Jonathan Blitzer

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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?

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.