deportations
Dodging Due Process
The U.S. has quietly deported a number of migrants to countries they have no ties to, where they face indefinite detention under secret agreements that may bypass local law. The transfers are part of a system that outsources tough immigration cases, trapping deportees in legal limbo far from home.
Chipocalypse Now?
Trump’s meme declaring war on Chicago has shocked liberals. But what could be more purgative, more exhilaratingly American to his base than avenging the nation with racial warfare?
Partners in Crime
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has earned an invitation to the White House for his spectacular, performative incarceration of U.S. deportees. The highly curated images of the transfer are advertising for the services of the Salvadoran prison system, for sale to the Trump administration and beyond.