Two weekends, two cities. I’ll be in San Antonio first, then Los Angeles.
 If you’re in Texas or California — come through. Thank you to @sabookfestival + @latimesfob + De Los Angeles Times for the invitations. ❤️‍🔥

““Bare due diligence would have shown that the agents were lying,” Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

A heartwrenching but beautiful must read from @la-ley.bsky.social on grappling with the Cesar Chavez fallout as a Mexican American and a granddaughter of a farmer worker in Hidalgo County, where the movement helped change lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

Stephen Miller raised the idea of ending public education funding for undocumented children in a closed-door meeting with Texas lawmakers last week, a move that would challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent, according to two people who were in the meeting.

<<wolf whistle>>

Shattered.

The Trump administration has portrayed protesters as left-wing terrorists, time and again, in cities that have borne the brunt of Trump's immigration crackdown. Here’s how the Justice Department has relentlessly pushed to pursue and prosecute protesters. nyti.ms/4sXUezT

Dylan Lopez Contreras, the NYC high school student who spent almost a year in immigration detention, held a press conference today and called for the release of others who remain confined. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/n...

NEW: Dylan Lopez Contreras, an NYC high school student whose arrest foreshadowed a stark escalation of President Trump’s deportation tactics, has been released from federal custody. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/n...

This was hard to read. My grandpa was a Mexican farm worker who toiled in Texas fields before I was born & I was raised with images of Cesar Chavez in my home. I knew about the Delano grape strike before I learned anything else about American history in public school. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents. Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:

NEW: Kristi Noem showed up in New York City to tout gang-linked arrests in the city and defend the officer in the Minneapolis shooting. She had sharp words for Mamdani, but stopped short of calling for an escalation in NYC. W/ @la-ley.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...

Red meat is very much back in the new US dietary guidelines, with a bright red steak and a packet of ground beef atop the (inverted) food pyramid. My latest for @bloomberg.com unpacks what that means for the climate

ICE officers in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman in a car, but details of the shooting remained unclear, with conflicting accounts from local and federal officials. The shooting took place about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Follow updates.

shutting down a 100-year-old newspaper (with roots dating to the 1700s!) rather than pay fair wages and engage in fair labor practices

NEW: Yuanxin Zheng, the 6-year-old boy from Queens whose separation from his father drew outrage in New York City, has been deported to China with his dad. With @haleaziz.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

NEW: this morning the Trump admin moved to terminate legal status for ~20,000 people: - Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, in place since 2022, with ~5,000 beneficiaries - Family Reunification Parole Programs, in place since 2023 and some legacy cases from earlier, covering ~15,000 people.

After Javier Muñoz was put in immigration detention and not allowed to bathe or change clothes for days at a time, he began feeling excruciating pain in his genitalia. A judge ordered his release and chronicled the graphic details of what happened. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/n...

They Witness Deaths on the Tracks and Then Struggle to Get Help By Jonah Markowitz, Bianca Pallaro and Ana Ley Photos & videos, Jonah Markowitz @la-ley.bsky.social About two people per week die under a subway train. I've often thought about the drivers. Most aren't getting the support they need.

NEW: New York lawmakers say that most immigrants in NYC are skipping court appointments and ICE check-ins to avoid detention, risking their path to legal status. Now they want to pass a law banning the arrest tactic. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...

When immigration agents arrested Fei Zheng with his 6-year-old son, he reportedly became aggressive and told them that he wanted to die. He has since been separated from his child, Yuanxin, as they await deportation to China. With @haleaziz.bsky.social gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...

New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

Fired Immigration Judge Sues Pam Bondi Lawsuit by former Judge Tania Nemer says she was targeted for being a Lebanese American woman and Democrat, testing the limits of Article II power over the immigration courts. migrantinsider.com/p/fired-immi...

NEW: The Trump administration has fired 8 immigration judges in one day in New York City as feds seek to restrict immigration nationwide (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota. REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members? TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.

Breaking News: Residents had warned officials of potential fire safety violations over a year before the deadly high-rise fire in Hong Kong.

If you’ve been thinking about joining IRE or renewing your membership, it’s the perfect time to take action during our fall membership drive🚗 Visit www.ire.org/join-ire to learn more about the many benefits of an IRE membership - including early bird rates for NICAR26 - March 5-8 in Indianapolis.

USCIS has restored citizenship ceremonies in upstate New York after pausing them abruptly (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Trump’s decision to call a female reporter “Piggy” on Air Force One, claiming the insult reflected the “frankness” that helped him win a second term.

@nickmiroff.bsky.social reports that the WH will send Gregory Bovino and his "Green Machine" of Border Patrol agents to NYC early next year after Mamdani is sworn in. "No president has ever used the Border Patrol this way. But the agency is modeling the kind of aggressive tactics Trump wants."

NEW: As New York braces for a potential surge in ICE activity, Tom Homan renewed his threat to send more agents to New York. That and more with @la-ley.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...

"This stringent enforcement and stringent examination of what has always been perfectly legal visa categories is new,” said AILA President Jeff Joseph. https://wapo.st/4oMLMBX

Mamdani Reaches Out to White House to Arrange Meeting With Trump (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/n...

Jubilant day for Joel Camas, the 16-year-old from the Bronx detained by ICE last month. Judge Cathy Seibel ordered his release, and he has just been reunited with his uncle. In court, Seibel lamented that migrant "kids are getting held for six months even though they have a safe place to go"

16 year old Bronx kid is released from custody today. He was grabbed in court by ICE on October 23rd. His mom already self-deported back to Ecuador in the hope of protecting her son. There will still be a battle because ICE still wants to deport him.

Ellis turns to the testimony of U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. How he denied using force against a man he tackled and said he didn't see the Rev. David Black hit by pepperballs. "More telling," she says, "defendant Bovino admitted that he lied."

BIG news for Texas. State troopers in Texas will now have the authority to make immigration arrests, same as ICE and Border Patrol. Whether this means all state troopers, or only a subset of officers, will get trained and authorized to carry out this duty remains to be seen.

“Mamdani has built his own new coalition of support, uniting younger voters with working-class immigrant enclaves in Queens. But he also made gains in working-class Black and Latino communities compared with the primary.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

“With election night triumphs on Tuesday, Democrats showed that their demoralized party — which spent the past year mired in self-recriminations and soul-searching — could still accomplish the most important goal in politics. They can win. And win big.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

NYC’s first millennial mayor does not splurge on suits: “The suits are, critically, inexpensive. In an interview with the men’s fashion podcast Throwing Fits, Mr. Mamdani said that his midnight blue suit was from Suitsupply, an economical Dutch brand.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/s...

In a deportation system filled with backlogs, where a win might not produce a green card immediately, all previous administrations, (including the first Trump admin!) have had some basic forbearance policies to align the intent of the law with the reality of execution. No longer.

Congress created Special Immigrant Juvenile Status as a protection against deportation — yet because of procedural quirks, there is a lag/limbo between SIJS and a green card, and a person can have both a removal order AND a SIJS grant. This admin is pushing forward with removal during this lag time.

Gift link The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

“The service members who conduct attacks have to live the rest of their lives with the memory.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia

Yesterday, I went to an ICE check-in with 16-year-old Joel Camas and his lawyer, who expected him to be out in time for school by 8am because he has special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Instead, he was detained. Here is what happened (free link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...