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“Republican lawmakers are now preparing to lavish ICE with a colossal funding increase,” writes @nickmiroff.bsky.social. It will fund the “social and demographic transformation of the United States that immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving”:

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NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement. ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion. Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

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The administration’s drive to carry out the largest campaign in history has ensnared people who didn’t see themselves as targets. NEW via @caitlindickerson.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Baja California Police Cmdr. Abigail Esparza Reyes devoted her career to capturing fugitives from U.S. justice. She’s the Abigail in Kevin Sieff's 2022 Post report on the Gringo Hunters. She saw her job as protecting Mexico from American criminals. She was shot to death Wednesday. wapo.st/3RJ9eAT

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Last month, ICE announced that it had arrested 48 people in a sweep in New Mexico. But local & state officials, and immigrants-rights advocates, can’t get any information about who was arrested or where they are. What actually happened? My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported. “The stakes of the case may explain the justices’ unanimity, a clear show of force,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will require the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 6 days ago • 229 comments

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

“At times, he has instructed his staff on the finer points of arranging logs so they won’t collapse and create noise when burning during meetings.” @michaelscherer.bsky.social @ashleyrparker.bsky.social on Sec. Doug Burgum’s love of warm cookies & quiet fires www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has employed political appointees to make cookies and serve meals, and has used a U.S. Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social report.

submitted 11 days ago • 48 comments

NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

Via New York Times: “The DOJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department — less than 24 hours after defending the gov’t in federal court.”

submitted 11 days ago • 279 comments

EXCLUSIVE Trump touted their ICE arrests. Half were already in prison or jail -- not on the streets of America. Many had been deported before, some as many as four times. w/ amazing visualization by @arturgalocha.bsky.social LINK: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

There is about to be a staggering amount of smuggling into the United States. In addition to searching for fentanyl, the 25,000 customs officers at America's land crossings, airports, and seaports will also have to watch for Nintendo consoles, Android phones, and jars of cloves.

submitted 13 days ago • 105 comments

If sharing information on a commercial messaging app about the timing of U.S. military attacks isn’t secret, “then there’s nothing in government that is secret,” The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg tells staff writer Ashley Parker. theatln.tc/rQr1vq15

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

Trump messaging campaign claims ICE taking criminals off US streets. Many were already in prison. Great reporting from @mariasacchetti.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Border Patrol is reporting 7,180 migrant apprehensions in March. That's very few, but monthly averages show that it's not "the lowest in history" as the administration is claiming. There were fewer migrants in the 50s-60s and before WW II. See www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking news: The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing that it had wrongly deported an immigrant living in Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador despite a court ruling prohibiting it.

submitted 16 days ago • 52 comments

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O

submitted 16 days ago • 113 comments

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had withholding of removal back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

submitted 16 days ago • 354 comments

A CFO turned activist has become a go-to source for understanding the administration’s immigration crackdown.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

NEW a profile of ICE flight tracker extraordinaire Tom Cartwright, who went from a career overseeing hundreds of billions in banking assets to become the go-to source on U.S. deportation flights www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Read for yourself: Here are the attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 22 days ago • 188 comments

Two months into Trump’s second term, fear is taking hold across broad cross sections of American society www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... By Isaac Stanley-Becker

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

A story you'll need to read to believe: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on the Houthis in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, @JeffreyGoldberg www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

submitted 24 days ago • 371 comments

NEW on Stephen Miller’s second time around — with @jonlemire.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

We’ve tried to annex Canada before. A couple times, in fact. It didn't go so well. @eliotacohen.bsky.social with a quick history lesson:

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

Exclusive: The Trump administration has identified another green-card holder it wants to deport, in addition to Mahmoud Khalil, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Exclusive: The Trump administration has identified another green-card holder it wants to deport, in addition to Mahmoud Khalil, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

SCOOP -- a March 7 letter from Rubio to DHS identified a second green-card holder for revocation & arrest along with Mahmoud Khalil. Here's what we know: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... with @jonathanlemire.bsky.social

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

NEW Effort to deport Columbia student rests solely on Rubio determination, according to the official government records obtained by The Washington Post. w/ Cate Brown & John Hudson www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: ICE Isn’t Delivering the Mass Deportation Trump Wants ICE officers made about 18,000 arrests last month, according to data obtained by The Atlantic. Deportations were actually higher toward the end of Joe Biden’s presidency. via @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

While the White House claims that a mass deportation is ongoing, “the results of the actual deportation push appear to be more modest,” writes Nick Miroff. “The administration is churning through ICE leaders, blaming them for failing to deliver results.”

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

My first story for @theatlantic.com about ICE falling short on Trump’s deportation campaign — for now www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Trump, who has recently joked that he is a king, has asked to move a historical copy of the Declaration of Independence into the Oval Office. W/ @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: Trump administration DOGE folks working with Orban government in Hungary to investigate past USAID funding in the country. via @isaacstanbecker www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

New: Three migrants described to us what it was like being detained in Guantánamo. People screamed from their cells, there were suicide attempts, and prolonged periods in isolation that fit the UN definition of solitary confinement. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Some non-Trump content here & the first @washingtonpost.com story from Suriname in decades — about jaguar poaching, the shadowy underworld of wildlife trafficking to China & one unusual NGO’s effort to team with HSI to stop it www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... photos @carolynvan.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Soldiers are arriving at the border — but hardly any migrants are crossing, via @arelisrhdz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

Illegal crossings fell last year & new Trump troop deployment has border on lockdown @arelisrhdz reports: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 59 days ago • 17 comments

Relatives and records cast doubt on Guantánamo migrants being ‘worst of the worst’ @SilviaElenaFF @AnaVHerrero + @marialuisapaulr report: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Trump has mobilized a wartime effort to ramp up deportations, but ICE arrests have sagged so far this month, latest data show. Target lists have been depleted & ICE officers are working 6 days/week & struggling to meet quotas www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 61 days ago • 21 comments

I’m starting a new job next month at The Atlantic. Same DHS beat, different drum, thrilled to get started.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: the top two officials at ICE's enforcement division have been removed because Trump officials aren't satisfied with the pace and volume of immigration arrests, and because some detainees arrested have been released www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment