UPDATED ICE is referring hundreds of immigrant children to federal shelters from the US interior, not from the border. Among them are parents separated from their children, an issue raised at a Senate hearing today: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"What they did wasn’t warranted. I know for an absolute fact I did nothing wrong." George Retes, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran swept up in an ICE raid, spoke with Conor Friedersdorf: https://theatln.tc/70IO4a9F 📸: Carlos Jaramillo for The Atlantic

The early picture of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin is complicating many assumptions, @shaneharris, @isaacstanbecker, and @vmsalama report. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW: Kavanaugh's opinion on racial profiling this week made street-level ICE checks sound like a breeze. But the agency hasn't set clear guidelines for US citizens and others with legal status who want to quickly end an encounter with an officer www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Kamala Harris in The Atlantic today, on how Biden treated her—and the “recklessness” of those who didn’t tell him he should drop out

Trump has defunded successful community-violence-intervention programs in favor of a crime-fighting philosophy that seems drawn from the 1980s, when no-tolerance policies helped quadruple the nation’s incarcerated population, @ToluseO reports: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The maximum-security penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, is the latest entry in Donald Trump’s casting call for a fearsome prison of his own, Nick Miroff reports.

NEW: DHS has opened an ICE detention center at Louisiana's Angola state prison, the latest stop in Trump search for a scary lockup www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Homeland Security has now put up its new final rule meant to allow USCIS — the agency typically evaluating immigration applications and granting benefits — to now have armed special agents as well

With this week's air strike in the Caribbean, Trump has pushed the military further outside its traditional mission and into a realm once reserved for law enforcement, @nancyayoussef + @Missy Ryan + @JonLemire + @shaneharris report: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

RIP Peter Spring, who found solace and redemption in New Orleans after Katrina, through music and pure kindness. Will always treasure working on this with you @jmooallem.bsky.social

NEW: I went to an ICE job fair in Texas this week and spoke to 15 applicants. Here's snapshot of who is joining Trump's deportation force, and why they're signing up: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE, spending aggressively and taking an even more confrontational approach with critics and opponents, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/OH59S1s1

Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE, spending aggressively and taking an even more confrontational approach with critics and opponents, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW: Trump officials are showing off their new ICE billions with a flashy new phase of the mass deportation campaign, inviting recruits to reverse US "cultural decline" and fast-tracking academy training to more than double the number of officers on US streets www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

How Laura Loomer "the proud, defiant, extremist troll," became one of the most influential public figures in Trump's America. Brilliant work and a story for our times, from @michaelscherer.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before www.wired.com/story/phone-...

After rushing to shut down the government-funded media outlets she was tapped to lead, Kari Lake is now trying to force many of her own employees -- journalists on J-1 visas -- out of the country, Toluse Olorunnipa reports @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I know it's true, and yet it's staggering to see this information compiled in one list. My (now former) Washington Post colleagues who have left since November 1. Doesn't include a few of us who left in October. There are nearly 100 names here. Generations of talent. www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Seems normal and fine www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration tell Gisela Salim-Peyer that they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison.

The opinion from Xinis "took on the now familiar tone of a judge angered and exasperated by what she called the Trump administration’s “troubling history” of disregarding court orders, “defiance and foot-dragging” and “persistent lack of transparency.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Gregory Bovino is in charge of Trump’s immigration crackdown in L.A. The performative qualities that made him a sometimes-mocked figure within CBP are the same ones that landed him a starring role in the deportation campaign, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW: our profile of Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official running the immigration raids on the streets of Los Angeles, and what his role portends for next phase of Trump's propaganda-driven deportation campaign @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Sligo Creek in Silver Spring near Colesville Rd. Never seen it this high.

"An octogenarian Air Force retiree who spent half a century in his nation’s service was not allowed to attend a party for a dog he essentially donated to the government and named after his dead wife." Great @shaneharris.bsky.social on Trump animus towards canines, and James Clapper

New: How an adorable yellow lab got caught up in Trump's campaign of "Deep State" revenge. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

More and more, Trump is detaining children. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“More systematically than in his first term, Trump’s administration is reaching into the federal immigration bureaucracy to roll back an array of protections for undocumented children,” @mccrummen.bsky.social writes:

NEW: I spoke to a dozen current and formers about low morale at ICE amid the Trump admin's relentless push for more and more arrests. Officers and agents aren't complaining or looking for sympathy but they're facing public anger & political pressure from above www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

One arms shipment "does not make or break Ukraine’s war effort," The Atlantic’s @nancyayoussef writes. "But uncertainty could." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

NEW: First Trump came for Meta--Zuck paid $25m. Then Trump came for X--Musk paid $10m. Then Paramount: $16m. Now, Google will decide what to pay for restricting Trump's YouTube account in '21. Never mind that the law is probably not on Trump's side. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Judge Holmes accepts proposal by attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia to keep him locked up for several more weeks so ICE doesn't try to re-deport him. Court order mandates his appearance at next hearing July 16. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A feature I wrote for my fellow insomniacs, one that (I hope) is neither reproachful nor plump with myths and misunderstandings: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

NEW President Trump has railed against America’s “endless wars.” But he’s found a style of attack that he likes. Via @Missy Ryan @ashleyrparker.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Some of the last remaining Republican lawmakers to push back against Trump and his policies are from the same state -- a deep-red one that the president won by 30.5 percentage points last year, @russellberman writes. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rather than admit a mistake, the Trump administration is trying to build a criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia by cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to deport him again, @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes.

NEW: It was an extraordinary week in the government's campaign to condemn Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ending with his own attorneys asking a judge today to delay release and *keep him in jail* to protect him from ICE deportation. Catch up here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. spy chief who built her political identity opposing military intervention, is falling in line after the bombing of Iran. Via @isaacstanbecker and @shaneharris www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump administration is trying to scare migrants into self-deporting and reporting their departure in the CBP Home app. More than 7,000 people have signed up so far, and of those, more than 3,000 have left, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW: About 3k people have "self-deported" using the CBP Home app so far, and more than 7k have signed up. But the Trump admin is pushing for many, many more, and pitching the app as a gentler alternative to harsh enforcement at the hand of ICE www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW: Trump insists Iran’s nuclear facilities were “totally obliterated.” Not everyone is so sure. Via @missy_ryan + @JonLemire + @AshleyRParker + @isaacstanbecker + @shaneharris www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

On Iran, Trump changed. The intelligence didn't. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... My latest.

BREAKING: Magistrate judge rules Abrego Garcia should not be detained on his criminal charges — even though he’s likely to remain in ICE custody. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump had asked Israel to hold off its attack on Iran, @Missy Ryan, @JonLemire, and @isaacstanbecker report. Now he’s scrambling to make a deal in negotiations that have become even more complex. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Videos of feds arresting workers at LA car wash shows Border Patrol agents now working w/ ICE far from Mexico border, in this case providing entire operations team for what appears to be a single ICE officer. Great reporting from @arelisrhdz.bsky.social et al www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Anatomy of a raid: How immigration agents descended on an L.A. car wash wapo.st/44bXON7

NEW: Culture war, with real troops. What I saw during three days in downtown LA www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I've been in downtown LA since Sunday. Here's what I saw. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More Waymos set ablaze in downtown LA