Nick Miroff

Donald Trump won big in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley in 2024—but now the votes of many Latinos are in flux, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. He spoke with men in the electorally crucial area about their frustrations and the region’s likely political realignment:

NEW: I drove around the Rio Grande Valley talking to candidates and swing voters who backed Trump last time, especially men. Story @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump says that his ICE crackdown is behind falling crime rates—a claim contradicted by his own administration’s data, Jack Rodriquez-Vars and @nickmiroff.bsky.social report.

NEW: Trump says the steep drop in violent crime is the result of his immigration crackdown. But a comparison of FBI data and ICE stats doesn’t show that. More @theatlantic.com with Jack Rodriquez-Vars www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Phenomenal reporting + a heartbreaking story by @caitlindickerson.bsky.social about the children who remain behind when their parents are deported www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Exclusive: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was hired last year and was not wearing his body camera, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/S5VS6fih

Exclusive: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was hired last year and was not wearing his body camera, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

SCOOP: the ICE officer who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin wasn't wearing his body cam. The officer is a new recruit hired by the agency last year 🔽 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Hunted by ICE, some Haitians in the U.S. are fleeing across the northern border to seek safety in Canada, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. He travels the secret routes through forests that some are taking to escape deportation:

NEW sneaking across the border through the forest into Canada has become a last resort for Haitians who have lost TPS and fear ICE arrest and deportation. Our story from Quebec @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Don't miss this wild story from the "woollier fringes of America’s public lands" by @theatlantic.com's Josh Partlow www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Exclusive: Prior to his resignation, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll took his concerns about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership directly to President Trump, Nancy A. Youssef, Missy Ryan, and Michael Scherer report:

This year’s El Niño cycle is likely to be the strongest ever recorded—and its already-increased water temperatures could have irrevocable effects, Joshua Partlow reports.

SCOOP: after 2 fatal shootings in July, ICE quietly changed use of deadly force rules to keep officers from returning to street until they’re cleared by investigators. Story @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

EXCLUSIVE: ICE has enacted a new rule keeping officers involved in deadly-force incidents off the streets until the completion of an investigation, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. Officers had previously been allowed to return to their job in as few as three days. theatln.tc/QACHhjbW

In Tapachula, @theatlantic.com's Kevin Sieff finds a city that "looks and feels the way towns in northern Mexico along the U.S. border once did—a dumping ground for those expelled from the United States and a gathering place for those snagged on their way north." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

A Mexican influencer was killed last week in Culiacán, a city in Sinaloa that had momentarily flickered back to life amid a bloody cartel turf war. Kevin Sieff, who was nearby when it happened, reports on the battle for Sinaloa and a surge of violence:

NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Three years ago, DHS created an independent statistics office—but its director just quit. Despite agency pledges for greater transparency, Trump’s immigration crackdown “continues in a fog of fake numbers and statistical subterfuge,” @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:

NEW the gap between the importance of immigration in our national politics and the woeful availability of ICE data has grown even wider with the resignation of DHS’s top statistician. An issue that unites advocates and restrictionists alike. Story @TheAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Newly freed from prison, Tina Peters is dining with Donald Trump, planning a girls’ trip with Roseanne Barr, and making election denial into a full-time job, @yvonnewingett reports www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The push to shut down ICE facilities in blue states has potential to backfire for immigration activists, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. He explores why the keep-ICE-out approach has downsides that Democrats rarely acknowledge:

Markwayne Mullin, Donald Trump’s improbable choice to lead DHS, was brought in to restore normalcy to the president’s immigration enforcement—but Mullin is quickly learning that normalcy isn’t what Trump’s base wants, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

A luxury development planned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on an Albanian island has spurred an international anti-Trump uprising, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/qKeOrp4V

Mullin swears that he and Trump are “on the same page” on ICE. “But for a secretary whose views on the department he leads are still vague, the phrasing posed a question: What page are they on, exactly?” Essential reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Markwayne Mullin, Donald Trump’s improbable choice to lead DHS, was brought in to restore normalcy to the president’s immigration enforcement—but Mullin is quickly learning that normalcy isn’t what Trump’s base wants, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW: our deep dive @theatlantic.com on Markwayne Mullin’s improbable journey from rural Cherokee Country to the top of MAGA world and Trump’s mass deportation campaign www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump overruled ICE’s memo telling officers to suspend vehicle stops after pushback from the MAGA base left the president worried about looking weak, officials told @jonlemire.bsky.social and @nickmiroff.bsky.social.

The ICE officer involved in the fatal shooting of a man in Maine was hired by the agency this year and has worked in law enforcement since 2017, a senior official tells @nickmiroff.bsky.social.

NEW Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed amid a shift in ICE “targeted enforcement” tactics that has officers doing more vehicle stops—and shooting. ICE’s ERO division lacks a vehicle pursuit policy & veteran officials told me officers need more training www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the latest person to be killed by ICE agents shooting into cars. @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports on the incident in Houston and on immigration officials’ increased targeting of people in vehicles:

Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlantic’s August issue, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social explores the reading collapse—and its effects on civilization: theatln.tc/Q0QJpF8U

This year’s July 4 fireworks show on the National Mall will have the kind of security usually reserved for presidential inaugurations and Super Bowls, @nickmiroff.bsky.social, Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Shane Harris report.

Before President Trump insisted on changing the color of the Reflecting Pool, he was fixated on another paint job, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:

Before President Trump insisted on changing the color of the Reflecting Pool, he was fixated on another paint job, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:

Before President Trump insisted on changing the color of the Reflecting Pool, he was fixated on another paint job, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:

America’s interest in talking about climate change is at an ebb, Joshua Partlow reports. He visited one Oregon town to learn more of the country’s ambivalence:

At the Enhanced Games, where athletes were encouraged to dope, the sports seemed less like the main event and more like a Trojan horse for a broader business—selling supplements to the masses, @elcush.bsky.social reports from Las Vegas:

Today, a judge dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In 2025, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reported on how the Trump administration tried to build its case by cutting deals with felons and driving out federal prosecutors, rather than admitting it had made a mistake.

SCOOP: Markwayne Mullin met with airline and travel executives at DHS last week and told them he's serious about plan to pressure sanctuary cities by cutting CBP screening at intl airports after World Cup. Execs have warned economic impact would be "devastating" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Secretary of Homeland Security has likened the World Cup security challenge to protecting “78 Super Bowls.” And the U.S., he made clear, isn’t entirely ready for any of them, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

The Secretary of Homeland Security has likened the World Cup security challenge to protecting “78 Super Bowls.” And the U.S., he made clear, isn’t entirely ready for any of them, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW: Trump is tired of the Iran war, but Iran is not, @jonlemire.bsky.social reports:

For Adam Silver, who leads a business valued at roughly $200 billion, media engagements are rare. Tim Alberta convinced the bubble-wrapped NBA commissioner to sit down with him as the league entered a moment of institutional crisis:

In an Ohio Republican primary, former ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan’s candidacy will test how much the mass-deportation message can still drive GOP voters to the polls when Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW Security at the correspondents’ dinner was largely successful—but the attack revealed vulnerabilities that can no longer be ignored, @shaneharris.bsky.social argues: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Thomas Massie is unafraid of Donald Trump, and the Kentucky Republican thinks he can embolden more people in his party to stand up to the president—if he can get reelected, @russellberman.bsky.social reports.

Montana Democrats thought an independent could help them take back the Senate—then their own party started fighting back, @michaelscherer.bsky.social reports.

This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...