Outside the Beltway

Arresting the spouses of Americans at Green Card appointments.

Surging resources to immigration enforcement comes with tradeoffs.

Of license plate holders and perfume bottles.

By law enforcement.

The decision “was not conceived in good faith.”

The Feds raid an apartment building in Chicago.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

The Shadow Docket strikes again.

Don’t confuse them with the ice cream man.

The pattern of attempted intimidation continues.

While critics warn of fascism, the public is thus far backing Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Arresting Newark Mayor Baraka is clearly a signal.

Apparently, this is who we are now.

To the Trump administation this a feature, not a bug.

But the Trump administration is out to wreck it.

Todd Lyons, acting Director of ICE provides the latest example.

Unequal treatment for senior officials is the norm, like it or not.

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

A glaring example of trying to terrorize those the administration doesn’t like.

The efficiency is something to behold.

The dark side of federalism.

Turning a campaign slogan into policy.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

They’re not sending their best people.

When the solution is worse than the problem.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Harvard joins a growing list of universities who will not offer in-person classes this year.

The federal judge who oversees treatment of detained immigrant children has had enough.

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

Once again, a fight is set to brew over funding for the President’s border wall. Will he force another shutdown in an election year?

The case of Roland Gramajo is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

President Trump threatened mass immigration raids. What was delivered was far less met the eye.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

The Trump Administration is expected to begin mass deportation raids as early as this weekend.

Well, of course they are.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016