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Trump had asked Israel to hold off its attack on Iran, @Missy Ryan, @JonLemire, and @isaacstanbecker report. Now he’s scrambling to make a deal in negotiations that have become even more complex. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Videos of feds arresting workers at LA car wash shows Border Patrol agents now working w/ ICE far from Mexico border, in this case providing entire operations team for what appears to be a single ICE officer. Great reporting from @arelisrhdz.bsky.social et al www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Anatomy of a raid: How immigration agents descended on an L.A. car wash wapo.st/44bXON7

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NEW: Culture war, with real troops. What I saw during three days in downtown LA www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I've been in downtown LA since Sunday. Here's what I saw. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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More Waymos set ablaze in downtown LA

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110 freeway in downtown LA

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Downtown Los Angeles right now. This Waymo took a bad turn.

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New: The sudden return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the administration's new trafficking case against him www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW: For Trump, the Boulder attack quickly became a chance to convert an act of anti-Semitic violence into justification for his mass-deportation campaign But Soliman’s arrival to the U.S. and his immigration status is more complicated than Trump says www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW Trump has blamed Biden and "Open Borders" for the Colorado attack, but Mohamed Soliman arrived legally on a visa that was also widely given out to Egyptian nationals during Trump’s first term. With @jonlemire.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW: Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon had been “the golden child” of the Trump administration—until Hegseth’s military briefing for Elon Musk annoyed Donald Trump. The incident marked a turning point for the defense secretary. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Trump administration is spending up to $2.1 million to investigate whether DEI causes plane crashes, @isaacstanbecker reports. Trump may be disappointed with the findings. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Guatemala asylum seeker known in court documents as O.C.G. is back in the United States, "marking the first known instance of the Trump administration returning a deportee in response to a judicial order" @mariasacchetti.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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✈️👀 Another small jet deportation to Africa. Now in Côte d’Ivoire after a stop in Dakar (likely fuel). Before Cote it stopped in Guinea. Follows 2 small jets to Africa last week. See my Monthly Report that will be published later today.

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Trump’s advisers have given up trying to restrict his phone use. His personal cellphone has become, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social write, “the most pivotal technological device in the federal government, directly linking Trump to the outside world.”

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Got to share my ❤️ for “Raising Arizona” and especially the opening sequence, some of the finest 11 mins of American cinema ever made. What are your fave lines?

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Exclusive: The Justice Department is using a little-known law to criminally charge unauthorized immigrants who have failed to register their presence in the country, threatening them with potential jail time and fines.

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Many American adults hesitate to correct strangers’ kids in public—but this wasn’t always so. Stephanie H. Murray argues for bringing back collective child discipline: https://theatln.tc/2RfYiKq5

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Such a great story by @rossandersen.bsky.social—just read it, you will be spellbound

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NEW: In its rushed mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration tends to say things in public that it does not in federal court -- and District Courts are playing a clarifying, crucial role in sorting out what's really true www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Abundance Agenda is an attempt to restore the New Deal era of confidence, effective government. Why do so many progressives oppose it? There's a reason. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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In an effort to attract more conservative faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity, Rose Horowitch writes.

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Immigrant arrests at courthouses signal new tactic in Trump’s push for mass deportations W/new info on the directives behind ICE’s courthouse operations by @arelisrhdz.bsky.social & me www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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In February, the Trump administration deported 299 migrants from all over the world to Panama. Many of them are still there, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes. Panama says they are in transit. Many of the migrants say they have nowhere to go:

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The gay man who appears as O.C.G. in the lawsuit over third-country deportations describes his life in hiding back in Guatemala. Last week the govt improperly disclosed his name and acknowledged submitting false testimony re his due process storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trump's mass deportation campaign hasn't really started yet. But the House bill that advanced last night would pay for one, and more judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...

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Interesting that Elon Musk removed the subtitle from the screenshot he shared of this deeply reported @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social story… (🧵 1/4)

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Elon Musk blew into Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws, ready to destroy bureaucracy. @AshleyRParker @michaelscherer capture how he failed to understand how government works or build alliances -- and is now quietly reducing his hours. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW: Inside the Trump admin's rushed effort to send deportees around the world to any country that will take them, including immigrants granted "withholding of removal" protections such as Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Guatemalan plaintiff O.C.G. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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“Officers were instructed to arrest immigrants who have withholding status if they cld potentially be sent to a third country, according to ICE memo @nickmiroff.bsky.social obtained. “If removal appears significantly likely in…future, arrest may proceed.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Top administration officials have been “pressuring world leaders to accept deportees who aren’t their own citizens, floating it as a way to ingratiate themselves to Trump,” @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes:

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This is really good ⬇️

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Trump wants a new plane. Now, so does Homeland Security Secretary Noem. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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To solve the world's thorniest problems, Steve Witkoff has come to believe that, as Trump did with politics, he can turn a lack of expertise to his advantage. “This is sort of like Mr. Smith Goes to the Mideast." NEW via @isaacstanbecker www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"Instead of establishing his guilt before deporting him, the government chose to deport him and then try to establish his guilt in the court of public opinion. But that’s not how due process works." Read @adamserwer.bsky.social latest on Kilmar Abrego Garcia case www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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NEW: I was at Dulles yesterday when the South African refugees arrived. I met an Afrikaner family excited to start a new life in Idaho www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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“Donald Trump’s 2016 victory inspired a revolution in economic thinking among Democrats. His 2024 restoration now threatens to kill off that revolution for good,” Rogé Karma writes.

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"Whenever public attention on immigration shifts from the border to U.S. streets, support for aggressive enforcement tends to erode," @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes. "It happened during Trump’s first term. It’s happening even faster now":

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NEW -- Trump's eroding immigration approval rating follows an iron law of ICE enforcement: the more Americans see what it looks like, the less they tend to support mass deportation www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The first foreign trip of Trump’s second term will come almost eight years to the day after his first presidential trip abroad, and it will begin in the same place—Saudi Arabia, @JonLemire writes: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized. The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.

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Fears of being detained at U.S. airports are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown, @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes:

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Trump’s Kennedy Center Debut: Les Mis and Six-Figure Checks Via @AshleyRParker and @michaelscherer www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW: Trump to make his Kennedy Center debut for Les Miserables, and six-figure checks. W @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW: Trump's "extreme vetting" orders and stories of airport arrests and detentions have travelers worried about getting singled out when they return from abroad. CBP says fears are overblown but some travelers are taking burner phones and changing summer plans. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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