In March of 2025, the Trump Administration was widely criticized for sending more than two hundred Venezuelans to CECOT, a notoriously brutal mega-prison in El Salvador. Yet, over…
Read more How Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He WantsSo they do not want a constitutional crisis, but what is the alternative? You tiptoe around it and hope that the government comes into compliance by baby steps?…
Read more Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis?When I was working with refugees in Lebanon and Turkey and the Iraqi crisis, Rwanda, other places—you know, when everything’s taken away from you, God is all you…
Read more A Theology of ImmigrationJust a few years ago, what athletes had to say about social issues reverberated beyond sports. Under some pressure—not only from events of the day but, it appeared,…
Read more What We Expect Athletes to Say NowDuring the tumultuous period that preceded the Civil War, the United States passed a series of bills that came to be collectively known as the Compromise of 1850.…
Read more What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave ActThe politics today, I’m sorry to say, do not so far reflect a world in which Trump’s authoritarian overreach in Minneapolis has irrevocably poisoned his Presidency. It’s true…
Read more Operation Trump Rehab“Is that the one we were following before?” Sam asked. “No, that was an Expedition. This is a Suburban,” John, who was driving, replied. He took out a…
Read more The Battle for MinneapolisWord in Hazelwood spread quickly. When Andrea Valderrama, who represents Outer East Portland in the Oregon State Legislature and lives in the neighborhood, saw her elementary-school-aged daughter an…
Read more A D.H.S. Shooting Puts Portland Back Under the MicroscopeThe President and his advisers have called those opposing them in Minnesota radical lunatics, domestic terrorists, and outright insurrectionists. Do they expect us to have already forgotten that,…
Read more The Minnesota War Zone Is Trump’s Most Trumpian AccomplishmentBut many Minnesotans might also no longer be sure if protests today will lead to change. If this is the case, their hesitancy is likely shared by many…
Read more What Comes After the ProtestsFive years ago, a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, killed a man named George Floyd. The Twin Cities, then the rest of the country, exploded in Black Lives…
Read more An ICE Killing Puts Minneapolis on the BrinkListen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your…
Read more J. B. Pritzker Sounds the AlarmIn early October, Keith Wilson, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, visited 4310 South Macadam Avenue, an address that has thrust his city back into the national spotlight—and into…
Read more Portland Prepares for InvasionToday, “I don’t think the immigration-court system is a court system,” a former senior EOIR official and military judge said. “What this Administration wants is a rubber stamp.”…
Read more Inside Donald Trump’s Attack on Immigration CourtThere is plenty of antagonism between ICE agents and anti-ICE protesters. But it is hard to conclude that the protesters’ resistance constitutes a rebellion or an insurrection. To…
Read more The Conflict on the Streets of ChicagoOn a crisp September morning in Los Angeles, Elijah Chiland, Victor Maldonado, and four other volunteers of the Harbor Area Peace Patrol gathered at Wilmington Waterfront Park, just…
Read more The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los AngelesThe Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is so short and self-evident that you don’t need a law degree to understand it, or a judge to explain it…
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