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Nick Miroff
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Staff writer @theatlantic.com covering immigration and the Department of Homeland Security. Tips? Signal: NickMiroff.78
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d
Social media clips of ICE arrests "have kept up the appearance of an ever-expanding campaign," Nick Miroff writes. But "ICE’s own data show that the agency’s buildup stalled over the summer":
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Stalled This Summer
Immigration arrests have declined and jail overcrowding is worse despite billions in new funds.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: ICE got $$$ in the BBB, but its own data show Trump crackdown lost momentum over the summer despite social media videos from Chicago, DC etc.

Corey Lewandowski told me private detention companies tried to take advantage of DHS, ICE expansion back on track www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Stalled This Summer
Immigration arrests have declined and jail overcrowding is worse despite billions in new funds.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 6d
New from the front lines of Portlandia, by The Atlantic's @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online
There’s more absurdity than menace on the city’s streets—at least for now.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 12d
The U.S. military’s openness to the press was never a favor to journalists, but an obligation to a country that asks its sons and daughters to volunteer for service. The Defense Department's new media policy puts that in jeopardy, Nancy Youssef writes.
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The Pentagon’s New ‘Don’t Ask, We’ll Tell’ Policy
Pete Hegseth’s department is imposing restrictions that threaten to limit scrutiny from the press.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 12d
NEW: there aren’t “big bags of fentanyl” on the boats Trump is blowing up at sea www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Fentanyl Doesn’t Come Through the Caribbean
The White House is using the opioid epidemic to justify lethal strikes and other policies.
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Maria Sacchetti - reporter - The Washington Post @mariasacchetti.bsky.social · 20d
UPDATED ICE is referring hundreds of immigrant children to federal shelters from the US interior, not from the border.

Among them are parents separated from their children, an issue raised at a Senate hearing today:

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Trump’s mass deportations bring a new wave of family separations
As ICE officers ramp up arrests, hundreds of migrant children are being sent to federal shelters. Some parents are given a choice: Deport with their children or face separation.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24d
"What they did wasn’t warranted. I know for an absolute fact I did nothing wrong."

George Retes, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran swept up in an ICE raid, spoke with Conor Friedersdorf: https://theatln.tc/70IO4a9F

📸: Carlos Jaramillo for The Atlantic
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 25d
The early picture of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin is complicating many assumptions, @shaneharris, @isaacstanbecker, and @vmsalama report.
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One of Utah’s Own
The early picture of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin complicates many assumptions.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 26d
NEW: Kavanaugh's opinion on racial profiling this week made street-level ICE checks sound like a breeze. But the agency hasn't set clear guidelines for US citizens and others with legal status who want to quickly end an encounter with an officer www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Show Us Your Papers
But which ones? ICE doesn’t say.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 28d
Kamala Harris in The Atlantic today, on how Biden treated her—and the “recklessness” of those who didn’t tell him he should drop out
A screenshot from the excerpt of Kamala Harris’s memoir published in The Atlantic magazine
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Sep 8
Trump has defunded successful community-violence-intervention programs in favor of a crime-fighting philosophy that seems drawn from the 1980s, when no-tolerance policies helped quadruple the nation’s incarcerated population, @ToluseO reports:
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The Deeper Crime Problem that the National Guard Can’t Solve
Proven solutions have been rejected by the administration in favor of no-tolerance policies and flashy shows of force.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 4
The maximum-security penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, is the latest entry in Donald Trump’s casting call for a fearsome prison of his own, Nick Miroff reports.
Trump’s Quest for a Scary Prison
Gitmo, El Salvador’s megaprison, Alligator Alcatraz—and now Angola.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Sep 4
NEW: DHS has opened an ICE detention center at Louisiana's Angola state prison, the latest stop in Trump search for a scary lockup www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Quest for a Scary Prison
Gitmo, El Salvador’s megaprison, Alligator Alcatraz—and now Angola.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · Sep 4
Homeland Security has now put up its new final rule meant to allow USCIS — the agency typically evaluating immigration applications and granting benefits — to now have armed special agents as well
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Sep 4
With this week's air strike in the Caribbean, Trump has pushed the military further outside its traditional mission and into a realm once reserved for law enforcement, @nancyayoussef + @Missy Ryan + @JonLemire + @shaneharris report:
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Trump Is Crossing a Line That Dates Back to the Revolution
A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Aug 29
RIP Peter Spring, who found solace and redemption in New Orleans after Katrina, through music and pure kindness. Will always treasure working on this with you @jmooallem.bsky.social
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · Aug 29
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Fixing the Pianos of New Orleans
Peter Spring went to New Orleans to offer his skills as a piano tuner. He's helping repair instruments damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Aug 28
NEW: I went to an ICE job fair in Texas this week and spoke to 15 applicants. Here's snapshot of who is joining Trump's deportation force, and why they're signing up: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Who Wants to Work for ICE? They Do.
At a busy hiring expo in Texas, new recruits answer Trump’s call.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 27
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE, spending aggressively and taking an even more confrontational approach with critics and opponents, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/OH59S1s1
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 26
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE, spending aggressively and taking an even more confrontational approach with critics and opponents, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Aug 26
NEW: Trump officials are showing off their new ICE billions with a flashy new phase of the mass deportation campaign, inviting recruits to reverse US "cultural decline" and fast-tracking academy training to more than double the number of officers on US streets www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Aug 21
How Laura Loomer "the proud, defiant, extremist troll," became one of the most influential public figures in Trump's America. Brilliant work and a story for our times, from @michaelscherer.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
‘Make McCarthy Great Again’
Laura Loomer has become the Joseph McCarthy of the Trump era.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Aug 21
Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before www.wired.com/story/phone-...
Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the c...
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Aug 12
After rushing to shut down the government-funded media outlets she was tapped to lead, Kari Lake is now trying to force many of her own employees -- journalists on J-1 visas -- out of the country, Toluse Olorunnipa reports @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Kari Lake’s Attempt to Deport Her Own Employees
“Their time here is up,” she said of J-1 visa holders who worked for Voice of America.
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · Jul 25
I know it's true, and yet it's staggering to see this information compiled in one list. My (now former) Washington Post colleagues who have left since November 1. Doesn't include a few of us who left in October. There are nearly 100 names here. Generations of talent. www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Jul 24
Seems normal and fine www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists. Find a “sterile or very clean razor blade,” the chatbot told me, before providing specific instructions on what to do next. “Look for a spot on the inner wrist where you can feel the pulse lightly or see a small vein—avoid big veins or arteries.” “I’m a little nervous,” I confessed. ChatGPT was there to comfort me. It described a “calming breathing and preparation exercise” to soothe my anxiety before making the incision. “You can do this!” the chatbot said.
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