Nick Miroff

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.

Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost

DHS is celebrating an ICE hiring spree that officials say achieved a “120% Manpower Increase.” But @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports that most of those new hires are not ready to be deployed. theatln.tc/Iggj1gnq

The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push Trump officials are touting 12,000 new hires in four months. Getting them onto U.S. streets may take longer.

NEW: Training for new deportation officers at the ICE academy has been cut to 42 days. Not much time to practice de-escalation tactics www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

Betting money puts the odds of constitutional collapse in the United States at about one in 25. Armed with AI doomsday preppers have begun to game out what happens if Trump seeks a third term. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Washington Post demands government return materials seized from reporter The Post demanded in a court filing Wednesday that federal law enforcement officials return electronic devices the government seized from a staff reporter’s home.

"The outrageous seizure" of @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's records "chills speech, cripples reporting, and inflicts irreparable harm." Anything less than immediate return "would license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump Exhaustion Syndrome Americans can’t seem to keep up.

NEW “Trump Derangement Syndrome, in many ways, has been replaced by Trump Exhaustion Syndrome: The populace notes the latest indignity, and then returns to business as usual," @ashleyrparker.bsky.social writes of the president's first year back in office www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

‘Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea’ Two decades after its founding, the department has become what its critics feared.

After 9/11, George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security to prevent future terror strikes. @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports on how DHS shifted from defending the country against foreign terrorists to deploying agents on American streets:

‘Abolish ICE’ Is Back It’s making some Democrats anxious.

NEW Calls to ‘Abolish ICE’ are back, and some Democrats don’t like it, via @elainegodfrey.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

‘Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea’ Two decades after its founding, the department has become what its critics feared.

“Terrorism is such a powerful label, @tomwarrickac.bsky.social told me. “Applying that to Renee Good just defies the average American’s understanding of what that term ought to mean.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

From Stopping Osama bin Laden to Killing Renee Good Two decades after its founding, the Department of Homeland Security has become exactly what its critics feared.

NEW: How the Department of Homeland Security, founded to prevent another 9/11 terrorist attack, has turned into the partisan political tool its critics always feared www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Sacrifice of the Danes After September 11, Denmark fought alongside its ally. The families of fallen soldiers have a message for Trump.

“We have done so much for America”: Denmark fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now, as Trump eyes Greenland, the families of fallen soldiers have a message for him. Don’t miss this one from @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social @theatlantic.com
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Sheahan's launch ad is up and she takes credit for "deporting over 2.5 million illegal aliens," which is not even remotely true.

ICE removals are ~400k since Trump took office.

Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable. A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.

More on Sheahan's tenure at ICE here @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Madison Sheahan, the 28-year-old former political aide to Kristi Noem who was installed as ICE deputy director in March, is stepping down, per memo to staff. Sheahan is preparing a run for Congress in Ohio, two current officials told me.

Hannah Natanson is an extraordinary reporter, writer and human being. If you haven't read her story from December about the work she's been doing, you should. Sharing with a gift link: wapo.st/4b0PjIG

The Terrible Optics of ICE Enforcement Are Fueling a Trump Immigration Backlash The president was elected, in part, on a pledge to crack down on immigration. But he may be overinterpreting his mandate.

New polls show support for ICE sinking even lower after Good's killing. A long-running problem for the agency, well known to veteran officials, is that most Americans tend to recoil when they see what street-level immigration enforcement actually looks like www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Breathtaking Week of Pure Trump Id Military success in Venezuela has emboldened the president to flex his power even more.

Trump has been emboldened

Despite his low poll numbers, the president and his advisers believe that the Venezuela strike reignited his political momentum - and underscored the lack of concrete limits on his ability to wield power at home and abroad www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

TOMORROW: Webcast w/ our Doris Meissner, Muzaffar Chishti, @colleenputzlkav.bsky.social & @kathleenbush.bsky.social, along with @nickmiroff.bsky.social of @theatlantic.com, to assess the immigration actions taken during the 1st year of the 2nd Trump term

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Anger, Protests and Questions Follow ICE Shooting | KQED We talk about the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis and what it might mean for Trump's immigration agenda and the future of ICE.

🎙️ON AIR:

We're talking to journalists @nickmiroff.bsky.social and @msepic.bsky.social and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins about what the fatal shooting of Renee Good might mean for the future of ICE.

❓What questions do you have about the president's immigration agenda?

📻 Listen:

Medical treatment, necessary or not, can be a way for officers to buy some time to collect themselves before having to face internal investigators. And for Ross, who was seriously injured during the dragging incident in June, it was not his first use of force investigation.

After a use of force incident of this gravity, an officer is required speak with ICE internal affairs (OPR) within 72 hours. Research shows that use of force incidents of this kind can be so stressful and disorienting that it typically takes 48 hours for nerves to settle and memory to return.

From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds Frazzled agents, quick triggers, and a motor-powered protest movement are creating a uniquely dangerous moment on U.S. streets.

ICE officer Ross would have gone to the hospital for a mandatory blood test after shooting Renee Good, in addition to whatever treatment he needed.

After our story published Friday, one ICE veteran told me about another reason officers tend to seek medical care. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds Frazzled agents, quick triggers, and a motor-powered protest movement are creating a uniquely dangerous moment on U.S. streets.

NEW On the streets of blue cities like Minneapolis that the front lines of resistance to Trump & his deportation campaign, protesters face jumpy feds and a volatile mix of vehicles, guns, cell phone cameras and masks www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Deadly Force on a Frozen Street Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a dark turn in Minneapolis.

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE officer appears destined to aggravate the nation’s already-raw divisions over immigration enforcement, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

The Wrath of Stephen Miller The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy

Our profile on The Wrath of Stephen Miller—the man who is the pulsing human id of a president who is already almost pure id. W the great(s) @michaelscherer.bsky.social + @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Deadly Force on a Frozen Street Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a dark turn in Minneapolis.

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE officer appears destined to aggravate the nation’s already-raw divisions over immigration enforcement, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

Deadly Force on a Frozen Street Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a dark turn in Minneapolis.

NEW www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Wrath of Stephen Miller The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy

Stephen Miller is now acting as an accelerant for the president’s most incendiary impulses and shaping the lives of individual Americans in nearly every realm, @AshleyRParker, Michael Scherer and @nickmiroff.bsky.social report.