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Jonathan Blitzer

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Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · Sep 8

My latest piece, in this week's @newyorker.com, is the story of what happens when the government declares war on an entire population based on little more than fear, confusion, and racial animus. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Enemies of the State

How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’s shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war in Gaza.

Why Israel and Hamas Might Finally Have a Deal

How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’ shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 6d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 6d

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Ald. Jessie Fuentes handcuffed by federal agents as ICE crackdown escalates in Chicago - Windy City Times

Federal agents handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) and threatened to arrest her Oct. 3 at Humboldt Park Health. The agents, who Fuentes said appeared to be with Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 8d

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 9d

A federal judge in El Paso has ordered the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration rights activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.

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Judge’s order for the release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 10d

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’

WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

www.wbez.org

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10d

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 9d

Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · 9d

“Inner cities are a big part of war. I will never hesitate to protect our people from the horrible plague that is taking place from within.”

Trump, justifying domestic military action, tells Pentagon leaders to ‘handle’ the ‘enemy from within’

The president suggested “dangerous” American cities should be used as Pentagon “training grounds” during a dark and winding 72-minute speech.

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 10d

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Alabama Construction Site Raids - Institute for Justice

Earning an honest living is fundamental to being an American. What’s deeply un-American is the government using masked agents to harass hard-working Americans at work. […]

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10d

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 10d

Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another?

In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10d

New — DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs responds to ICE shoving a photojournalist to the ground, leading him to be escorted out in a neck brace by medics.

Says nothing on whether injuring the press violates ICE standards, nor if the officer will face any repercussions.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 10d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 10d

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 10d

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/29/j...

Detained immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra says she feels ‘vulnerable’ 6 months after arrest

Attorneys for Denver immigrant-rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra filed a renewed motion seeking her release from detention Monday, arguing that her six-month imprisonment violated her constitution…

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11d

A good samaritan and community watch member were brutally arrested while documenting a Border Patrol raid at a Home Depot, one was hospitalized while the other was detained for eight hours.

By Izzy Ramirez

The full story: lataco.com/feds-injure-...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 11d

First review of my new book LONDON FALLING, from Kirkus. At a moment when every day feels like a month and every month feels like a year, April 7 is still a very long way off. But the book is available for pre-order now. 🙏

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats

Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 12d

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.

He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”

“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.

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Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’

Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 12d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

79. American citizen.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13d

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 13d

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

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