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...

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

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...

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 ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

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.

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.: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf

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.

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/ @haleaziz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

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/ @luisferre7.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

Breaking News: Bay Area cities beyond San Francisco have also been spared after the Trump administration's planned deportation surge was canceled, officials said.

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...

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...

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...

This photo. @sfstandard.com #SFO sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...

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...

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.

We rode along with Border Patrol to understand what they were doing in Chicago. Please watch: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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...

Turned in the badge today. My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues. Danlamothe.30

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 @nymag.com --> nymag.com/intelligence...

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.”

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...

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 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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.

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...

Breaking News: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by deporting noncitizen student activists.

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...

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 @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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...

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.

Proud to work with Michael Schmidt @susannecraignyt.bsky.social and @russbuettner.bsky.social, who are stellar journalists and colleagues, and to work for AG Sulzberger, one of our generation's most stalwart champions of free speech. www.nytco.com/press/the-ne...

Today with @haleaziz.bsky.social : 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. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...

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...

Icymi, I’ve got a new gig

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...

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.

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: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

I told my UC editing class this semester about @nickbaumann.bsky.social’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

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...

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...

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...

Our profile of Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief leading the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

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.

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

“We need to make McCarthy great again,” Laura Loomer told @michaelscherer.bsky.social 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

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

U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Right-Wing Outcry www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

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...

important story from the hardest working reporter in the biz, @haleaziz.bsky.social