Erin Patrick O'Connor

Tucson, Ariz.

Immigration, environment, wildfires and Arizona sunsets

Education: Arizona State University, BA

Erin Patrick O’Connor is a senior video reporter covering immigration enforcement and the southwest. He is two-time Pulitzer finalist and an Alfred I. duPont award winning video reporter on staff at The Washington Post. He is based in Tucson, Ariz.
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Latest from Erin Patrick O'Connor

    Immigrants caught in Mexico's 'Merry-Go-Round'

    The Mexican Government is routinely bussing immigrants to their southern states before they can reach the U.S. border.

    September 14, 2024

      Southern California ski hill survives destructive fire

      The Bridge Fire erupted nearly a week ago and quickly charred over 50,000 acres, including Mountain High, a popular ski hill in Wrightwood, Calif.

      September 13, 2024

        Bridge fire burns through California ski hill

        The Bridge Fire erupted nearly a week ago and quickly charred over 50,000 acres, including Mountain High, a popular ski hill in Wrightwood, Calif.

        September 12, 2024

        In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat

        The relentless and record heat is testing the will of Phoenix residents.

        September 3, 2024

        Trump event at wall Bush built highlights an unkept promise

        The Republican presidential nominee heaped praise on a section of barrier that was actually built by one of his predecessors.

        August 25, 2024

          Arizonans are tired of campaign stops at the border wall

          Arizona rancher John Ladd and Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway are tired of border wall campaign stops.

          August 24, 2024

            Arizonans are tired of campaign stops at the border wall

            The border wall has been a go-to campaign stop for both parties, but Arizonans who have seen decades of inconsistent border policy and have had enough.

            August 23, 2024

            As repression in Nicaragua deepened, one bank kept the money flowing

            How foreign development loans helped the Ortega regime build a brutal police state in Nicaragua.

            August 22, 2024
            Police and protesters clash in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, on April 20, 2018, following pension cuts and an increase in taxation.

              Historic wave of Chinese migrants crossing U.S. border

              Post reporters Cate Cadell and Nick Miroff followed the path of the more than 55,000 Chinese migrants coming into the United States via the southern border.

              July 29, 2024

                ‘Lucky to be alive’: Risking everything to flee China

                Lei Xiaoyue and his family fled economic turmoil in April and came to the United States as part of a historic wave of migration from China.

                July 27, 2024