Cindy Carcamo, the immigration reporter at The Orange County Register, will explore how the Pacific Ocean has become the latest route for human smuggling into the United States from Mexico. Carcamo’s most recent pieces include a project about deported U.S. veterans and a three-part series for The Orange County Register about shifting immigration patterns between Mexico and the United States. The assignment required her to travel to Guerrero, Mexico and was funded by a grant from the Rosenberg Foundation and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She also contributes to Slake LA magazine where she wrote about the first 48 hours of a deportee’s life after his return to Guatemala on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight from the United States. Carcamo also reported as a correspondent in Argentina and Mexico during her time as an Inter American Press Association scholar. You can follow her on Twitter @thecindycarcamo.