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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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Caroline Haskins
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SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
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Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/
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Eric Lipton NYT
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The New York Times Washington bureau is filled with historic photographs of American history, of presidents in key moments throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, photos taken by bureau staffers. This one happens to sit just above my desk. Cheney, George HW Bush and Colin Powell
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Peter Baker
8 days ago
Trump lowers refugee admissions to just 7,500 a year, down from 125,000 set by Biden, rejecting thousands of people fleeing war and persecution while reserving the record-low slots for mostly white Afrikaner South Africans. Zolan Kanno-Youngs
@haleaziz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
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Trump Cuts Refugee Admissions and Prioritizes White South Africans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/trump-refugee-admissions-white-south-africans.html?smid=url-share
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Carl Quintanilla
8 days ago
DHS “probably violated federal immigration laws, which entitle most immigrants facing deportation to a hearing before a judge — a hearing Mr. Juarez never had. .. It is unclear how many other immigrants like Mr. Juarez have been erroneously removed ..”
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The New York Times
8 days ago
Alejandro Juarez, who worked for more than a decade at a Trump Organization golf club, said he was never given a chance to contest his deportation in front of an immigration judge before he was returned to Mexico. ICE agents told him that they were just following orders. Those orders were wrong.
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How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico
When Alejandro Juarez was returned to his homeland, federal agents told him that they were just following orders. Those orders were wrong.
https://nyti.ms/4oG7XZR
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The Trump administration makes it official: The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500. As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:
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Mr. Juarez worked for more than a decade at a Trump Organization golf club in New York. His eldest son, 20, is stationed at a military base in California, where he serves in the Marines. All his children are U.S. citizens.
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Luis Ferré-Sadurní
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NEW: How ICE mistakenly deported Alejandro Juarez to Mexico. Alejandro was detained in NYC, put on the wrong ICE plane and sent to Mexico. He never saw a judge, no deportation order - a likely violation of law. W/
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How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyregion/immigrant-wrongly-deported-mexico.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.CJ8Q.SkfHewKy4uQr&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Alejandro Juarez was supposed to be transferred to an ICE facility in Arizona. He has a court hearing in October. Instead, DHS put him on the wrong plane -- and deported him to Mexico. One of the craziest stories I've reported w/
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
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How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyregion/immigrant-wrongly-deported-mexico.html
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The New York Times
14 days ago
Breaking News: Bay Area cities beyond San Francisco have also been spared after the Trump administration's planned deportation surge was canceled, officials said.
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Federal Immigration Enforcement Surge Called Off Across the Bay Area, Officials Say
President Trump said on Thursday that he had called off the deployment in San Francisco. Two federal officials said on Friday that the action applied across the region.
https://nyti.ms/48L6GfB
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Eric Lipton NYT
15 days ago
The NYT does such incredible and important work, serving society every single day. Thinking that as I read this piece. Proud of my colleagues for documenting this violence in Syria Rebels promised peace. Then came the killing spree (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...
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Firing Squads and Forced Death Leaps: A Tipping Point in Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/middleeast/syria-massacre-druse.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk8.ddon.vgzcvfpcY9fU&smid=url-share
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Eric Lipton NYT
15 days ago
An ode to the East Wing, RIP. Written by my friend and colleague (and one time boss) Elisabeth Bumiller.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/east-wing-obituary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v08.ECBg.2x53f7WJTbNZ&smid=url-share
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Jazmine Ulloa
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Federal cases challenging the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps could redefine the limits on the discretion officers have to stop, question and detain people over their citizenship and how much race and ethnicity can factor in those decisions. Free link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
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Can ICE Stop People Solely Based on Their Race?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/ice-race-ethnicity-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v08.uEb6.NC5TM8He7S3P&smid=url-share
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Carl Quintanilla
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This photo.
@sfstandard.com
#SFO
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NEW: U.S. Border Patrol agents are expected to head soon to the San Francisco Bay Area for an immigration enforcement operation, according to three officials familiar with the plan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
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Border Patrol Plans Crackdown in the San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/border-patrol-san-francisco-bay-area.html
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Sheera Frenkel
17 days ago
Today, a member of my family sent me an AI-generated video (from Sora) with the watermark blurred over. They had no idea it was AI. Amazing, how that took no time at all.
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We rode along with Border Patrol to understand what they were doing in Chicago. Please watch:
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: The Border Patrol’s Blueprint for American Cities
The U.S. Border Patrol is expanding its mission to major cities across America, and building a splashy social media campaign to promote it. We joined them in Chicago — hundreds of miles away from the ...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010453858/chicago-us-border-patrol.html
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NEW: The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-refugee-white-people.html
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Dan Lamothe
24 days ago
Turned in the badge today. My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues. Danlamothe.30
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Tanvi Misra
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his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?
Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-happened-to-the-migrants-dumped-in-panama.html
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The New York Times
about 1 month ago
President Trump called Portland “War ravaged” to justify his move to send troops to the city. But in the days before his announcement, federal officials tasked with protecting government buildings said protests outside an ICE facility were “low energy.”
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Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’
Oregon officials say the atmosphere outside an ICE building that has drawn daily demonstrations since June has grown worse since the president’s threats.
https://nyti.ms/3J3wI30
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On Sept. 27, President Trump described Portland, Ore., as a “War ravaged” city. But here is how federal officers described the scene outside the ICE building in southwest Portland on Sept. 25: “low energy.” The next day the same: “low energy.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
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Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-portland-troops.html
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Jazmine Ulloa
about 1 month ago
A majority of voters favor deporting those in the U.S. illegally, but say President Trump’s tactics have gone too far, a new Times/Siena poll found. w/ Ruth Igielnik
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Voters Favor Deporting Those in U.S. Illegally, but Say Trump Has Gone Too Far
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/trump-deportation-illegal-immigrants-voters-poll.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r08.7KkG.r4G2ODuW17hq&smid=url-share
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The New York Times
about 1 month ago
Breaking News: President Trump told Congress in a confidential notice that he had decided that the U.S. was in an “armed conflict” with certain drug cartels.
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Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”
https://nyti.ms/46MeH14
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ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data. We detail how that happened:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...
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How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/politics/washington-dc-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.UHL7.9Jw0hTx7RmXZ&smid=url-share
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The New York Times
about 1 month ago
Breaking News: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by deporting noncitizen student activists.
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Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
In a blistering opinion, a federal judge in Boston said the Trump administration used the threat of deportations to systematically intimidate certain campus demonstrators into silence.
https://nyti.ms/3VJvEUL
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Scoop: The Trump administration is deporting a planeload of about 100 Iranians back to Iran from the US after a deal between the two governments, according to two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and a U.S. official with knowledge of the plans.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...
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U.S. Deports Planeload of Iranians After Deal With Tehran, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/middleeast/us-iran-deportation-flight.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Heather Knight
about 1 month ago
Scoop: Trump fired a U.S. Attorney in Sacramento less than six hours after she told his California border patrol chief to abide by court orders and the Constitution while conducting his immigration raids. With
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/trump-fires-us-attorney-california-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The New York Times analyzed these videos; interviewed policing experts; and reviewed law enforcement policies to understand how an attempted immigration arrest turned deadly so quickly.
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How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly
The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/23/us/ice-shooting-chicago-video.html
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NEW: The Trump administration will terminate deportation protections for thousands of migrants from Syria, homeland security officials said on Friday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
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Trump Administration Will End Deportation Protections for Thousands of Syrians
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/temporary-protected-status-syrians.html
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Zach Montague
about 2 months ago
NEW: A whistle-blower report regarding the Guatemalan children who the Trump administration planned to repatriate claims that the government misrepresented its own data in court, failing to mention that at least 30 of 327 children had been flagged as vulnerable to violence or abuse if sent back.
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Whistle-Blower Account Contradicts Government’s Claims on Guatemalan Children
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/whistleblower-congress-guatemalan-children.html
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Peter Baker
about 2 months ago
Proud to work with Michael Schmidt
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, who are stellar journalists and colleagues, and to work for AG Sulzberger, one of our generation's most stalwart champions of free speech.
