To defend ICE’s tactic of profiling and demanding documents from anyone they encounter, DHS argues that other governments, including dictatorial regimes in Cuba and Venezuela, do the same. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.“

Most US adults believe President Trump has overreached in his use of federal immigration forces apnews.com/article/trum...

The Tribune has obtained evidence from the case of a Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol that offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at one of the highest-profile investigations of Operation Midway Blitz. UPDATED STORY here with video and texts between agents www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

The US Administration ordered her to seized off the street by masked agents, imprisoned incognito for weeks, all for thoughtfully expressing an opinion with zero advocacy of violence or harm to anyone. Sickening, anti-Conservative, anti-constitutional, anti-American. We are far better than this.

In this week's Receipts, I wrote about "Coalie," the Trump admin's anime-like new mascot for coal; and other failing efforts to revive manly sectors like mining and manufacturing. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." Judge Fred Biery www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year’s 2030 census field test, and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with US Postal Service workers, raising concerns about the U.S. Census Bureau’s ability to produce a reliable national head count

Immigration policy is unlikely to change so long as Stephen Miller and the goal of mass deportation remain. GOP Sen. Thom Tillis compared Miller to the Lord of the Rings villain Grima Wormtongue, the advisor to King Theoden. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

My take on Kevin Warsh: Markets have breathed a sigh of relief that Trump isn't trying to install Hassett as Fed chair. But Warsh is also a political animal; he just hides it better. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

The White House could not be clearer here. It opposes immigration, period. It is radically, ideologically, categorically dead-set against immigration itself—against “all visas”. Against the very same immigration that brought Miller’s refugee ancestors to the United States.

For decades, nativists have said that mass deportation was about "the rule of law." Now we can see that they never cared about the rule of law at all. The Administration Misleads & Ignores Courts Most Often in Immigration Cases www.cato.org/blog/admin-m...

Latinas for Trump cofounder "worried for the first time that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might stop her son, a young adult, because he looks Hispanic" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Immigrants save lives too

New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce **legal** immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

US citizen says he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing half-dressed. He was later returned home without explanation or apology, he said.

A 33% to 50% legal immigration cut: “Analysts note there's no policy justification for the reductions in legal immigration other than a desire of Stephen Miller & others to allow fewer immigrants the opportunity to live in the US.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

In which DHS says a U.S. citizen can be detained for speaking in Mexican accented Spanish. How many people in the US would be subject to being detained on this basis?

In Friday's preliminary injunction — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — order and opinion out of Minnesota, this paragraph stuck out to me. For reasons.

The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death. The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post. This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide. wapo.st/4qR1T1U

A father says he was with his six children when they were hit by munitions deployed by law enforcement in response to demonstrations that turned violent in Minneapolis. Three of the children went to the hospital, including a 6-month-old baby, who stopped breathing after being hit by tear gas

New lawsuit: In Trump’s first term, USCIS changed the process so H-1B spouses couldn’t work due to delays in approving renewals of work permits. After the Biden admin changed the process, the Trump team changed it back. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.

NEW: @globalrefuge.bsky.social condemns the Trump administration’s arrest & detention of lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota, upending decades of U.S. policy and inflicting needless harm on families who were invited to rebuild their lives in safety. 1/ www.globalrefuge.org/news/refugee...

Navigating employment-based immigration options can be complex. The Legal Pathways that Work (LPTW) initiative helps students and graduates understand their options. 🎥 Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugjj... #InternationalStudents #ImmigrantStudents #ImmigrationPathways #CareerServices

I don't understand how this is legal...? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

With what possible legal authority?

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

This is insanity. Our bedrock American institutions are being torn apart. This will permanently harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans. Our Congress has the power and duty to stop this. Now. Tonight.

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Not deporting Venezuelans with TPS would “lower the deficit by $70.9 billion & raise GDP by $504.4 billion” in 10 years; 50 million barrels of oil are worth $2.8 billion. Economist Mark Regets: “People are more valuable than oil.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Not deporting Venezuelans with TPS would “lower the deficit by $70.9 billion & raise GDP by $504.4 billion” in 10 years; 50 million barrels of oil are worth $2.8 billion. Economist Mark Regets: “People are more valuable than oil.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Expect new immigration restrictions in 2026: “Stephen Miller and other policy staff have treated Donald Trump’s positive statements on H-1B visas & international students as if they came from an eccentric relative visiting for the holidays.” @mclem.org www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

We say NO to Curtis Yarvin and to every last disgusting apologist for Nazis. NO, Hitler wasn’t a “genius” who was “right” about most things except for some minutia. Hitler was a pathetic cancer. He murdered people in my family. ALL his ideas led to that. Not a couple of oopsies.

Among the most inspiring #immigration stories of 2025: Omar Yaghi, born a refugee in Jordan, came to America to attend community college and earned a PhD and later the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Top 5 immigration stories of 2025: 1. Unprecedented broad bans on legal immigration 2. Stripping millions of lawful status 3. Deprioritization of criminals 4. Papers-please racial profiling 5. Serious attacks on the Constitution www.cato.org/blog/most-im...

My comment for @latimes.com on the endless efforts to persuade Trump that Putin is the obstacle to peace. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

The steady stream of reports about “progress” in peace talks can make a misleading impression. 3 things to remember: 1) much of the current talking is between 🇺🇸-🇺🇦-🇪🇺; 2) Putin has shown no interest in compromise; 3) All sides are at pains to show Trump that they are interested in a deal.

DHS has published its final rule to change the H-1B lottery to favor people in senior positions. By disadvantaging international students in the H-1B selection process, the rule achieves a longtime goal of Stephen Miller. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬ www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.” www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

New research: The new proclamation blocking the Immediate Relatives of US Citizens from 39 countries & the low refugee ceiling mean legal immigration is now projected to decline by at least 600K during Donald Trump’s 2nd term. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

"These Meduza readers emigrated from Russia. Here’s what strikes them when they visit home." Interesting reflections from 11 emigre Russians after visits back to Russia. mdza.io/k/YrXR38EkHA

Per Stephen Miller’s influence, the new National Security Strategy mistakenly assumes America can reap the benefits of immigration, particularly higher levels of innovation & economic growth, without admitting immigrants. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬ www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...