Jonathan Blitzer

New York, United States

Staff Writer at The New Yorker

Staff writer @newyorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, from @penguinpress.

Articles

Trump Makes America’s Refugee Program a Tool of White Racial Grievance

6 days ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer

The chaos of Donald Trump’s Presidency often obscures its rank consistency. Only a few hours into his second term, Trump signed an executive order suspending the admission of refugees to the United States, something that he’d tried to do his first time in office. Twelve thousand people who had been cleared to come were stranded, their flights cancelled. A hundred and eighteen thousand others had been approved but didn’t yet have plane tickets.
Trump Makes America’s Refugee Program a Tool of White Racial Grievance

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Jonathan Blitzer

The President’s interest in the plight of Afrikaners seems to have begun with—what else?—segments on Fox News. The chaos of Donald Trump’s Presidency often obscures its rank consistency. Only a few hours into his second term, Trump signed an executive order suspending the admission of refugees to …
Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in US Courts

1 month ago | rsn.org | Jonathan Blitzer

Even as the Administration refuses to reveal the names of those it has deported under the Alien Enemies Act, a network of lawyers and advocates is fighting to keep their cases alive. Pedro Escobar Blanco, one of two hundred and thirty-eight Venezuelans deported by the Trump Administration to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador on March 15th, never met the lawyer who is representing him in U.S. immigration court. They haven’t spoken by phone or texted or communicated through an intermediary.
Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer

Pedro Escobar Blanco, one of two hundred and thirty-eight Venezuelans deported by the Trump Administration to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador on March 15th, never met the lawyer who is representing him in U.S. immigration court. They haven’t spoken by phone or texted or communicated through an intermediary. He almost certainly isn’t aware that he’s being represented at all.
Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer

Three years ago, in El Salvador, after the MS-13 gang killed eighty-seven people in a span of seventy-two hours, President Nayib Bukele called on his loyalists in the legislature to declare a “state of exception.” The government could arrest anyone it deemed suspicious, and those taken into custody lost their right to a legal defense.
Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jonathan Blitzer

1 hour agoWhat to do if you're a U.S. citizen and immigration authorities tell you to leave the countryU.S. immigration authorities issued a blunt warning in an unprecedented mass email to individuals living in the country on temporary protected status: “It is time for you to leave the United States.” Titled “Notice of Termination of Parole,” the email declared: “If you do not depart the United …7 hours agoThe fascist moment is here: Have mainstream liberals heard the alarm go off?
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests

1 month ago | rsn.org | Jonathan Blitzer

In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown. On March 12th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a press release about an “enhanced” operation that the agency had conducted the previous week in New Mexico. Forty-eight people were arrested in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Roswell, according to the government.
Trump and the Courts Have Abandoned Deportees

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jonathan Blitzer

“They’ve effectively disappeared.” A report on forty-eight people arrested by ICE in New Mexico, in early March—whose identities and whereabouts remain unknown. But, first, a breakdown of this week’s Supreme Court decisions on Trump’s most drastic immigration policies.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests

1 month 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.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Jonathan Blitzer

Share On March 12th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a press release about an “enhanced” operation that the agency had conducted the previous week in New Mexico. Forty-eight people were arrested in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Roswell, according to the government. Twenty of them had been “arrested or convicted of serious criminal offenses,” which included homicide, sexual assault, drug trafficking, and shoplifting.

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