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The New York Times Responds to Lawsuit Filed by President Donald Trump | The New York Times Company
“This lawsuit has no merit. It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting. The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation…
https://www.nytco.com/press/the-new-york-times-responds-to-lawsuit-filed-by-president-donald-trump/
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Lydia DePillis
about 2 months ago
Today with
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: Most of the Korean workers detained during an ICE raid on a Ga. battery plant last week were on short-term businesses visas. In at least one case, ICE acknowledged a worker hadn't violated his visa, and forced him to deport anyway.
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Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/business/economy/hyundai-raid-worker-visas.html
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Ben Mullin
about 2 months ago
This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission:
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
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Penn State plans to 'wind down' WPSU after board committee rejects plan to transfer it to WHYY
WPSU, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary of bringing public media to Pennsylvania, is slated to close soon, after a Penn State board of trustees committee voted Thursday against a proposal...
https://radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/penn-state-plans-close-wpsu-board-committee-rejects-transfer-whyy
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Asawin Suebsaeng
2 months ago
Icymi, I’ve got a new gig
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The Trump administration warned in immigration court on Thursday that if Abrego Garcia’s recent attempt to open an asylum case in the US is successful, govt officials will seek to deport him back to El Salvador, according to a copy of the filing obtained by The NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
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Trump Administration Threatens Abrego Garcia With Deportation to El Salvador
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/politics/trump-deportations-abrego-garcia-el-salvador.html
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The New York Times
2 months ago
Orville Etoria, a Jamaican citizen with legal residency in the U.S., was among five men with criminal records deported in July to a prison in Africa. His case highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
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Trump Administration Deports Jamaican Man to African Prison Years After U.S. Sentence
The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
https://nyti.ms/4lRL8Ra
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kate conger
2 months ago
We studied how Elon Musk shifts Grok’s politics to mirror his own. Sometimes it works, like when Grok changed overnight from saying disinformation was the worst threat to humanity to claiming it was birth rate decline instead. Other times, Grok is harder to influence:
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How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conservative-chatbot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.GUk_.Jr9ol8QfxSVA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Asawin Suebsaeng
2 months ago
I told my UC editing class this semester about
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’s “SMB” (sucks, make better) recurring editing note in the margins of my drafts. I expected laughter. If I heard right, there were no laughs. A few looks of horror, but no laughter. Nick is a monster
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The Eswatini government at one point requested a half-billion dollars from the United States in exchange for taking in third-country deportees, according to documents obtained by The Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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Man Who’d Served His Time in U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/africa/trump-deportations-prison-us-eswatini-africa-jamaica.html
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The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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Man Who’d Served His Time in U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/africa/trump-deportations-prison-us-eswatini-africa-jamaica.html?partner=IFTTT
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NEW: The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
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U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/world/middleeast/us-palestinian-visa-suspensions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Our profile of Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief leading the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
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The Border Patrol Chief Leading the California Immigration Crackdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/gregory-bovino-immigration-california.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
2 months ago
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The New York Times
2 months ago
Breaking News: Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington, D.C., people familiar with the matter said.
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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who are dealing with the fallout from President Trump’s move to send National Guard troops and federal agents into Washington.
https://nyti.ms/45NtrMI
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kate conger
2 months ago
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
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DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.0yRw.B-PJ1MUPS4Hw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
“We need to make McCarthy great again,” Laura Loomer told
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when he suggested her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare of the early 1950s. She responded: “McCarthy was right.”
https://theatln.tc/Pjjsq3OA
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Mina Kimes
3 months ago
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
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U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Right-Wing Outcry
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
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U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Right-Wing Outcry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/us/politics/gaza-visitor-visas-medical-trump-loomer.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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This morning, ICE sent out a memo offering cash bonuses for quick deportations. The New York Times reached out to DHS about the memo. It then got cancelled. Story:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
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ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Ryan Mac 🙃
3 months ago
important story from the hardest working reporter in the biz,
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