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“Republican lawmakers are now preparing to lavish ICE with a colossal funding increase,” writes Nick Miroff. It will fund the “social and demographic transformation of the United States that immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving”: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

BREAKING: Senator meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over his return to U.S. after mistaken deportation. apnews.com/article/abrego…

Federal officials have launched a full-throated effort to label Kilmar Abrego García a gang member and “a terrorist,” an argument based on a gang survey that was decommissioned amid questions over racial profiling. wapo.st/4is4KK5

Excellent deep dive here into the administration’s claims that Abrego García is a gang member, a “terrorist” and a “human trafficker.” At best, the allegations are flimsy. At worst, they’re a gross, baseless, defamatory smear. washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

***Deportations data from Nick Miroff *** "Last month ICE deported ~18,500 according to unpublished internal data, down from 23,000 in March 2024" "ICE removals are *declining* because border crossings are so low"

U.S. officials discussed how to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. and how to keep him safe from attacks in prison, Nick Miroff reports. Then the White House dug in. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Trump’s Cosplay Cabinet is perpetually performing tone poems to a certain type of MAGA masculinity. But mainly, Pete Hegseth just reminds me of my spy-obsessed kindergartner. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Two Trump interviews and one late night presidential butt dial later… my and Michael Scherer’s first Atlantic cover story—on Trump’s improbable comeback and newly aggressive presidency—is live: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Donald Trump canceled an interview with Ashley Parker and me, and then publicly attacked our integrity. So we called his cell and he picked up and spoke at length. He called weeks later at 1:28 am and later invited for an Oval Office interview. Read: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Spanish reporter was at the train station to record some quotes of travelers affected by the blackout. Randomly runs into Aragorn wearing a Ukraine shirt while being fluent in Spanish.

Fears of being detained at U.S. airports are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown, Nick Miroff writes: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

"Whenever public attention on immigration shifts from the border to U.S. streets, support for aggressive enforcement tends to erode," Nick Miroff writes. "It happened during Trump’s first term. It’s happening even faster now": theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

"Whenever public attention on immigration shifts from the border to U.S. streets, support for aggressive enforcement tends to erode," Nick Miroff writes. "It happened during Trump’s first term. It’s happening even faster now": theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

After a grand welcome ceremony with Trump officials, a dozen or so newly arrived South African refugees gathered in a parking lot for a smoke. A vegetable farmer excitedly told Nick Miroff he is "really relieved" to be headed to Idaho. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Suriname's elections will have significant consequences for the LAC and the United States. In his latest commentary, Senior Associate Robert Evan Ellis delves into one of South America's most overlooked strategic countries. csis.org/analysis/why-s…

"The most transparent DoD in U.S. history," as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth and his team calls itself, cracks down on media access again. I've been on this beat 17 years through numerous administrations. Never seen anything like this. One briefing all year. None again this week.

Here's Nick Miroff "on the frequent gap between what the Trump administration says about its mass-deportation campaign in court, where it is required to tell the truth, and what officials say in public as they attempt to blunt criticism of their immigration crackdown."