An army of masked ICE agents snatching people when they show up to work, to church, to their child’s day care, to immigration court. A return of family separations. That deportation flight ASMR video the White House posted on X. Kristi Noem posing in front of tattooed detainees at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. When […]
For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. When the Alligator […]
On a Friday afternoon in early September, Anam Rahman Petit sat in the Annandale immigration court in Virginia, ready to announce an oral decision on a complex family asylum case. Then, she got an email. It was a notice from the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)—the Department of Justice’s agency that […]
Later phases of the agreement also include numerous requirements that are unlikely to be fulfilled, such as the disarming of Hamas.
The Trump-brokered agreement drove cautious optimism that a permanent end to their brutal two-year conflict could be near.
The rating for the Department of Homeland Security has improved, however, driven by Republican satisfaction.