Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory and other top Catholic officials are lobbying congress members in support of a ...