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  1. immigration
    Trump Demands Right to Detain Migrant Children IndefinitelyIt’s mostly symbolic, since the judge who set the 20-day limit on detention of children is unlikely to approve it, but the new policy sounds tough.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. immigration
    Truck Rams Crowd of ICE Protesters Outside Rhode Island PrisonThe incident, which sent five people to the hospital, was caught on video.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  3. racism
    Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses*Ken Cuccinelli has a vision for immigration that privileges people who’ll enrich America. But for him and Trump, that has always meant white people.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  4. immigration
    Ken Cuccinelli Suggests MAGA-Friendly Edits to Statue of Liberty Inscription“Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  5. immigration
    Trump Moves Ahead With Ban on Public Assistance for Legal ImmigrantsIt’s part of a broader assault on immigration and on the social safety net by Team Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. orange county
    Republicans Are Now Outnumbered in Conservative Bastion of Orange CountyRonald Reagan once called Orange County, California, “where all good Republicans go to die.” Now demographics and Trump are turning it blue.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. mass shootings
    Trump’s Plan for Stopping Anti-Hispanic Terrorism: Fewer HispanicsBefore abandoning mention of gun control altogether, Trump suggested he’d consider it — as long as Democrats supported the GOP’s immigration agenda.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  8. steve king
    Iowa Democrat Aims to Knock Off Steve King, If Republicans Don’t Do It FirstJ.D. Scholten nearly beat King in the 2018 midterms. If the old demagogue survives his primary, Scholten will be waiting.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. family separation
    The Trump Administration Hasn’t Stopped Separating Migrant FamiliesThe U.S. has taken 911 child migrants from their parents or guardians since last June. Officials insist they are protecting the minors from abuse.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. vision 2020
    Trump’s Hate Offensive Could Turn Off White Working-Class WomenThere’s fresh evidence that the women in Trump’s key demographic don’t care for racism and divisiveness, even if they agree with his policies.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. the national interest
    Democratic Progressives and Centrists Are Both Committing Strategic SuicideActivists think the insiders are pathetic. Insiders think the activists are crazy. They’re both right.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. immigration
    An 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Has Been in Immigration Custody for Nearly a MonthThe 18-year-old has a birth certificate and social security number, but that hasn’t been enough to secure his release.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  13. immigration
    Trump Moves to Make It Easier to Deport Immigrants Without a Hearing“Send them back” isn’t just a slogan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. intelligencer chats
    When You’ve Lost Tom Friedman, Have You Lost America?Intelligencer staffers discuss whether Democrats are moving too far to the left on immigration.
  15. polls
    Polls: Voters Are Cool With Trump’s Deportation Raids, But Not His Racist TweetsNew survey data suggests overt racism is a loser for the president, but rounding up and deporting thousands of immigrants might not be.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. foreign interests
    Trump’s Unlawful Asylum Policy Is a Jab at MexicoTrump needs our southern neighbors’ help to fix the migrant crisis – so he’s forcing them into illegal agreements that come with unmanageable burdens.
    By Jonah Shepp
  17. migrant crisis
    The Flaw in Trump’s Intimidation-Based Immigration StrategyThreatening painful and controversial actions, like ICE raids, may work in the short term, but eventually he’ll have to deliver — or admit defeat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. immigration
    New Trump Rule Would Virtually End Asylum for Central AmericansThe rule, which is sure to face legal challenges, would not allow anyone who has passed through another country to claim asylum in the U.S.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  19. migrant crisis
    Lindsey Graham: ‘I Don’t Care’ if Migrants Stay in Detention for ‘400 Days’After visiting two migrant detention centers in Texas, the South Carolina senator was not filled with sympathy.
    By Matt Stieb
  20. vision 2020
    Elizabeth Warren Unveils a Sane, Humane Immigration PlanIt has a roughly zero-percent chance of getting through our nation’s paranoid, cruel Congress any time soon.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. racism
    Tucker Carlson’s Latest Attack on Ilhan Omar Is a Pack of Racist LiesThe Fox News host is living proof that right-wing political correctness has become dangerous for this country.
    By Eric Levitz
  22. give me shelter
    Trump’s Rape of America, and Other Greek TragediesSearching the classics to make sense of asylum, hubris, and democracy itself.
    By Mimi Kramer
  23. interesting times
    Andrew Sullivan: Democratic Candidates Are in a Bubble on ImmigrationThe debates proved that they are fundamentally out of touch with the difficult realities of the issue.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  24. so you want to be president
    Julián Castro Is an Underrated CandidateAt the first Democratic primary debates, the former mayor of San Antonio proved that he deserves more attention than he’s getting.
