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1 week ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer |“Everyone Who

When ICE makes an arrest or stages a raid in New Mexico, Marcela Díaz, the executive director of Somos un Pueblo Unido, a Santa Fe-based advocacy organization, usually hears about it. “We organize in several rural communities, very tight-knit communities where everyone knows each other and knows their churches and neighbors,” she told me.

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer |“Everyone Who

Throughout the fall and winter, Alexis Romero de Hernández struggled to accept a grim new routine. She lived in a small town in central Venezuela called Capacho, with her husband and the younger of her two sons. Her eldest, a thirty-one-year-old makeup artist named Andry José Hernández Romero, was being held in an immigration jail in San Diego. He called her every few days, usually late in the afternoon, to reassure her that he was safe. The calls would last about a minute.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer |“Everyone Who

The Wall Ranch, in Eagle Pass, Texas, occupies a thousand acres of scrubland along the Mexican border. Several times a day, freight trains coming from Mexico stop on the southern edge of the property, where a large X-ray machine scans the cars to check if people are hiding inside. One morning in early January, the ranch’s owner, Martín Wall, a forty-five-year-old cattleman and a seventh-generation Texan, showed me around.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer |“Everyone Who

The military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has long occupied a blighted corner of the American legal system. Multiple Administrations have tried, and failed, to close the facility, which opened in 2002 and at one point held nearly eight hundred terrorism suspects, commonly called “the worst of the worst” because of their purported ties to the attacks of 9/11. Many of them spent at least a decade there without facing actual charges or having a trial.

Jan 24, 2025 | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer |“Everyone Who

In the months before the election, Donald Trump’s allies and advisers repeatedly claimed that, if he won a second term, his first day in office would immediately overwhelm the efforts of any organized opposition. “The A.C.L.U. won’t know where to sue first,” one of them told me.