How Kristi Noem turned the Department of Homeland Security into the administration’s most controversial instrument, lost control of it, and got fired for it — while the courts spent a year trying to stop what her agents were doing in the streets.
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Papers Are Never Enough
A border policy can be strict without being theatrical. What the United States is building now is something different: a system designed to make people feel that their legal status is always provisional, and that silence is the safest form of compliance.
The Green Card Was Supposed to Mean Something
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil did not happen in a legal vacuum. It happened because the administration found a tool old enough and vague enough to make it possible. Every lawful immigrant in America should understand what that tool is.
The War on Free Speech: How Trump’s Actions Are Pushing America Toward Authoritarianism
Banning the Associated Press from the White House and threatening students with deportation for protesting are not separate controversies. They are the same move, applied to different targets.