    By Sarah Jones
  25. border crisis
    House, Senate, Trump Locked in Three-Way Battle Over Border Spending BillTrump’s threatening vetoes, Senate Republicans are issuing ultimatums, and time’s running out as migrant children suffer.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. vision 2020
    The Tyranny of the Unwoke White Swing VoterThe fate of our republic lies with the 10 percent of white working-class voters who still haven’t decided which team they’re on.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. immigration
    The Story Behind the Viral Photo of a Drowned Migrant Father and ToddlerThe photo has been compared to a 2015 image of a drowned Syrian boy that drew attention to the refugee crisis.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  28. migrant crisis
    The Trump Administration’s Erratic Reaction to the Migrant Child CrisisIt’s hard to keep up with Team Trump’s actions denying or evading the responsibility to give kids decent treatment.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. migrant crisis
    With Trump’s Migrant Camps, the History We Should Fear Repeating Is Our OwnAOC’s invocation of Nazi concentration camps was legitimate. But the most apt precedents for the crisis at our border were born in the USA.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. interesting times
    Andrew Sullivan: Donald Trump and the Art of the LieHe is a con man of surpassing brilliance and conviction — and that is a profound danger to our democracy.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  31. migrant crisis
    Fall in Coffee Prices Is Fueling Guatemalan Migration to the U.S.: ReportCoffee prices have dropped about 60 percent since 2015, accelerating the migration of Guatemalan farmers to the U.S.
    By Matt Stieb
  32. interesting times
    Andrew Sullivan: What Democrats Can Learn From Steve BannonAround the world, liberal parties are winning by getting serious about immigration. When will Biden, Warren & Co. get the memo?
    By Andrew Sullivan
  33. immigration
    Trump to Tap Anti-Immigrant Crusader Ken Cuccinelli for Homeland Security PostThe former Virginia attorney general is part of Trump pushing DHS in a “tougher direction.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  34. immigration
    Kris Kobach to Trump: I Can’t Be an Effective Adviser Without 24/7 Jet AccessThe GOP’s “populist” anti-immigration guru told the White House he won’t serve his country unless he’s given an on-call plane, other perks.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. immigration
    Leave Change Behind at Airport Security? It Could Soon Fund Border SecurityA DHS proposal suggests sending $3 million of loose change down to the border.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  36. immigration
    Trump: E-Verify Would Make It Too Hard to Hire Undocumented WorkersTrump admits he’s fine with undocumented workers “taking” American jobs — he just wants those workers to have no rights and live in constant fear.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. jared kushner
    Jared Kushner Has Crafted a Lose-Lose Compromise on ImmigrationThe man who was supposed to unite the Israelis and Palestinians behind a peace plan can’t even unite Republicans on immigration.
    By Eric Levitz
  38. immigration
    TSA Is Sending Hundreds of Employees, Including Air Marshals, to the BorderIn internal emails, DHS acknowledged that the move comes with “some risk.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  39. immigration
    Democrats Are Developing a Clear Response to Trump on MigrantsWith seven Senate Democrats running for president on board with this alternative to Trump’s immigration policy, the bill could shape the 2020 debate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. president trump
    The President’s ‘Jokes’ About Shooting Migrants Are No Laughing MatterTrump describes migrants as invaders, and suggests that shooting them would be “very effective.” But migrants have no power, so the GOP laughs it off.
    By Eric Levitz
  41. just asking questions
    Daniel Okrent on the Very Familiar Immigration Panic 100 Years AgoIn his new book The Guarded Gate, he looks at a 30-year campaign — aided by elite social scientists — to keep minorities out of America.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  42. xenophobia
    Watch President Trump Laugh Over a Comment About Shooting Migrants“How do you stop these people?” Trump asked. An audience member had an idea. “Shoot them,” he yelled, causing the president to laugh.
    By Matt Stieb
  43. immigration
    Cotton Gets to the Right of the Trump Administration on ImmigrationThe administration is more generous about temporary guest-worker visas — like those used at some Trump properties — than about immigrants generally.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. immigration
    Trump Steps Up Petty Harassment of Asylum-Seeking MigrantsNew fees, deadlines, and work-permit prohibitions will make life harder for asylum seekers, without necessarily stemming the tide of migrants.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. immigration
    The Trump-Loving Town and Its Favorite Undocumented ImmigrantThe citizens of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, embraced Alex Garcia — and now they want him back from the church basement where he’s been hiding.
    By Alex Kotlowitz
  46. kids these days
    What Is ‘Generation Z’ Like? Watch the Spelling Bee to Find OutBy studying spelling bee competitors, Northwestern professor Shalini Shankar has started to create a portrait of the coming generational cohort.
    By Malcolm Harris
  47. border crisis
    FBI Arrests Far-Right Militia Leader Detaining Migrants at GunpointLarry Mitchell Hopkins was once arrested for impersonating an officer. His vigilante group, United Constitutional Patriots, appears to be at it again.
    By Matt Stieb
  48. xenophobia
    Report: Stephen Miller Intervened to Deport Individual MigrantsTrump’s most xenophobic senior aide has reportedly contacted mid-level DHS officials in a ploy to send individual asylum seekers across the border.
    By Matt Stieb
  49. war on immigrants
    USCIS: Immigrants Linked to Legal Weed May Be Morally Unfit for CitizenshipThe Trump administration’s latest barrier to citizenship rejects the views of a bipartisan majority of Americans.
    By Chas Danner
  50. immigration
    Barr Decision May Keep Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers Locked UpThe AG’s ruling to deny bond to many asylum seekers is consistent with the president’s recent claim that the process is a “con job.”
    By Matt Stieb
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