Actually, Most Immigrants Won’t Need to Leave U.S. to Get Green Cards, D.H.S. Says www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...

DHS memo obtained by the Times shows the top lawyer of the agency assuring agents that they were “not legally required to comply with state and local mask prohibitions while carrying out their official duties.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/n...

Belatedly, honored for this recognition of our work last year. If you work in the federal government on immigration and want to talk about what I should be looking into right now message me on Signal: haleaziz.81

New: An internal email obtained by Times shows, a lawyer for ICE instructed a Justice Department lawyer preparing to appear before Judge DuBose, that he should withhold information about international charges from the judge. The email has not been previously reported.

NEW from @haleaziz.bsky.social: Florida today told workers at "Alligator Alcatraz," a state-run immigration detention tent camp which was holding around 1,400 people as of last month, that it would be shutting down the camp, with all detainees transferred out (likely to ICE) by early June.

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Bob Odenkirk just made me teary. Talking about parenthood. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/m...

pulled some disparate data together and analyzed it for this story

Immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests and criticizing Israel, according to new guidance from the Trump administration in internal DHS training materials reviewed by The New York Times.

Scoop: immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media and desecrating the American flag, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Breaking News: The Justice Department wants to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of foreign-born Americans, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations, according to a U.S. official.

Notable comment from DOJ. A spokesperson said officials were “pursuing the highest volume of denaturalization referrals in history” from the Department of Homeland Security.

Scoop: The DOJ has identified nearly 400 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

Bill Essayli, Trump's man in L.A., talks a lot about fraud. Something he doesn't talk about: his family's federal fraud case, and how he defended it against the office he now runs. Our reporter Matt Hamilton uncovered the case and went deep on a major Trump player. lamaterial.com/p/bill-essay...

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

We spent months looking into how the Trump admin has remade the immigration courts by purging judges and pressuring those who remain to accelerate deportations. HT @nicknehamas.bsky.social for steering and @datab.ae, Allison McCann, @haleaziz.bsky.social + many more www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

ICYMI, @londonoe.bsky.social’s reporting has been a master class in staying on a story. In his latest, he and colleagues obtained video that complicates the official account of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. What was described as a threat looks different on tape. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

New from me and @haleaziz.bsky.social: Months before the ICE arrest this week of a WI mosque leader, Secretary of State Marco Rubio found him to be a threat to the US foreign policy interest of combating antisemitism, according to federal officials and gov records. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Scoop: California’s senators have launched an inquiry into T.S.A. officials tipping off ICE agents when undocumented immigrants with deportation orders are on on flights’ passenger lists. This is how a woman was recently detained at SFO. With @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

“The correspondence does not say that the U.S. withheld criticism in exchange for taking the migrants, but diplomats made clear that they believed the silence would play to their advantage in negotiations.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

Remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against protesters there. $30 million in funds. Inside how Cameroon and the U.S. struck a deal over third-country migrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

Did you see the viral video of a woman being handcuffed by ICE agents at SFO Sunday night? They knew where to find her because TSA officials tipped them off under a new Trump administration program. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

We spent hours talking to Greg Bovino in his final days as a Border Patrol official. He mocked Tom Homan. Criticized the current CBP chief. Acknowledged clashes with ICE and the National Guard. Lots more here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

The Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary on Monday.

Some places that did not have high-profile ICE operations this year, such as Florida and San Antonio, have seen high and steadily increasing numbers of arrests, new data analyzed by The New York Times reveals. See how else the data has varied across the U.S.

Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and a longtime Trump ally, was in a custody battle over his son. An ICE official agreed to help. Full Story: nyti.ms/4bDpop4

Paolo Zampolli, a longtime friend of Donald and Melania Trump, asked a top ICE official to have the mother of his son detained, The New York Times found. Zampolli told the official that it would help him in a custody battle. The ICE official agreed to help. nyti.ms/4bzFOPk

A Trump friend in a custody fight came up with a novel way to try to get his son back: He called ICE and told them his ex-girlfriend was in the country illegally. She has since been deported. By Megan Tuohy @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Persian New Year, or Nowruz, arrives this weekend and is celebrated with meals full of freshness and comfort. Here are some standout options. nyti.ms/4sTwLzU

MSM news reports rarely state that a public figure "lied" bc that is the word for a situation in which a speaker says something false with intent to deceive (vs being mistaken, deluded, etc). Subjective interior state of mind is tricky to impute from outside. I understand why this is irritating.

RIP John Burns, perhaps the last of a generation of swashbuckling, straight-from-central-casting war correspondents who ran to the sound of the guns and filed exquisite copy at the end of the day. A spendid tribute by @cowellcnd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

travel scoop: global entry is back www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show. My story:

In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January.

In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Protesters demanding regime change in Iran gathered on Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of foreign leaders and diplomats focused on international security. Demonstrations also took place in other cities across the globe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Breaking News: The Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino mocked the Jewish faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota during a call with lawyers, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.

New:Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene. w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Federal court judge on the ICE operation targeting refugees: "Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefully—and importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested and detained without warrants..."

Amazing how long ago Venezuela invasion and Greenland threats seem. Cycles of manmade chaos.

We profiled refugees who: Arrived in the country legally. Applied for green cards. Were arrested by ICE and detained. One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released. This is an unprecedented operation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Killings in Minneapolis Invert Usual Dynamic Over Policing the Police It is far rarer and more difficult for state authorities to try to investigate federal law enforcement officials than the other way around. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Iranians had protested en masse, fueled by the country's plunging economy. Security forces began to crack down with deadly force, killing at least 5,200 people. Verified videos show the breadth and ferocity of the regime’s crackdown. nyti.ms/3M4Xjyg

NEW: After Maduro's capture, Venezuela's government will now receive more deportation flights following discussions with Trump officials. Up to three deportation flights per week are expected, up from two-a-week last year. W/ Annie Correal and @haleaziz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/w...

The Trump administration's response to the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has underscored how it has embraced using lethal force in self-defense, which is supposed to be a last resort under the agency's written standards.

Breaking News: As President Trump weighs military action in Iran, the U.S. military is evacuating some personnel from an air base in Qatar as a precaution.