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By ten o’clock, as the hearing started, the room was unusually crowded. Berner’s supporters from the labor movement had turned out, expecting a showdown. The exchange went as predicted for half of the hearing, with the first five Republicans grilling Berner about her time with the union. But when it was Ted Cruz’s turn, two hours into the proceedings, he didn’t address Berner at all. “Mr. Mangi,” he began. “Last week, the American people were horrified to watch the testimony of the presidents of…
11 months ago
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Last December, while top-ranking officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security were meeting with a small group of senators to negotiate the asylum bill, I sat down with the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. “We’re at a threshold moment,” he told me. At the time, record numbers of migrants were arriving at the southern border; the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, was busing tens of thousands of them to Democratic cities; and Congress had recently rejected a…
10 months ago
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A couple of weeks ago, at the White House, President Joe Biden announced the most consequential act of immigration relief in more than a decade. He gave roughly half a million undocumented spouses of citizens a path to permanent legal status, on the condition that they have lived here since at least 2014 and pass a criminal-background check. “I refuse to believe that to secure our border we have to walk away from being American,” Biden said. “The Statue of Liberty is not some relic of American…
9 months ago
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The Center for Renewing America is one of roughly two dozen right-wing groups that have emerged in Washington since Trump left office. What unites them is a wealthy network based on Capitol Hill called the Conservative Partnership Institute, which many in Washington regard as the next Trump Administration in waiting. C.P.I.’s list of personnel and affiliates includes some of Trump’s most fervent backers: Meadows is a senior partner; Stephen Miller, Trump’s top adviser on immigration, runs an ass…
9 months ago
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Republicans have attacked the Vice-President as the Biden Administration’s “border czar,” but her remit was always to address the root causes farther south.
9 months ago
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At the Democratic National Convention, the sense of relief was as overwhelming as the general euphoria—but the campaign against Donald Trump has only just begun.
8 months ago
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For years, the former President has claimed that undocumented immigrants vote illegally. That fiction is now the explicit position of the Party establishment.
7 months ago
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The daily stream of racism and mendacity has had a numbing effect. But the question of what Trump might actually do is a prospect that voters cannot afford to ignore.
6 months ago
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Biden could still pursue additional protections for many of them—so far, he appears unwilling to do so.
4 months ago
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The President is recasting migration as a form of “invasion,” broadening his already expansive powers and making anyone in the U.S. who’s undocumented a potential target.
3 months ago
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The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning.
about 2 months ago
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