Nick Miroff

2 days ago | theatlantic.com | Nick Miroff

The other night, while watching a baseball game, I saw my first ad for self-deportation. One minute Shohei Ohtani was at the plate and then suddenly there was Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, looking stern and urging immigrants to self-deport using the administration’s new app, CBP Home. “Do what’s right,” Noem advised. “Leave now.”The taxpayer-funded ad had started like a campaign commercial, praising President Donald Trump for locking down the southern border.

2 weeks ago | aila.org | Jeff Brumley |Nick Miroff |Avery Lotz |Tom Latchem

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2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Nick Miroff

During a lull in the chanting outside the federal building targeted by protesters in downtown Los Angeles this week, I walked up behind a hooded young man wearing a mask and carrying a can of spray paint. He began to deface the marble facade in big black letters. WHEN TYRANNY BECOMES LAW, REBELLION BECOMES DUTY—THOMAS JEFFERSON, he wrote, adding his tag, SMO, in smaller font.

2 weeks ago | editorandpublisher.com | Nick Miroff |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2025 12:00 am This climate of fear is bad for journalism. It’s bad for democracy. It’s bad for the federal government. It’s just in bad faith.” The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press previously produced a tip sheet for journalists, clarifying immigration-related data, documents and other public records they can request from various federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act. In April 2025, the Committee also published a three-part “Immigration...

3 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Nick Miroff

After insisting again and again that they would not bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States, Trump-administration officials flew the 29-year-old Maryland man back from El Salvador today to face a grand-jury criminal indictment in Tennessee. Abrego Garcia’s return doesn’t mean he can go free.