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Absolute blockbuster report from @aflores w an early look at unpublished DHS IG report. At the peak of the family separation crisis in spring/summer of 2018, DHS officials insisted that

We're at DefCon1 levels of *gross mismanagement* @DHSgov at this point, where each day brings another massive scandal. So many of these scandals are unfolding at once, in real time,

There’s obviously been a rash of new Administration action against immigration. The move against foreign students & asylum seekers as well as the impending re-cancellation of DACA: these are not

Update from Guatemala, via @Cespina_elP: 65 deportees arrived in Guatemala City on 5/13, including 3 who tested positive despite assurances from U.S. government that everyone on board had been tested

This @latimes piece captures something pretty fundamental about Trump, Stephen Miller, and WH immigration policy. *Step 1*: The President understands his actions in the most basic sense ("I'm suspending immigration

When I was reporting my @NewYorker profile of Stephen Miller, months before the Covid crisis, the overwhelming sense among WH & DHS sources was that Trump Admin was gearing up