Jonathan Blitzer

One of the first & most alarming cases of the Trump Admin targeting Democrats is its prosecution of NJ Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, who faces up to 17 yrs in prison for allegedly assaulting ICE agents in her district. In this week's @newyorker.com I investigate: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

👀 A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reveal data that will show whether it has so dramatically tipped bond hearings against ICE detainees that they're now unconstitutional. Some notable fox-henhouse metaphors here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My Comment in this week's @newyorker.com: Trump's immigration agenda, which hinges on mass detention, has caused a humanitarian & legal crisis. Deaths in custody; abuse & neglect of detainees; detention w/o bond; judges' orders ignored. The list goes on... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My thoughts on the departure of Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary, @newyorker.com : www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

So many just stunning details in this piece by @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social. Read all the way to the end, which gets into the push now to denaturalize citizens. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

US Citizenship & Immigration Services is an agency most Americans rarely hear about. It administers the *legal* immigration system. Under Trump, the agency has turned into an enforcement tool in service of the broader crackdown. My latest @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

"A warrant signed by a judge who is independent of the executive branch is a constitutional safeguard that separates legitimate law enforcement from arbitrary government power." Former DHS General Counsels weigh in on the ICE memo flouting 4th Amendment: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

A reminder to journalists, and also...a reminder to MEMBERS OF CONGRESS!!

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Democrats now have 2 weeks to negotiate w Congressional Republicans on a set of measures to begin to impose checks on systematically abusive conduct by ICE & CBP. Here's a valuable primer on some things that shld be on the table. Via @andreaflores.bsky.social arosaflores.substack.com/p/how-congre...

My comment in this week's @newyorker.com is about an American nightmare two decades in the making. DHS agencies that have long operated with relative impunity are becoming the personal army of an authoritarian President. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg: It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

Vital reporting from Venezuela with a devastating view into how state repression has intensified following the US intervention: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/w...

This story - about a Democratic congresswoman charged with assault after an encounter at an immigrant detention facility - really makes clear how far Trump has weaponised the justice system. And how the US government can no longer be treated as a reliable source. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything." Important piece from @radleybalko.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

One of the first & most alarming cases of the Trump Admin targeting Democrats is its prosecution of NJ Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, who faces up to 17 yrs in prison for allegedly assaulting ICE agents in her district. In this week's @newyorker.com I investigate: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"The regime only gets tougher and harder line in circumstances like this, because now they're backed into a corner." Jonathan Blitzer and Tim Miller explain how U.S. saber-rattling and covert pressure gave the Maduro regime cover to escalate repression in Venezuela.

Losing the vocabulary to capture the grotesquerie we're witnessing.

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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Trump Wants in Venezuela @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social explains the various interests and factions at play in the Trump Administration’s strike against Venezuela. open.spotify.com/episode/766P...

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"free speech warriors"

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"Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fascinating, excellent reporting from Sarah Kinosian & Julia Symmes Cobb @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

🚨Guest hosting Today Explained this afternoon!! Digging into what's ~really behind Trump's escalation in Venezuela. First @alexhorton.bsky.social on the timeline and the WH's stated rationale…

Gift link The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Hi! We made a show for you about what’s been happening at immigration court: www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...

We’re back! S2 Ep.1 of “Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times is out.” @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social , staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses his recent article in the magazine, “Enemies of the State: How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.”

Just finished @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social's "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" and I'm blown away both by the mounds of research and the expert storytelling. If you want an in-depth and entertaining primer on the making of our migrant situation, this is the book.

These are very much worth reading 👇👇

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Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social reports on the Trump Administration’s recent vessel strikes in the Caribbean, and what they reveal about his broader agenda.

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. www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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.

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.

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

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. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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...

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/...

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"