Mike Lofgren, the author, budget expert, and Monthly contributing writer, explains why a new Congress couldn’t simply fix Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Crabs, A Helicopter, and One Town’s Fight Against ICE
As ICE creates new deportation centers, Newport, on the quirky, impossibly beautiful Oregon coast, finds itself a battleground in Trump’s war on immigrants. It’s not alone as ICE plans for hosts of detention centers in small towns.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s ICE Problem—and Ours
Thanks to conservative justices, the law doesn’t allow him to compel cities, like Minneapolis, to bow to his immigration orders, and so he used ICE thuggery. It backfired. Now what?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Under Trump, The Cruelty of Third-Country Deportation
Conservative Supreme Court justices upheld, for now, the administration’s deportation of migrants to places other than their country of origin.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Want to Impeach Mayorkas. How About Giving Him a Medal?
The Homeland Security secretary and Cuban refugee is being pilloried by the right and some on the left for his immigration policies, but the Biden administration is succeeding in slowing the influx of refugees and ending the cruelty of the Trump era.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Once Again, The Supreme Court Upends a Legal Norm
Last week, five conservative justices—all male—limited the Biden administration’s authority to decide how and when to prosecute immigration cases. It was a blow to prosecutorial discretion.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Congressional Republicans Are Unhappy With Trump’s Homeland Security Purge
Nancy has already written two pieces today about President Trump’s purge at the Department of Homeland Security, but I also have a few things to say about this fiasco. For starters, the president botched the plan by announcing an illegal replacement for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. I could almost forgive Trump for this because […]
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The Democrats Should Concede Nothing on Border Wall
The president may force a Christmas government shutdown if he doesn’t get funding for his wall from the American taxpayers.
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Why Is Trump Hiring an Assistant He Just Fired?
A longtime Trump assistant fails a background check and is escorted off the White House grounds only to be hired to work on reelection campaign.
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Senate Showdown on DACA Set for Today
Here is what you need to know about the bills under consideration.
