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I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times LA Times, BuzzFeed News, SF Chronicle alum
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NEW: Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

love to write about people in power telling workers not to leak... which is then promptly leaked www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Scoop: The Trump administration on Thursday cut protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States, putting them on track to be targeted for deportation this summer, according to government documents and an official with DHS. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

Wow, finally happened: The average wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs has now broken $8, per USDA.

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

the human cost www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...

NEW: The hiring freeze ordered last month by President Trump continues to stall onboarding of firefighters and could have deadly consequences as the national wildfire response operates at a "diminished capacity," a federal firefighting captain tells me. www.nbcnews.com/weather/wild...

got this as well. x, owned by a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist," is preventing the sharing of links to signal.

“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”- a Chinese man, Wang. He’s now locked in a hotel with 100+ others, including little children, after Trump admin shipped them to Panama. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

They arrived seeking asylum. Instead they were shackled, flown to Panama, stripped of passports and phones, locked in a hotel, barred from lawyers and soon will be sent to a camp near the jungle. Julie Turkewitz @haleaziz.bsky.social Farnaz Fassihi Annie Correal www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

The US has begun "exporting" asylum seekers to countries like Panama. At least 10, including 3 children, are Iranian Christians who would face apostasy charges if returned, @nytimes.com found. Others are from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Per this @nytimes.com story, among those deported by the Trump administration is Artemis Ghasemzadeh, an Iranian convert to Christianity. If returned to Iran, she could face the death penalty for her conversion. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

A South African imam who devoted his life to promoting gay rights and tolerance for LGBTQ Muslims was shot and killed in the coastal city of Gqeberha on Saturday, the police said. Muhsin Hendricks was credited by some as being the world’s first openly gay imam.

Listen to "The Headlines," which brings you the biggest stories of the day from the New York Times reporters who are covering them, all in about five minutes.

FDA officials overseeing reviewing Neuralink products were laid off by Elon Musk's DOGE www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.

Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

A slew of actions taken by President Trump during his first month in office bear the fingerprints of Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for overhauling the federal government. @karenyourish.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Trump administration deported migrants from several Asian nations to Panama on Wednesday night, Panamanian and U.S. officials said. This is a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

This shows that "doxxing" has become a meaningless, catch-all phrase for anything these guys do not like reported. @klong.bsky.social is an impressive reporter, who simply connected the anonymous postings of a self-declared racist to the public identity of someone directly altering government.

Finally got the invite

Trump basked as Netanyahu praised his “willingness to think outside the box.” But when it came to Gaza, Trump’s thinking was so far outside the box that it was not clear he even knew there was a box. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

Chaos (and constant reversals of just announced decisions that have massive economic and practical impact) are clearly a design feature of the Trump era. Hard for the public and news media to figure out how to handle/react to this. FYI, USPS REVERSAL: Still processing packages from China.

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

On this day in 1848, the US and Mexico signed a peace treaty ending their war. "There shall be firm and universal peace between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico," it said.

*working in pediatrics ER* me: and how old are you kid: I’m 30 in dog years and— mom: honey the doctor doesn’t want to know about dog years me: wait let him cook

In SF, a student’s erroneous info about seeing ICE on a bus prompted the school district to send parents a warning. In Chicago, a mistaken report that ICE showed up at a school set off panic. Our story on the fear of ICE gripping communities and changing behavior: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

Immigrants across the country are fearful of ICE raids, unfounded rumors are flying and calls to hotlines reporting ICE sightings have spiked since Trump took office. Teamed up with the great @haleaziz.bsky.social and Miriam Jordan for this one. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

When Musk bought Twitter, there were offers of paid exits, code reviews, eliminating of diversity programs, cutting of rent payments, and a reliance on staffers from his companies to enact his plans. All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...

President Trump wants to deport tens of thousands of migrants to Guantanamo Bay, and we explain here what he may be talking about. w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

NEW from @haleaziz.bsky.social: the Trump administration just suspended ALL humanitarian parole programs, including one dating back to the Bush administration. Presuming this also applies to re-parole renewing it every two years, you could see Ukrainians start to lose parole status within weeks.

The actual memo that @haleaziz.bsky.social reported on: www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

Marco Rubio will visit Panama and four other countries in Central America and the Caribbean starting late next week during his first overseas trip as Washington's top diplomat www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

Breaking News: A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order to end automatic citizenship for babies born on American soil. nyti.ms/4hjcm1u

BREAKING: Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services logo has changed on the official agency site. The previous logo had the State of Liberty.

State Department abruptly cancels travel for thousands of refugees already approved to fly to the US, days before a deadline Trump set for suspending the resettlement program that provides safe haven for people fleeing persecution. Miriam Jordan @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. nyti.ms/42ok5qL

ICE memo last night directed staff to use term “alien” — including referring to non citizenship as alienage.

Trump Administration Fires Immigration Court Officials as Crackdown Begins (scoop via @haleaziz.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

I've watched the video ~two dozen times. The gesture, which is done twice, seems both bizarre and familiar. He pats his open hand to his heart, before extending his arm palm down above his head with a grunt and pursed lips. Then he turns around and does it again. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

The acting head of the U.S. immigration court system and three other top officials were fired on Monday soon after President Trump took office, according to three people familiar with the matter, in a purge of the top echelon of a critical part of the government’s immigration system. nyti.ms/4hGs1In

Our story on the stunning firings at the U.S. immigration court: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...