Jonathan Blitzer
@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social
Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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Enemies of the State
How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.
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My latest piece, in this week's @newyorker.com, is the story of what happens when the government declares war on an entire population based on little more than fear, confusion, and racial animus. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest."
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest."
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Fascinating, excellent reporting from Sarah Kinosian & Julia Symmes Cobb @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Venezuela’s Nobel Prize-winner bets big on Trump as pressure builds on Maduro
On January 6, 2025, four members of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s team piled onto a couch in a Capitol Hill office, across from Mike Waltz, who was soon to become Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Machado made a cameo via video call from her hideout in Venezuela.
www.reuters.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Fascinating, excellent reporting from Sarah Kinosian & Julia Symmes Cobb @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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🚨Guest hosting Today Explained this afternoon!!
Digging into what's ~really behind Trump's escalation in Venezuela. First @alexhorton.bsky.social on the timeline and the WH's stated rationale…
Digging into what's ~really behind Trump's escalation in Venezuela. First @alexhorton.bsky.social on the timeline and the WH's stated rationale…
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🚨Guest hosting Today Explained this afternoon!!
Digging into what's ~really behind Trump's escalation in Venezuela. First @alexhorton.bsky.social on the timeline and the WH's stated rationale…
Digging into what's ~really behind Trump's escalation in Venezuela. First @alexhorton.bsky.social on the timeline and the WH's stated rationale…
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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
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Hi! We made a show for you about what’s been happening at immigration court:
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www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...
The Hand That Rocks The Gavel - This American Life
A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
www.thisamericanlife.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Hi! We made a show for you about what’s been happening at immigration court:
www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...
www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...
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We’re back! S2 Ep.1 of “Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times is out.” @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social , staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses his recent article in the magazine, “Enemies of the State: How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.”
Season 2, Episode 1: The Trump Administration's War on Venezuelan Migrants
Podcast Episode · Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times · 10/22/2025 · 44m
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October 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We’re back! S2 Ep.1 of “Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times is out.” @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social , staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses his recent article in the magazine, “Enemies of the State: How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.”
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Just finished @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social's "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" and I'm blown away both by the mounds of research and the expert storytelling. If you want an in-depth and entertaining primer on the making of our migrant situation, this is the book.
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Just finished @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social's "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" and I'm blown away both by the mounds of research and the expert storytelling. If you want an in-depth and entertaining primer on the making of our migrant situation, this is the book.
These are very much worth reading 👇👇
Last week, in response to @mattyglesias.bsky.social and Josh Barro’s recent discussions, I launched a Substack series on what really went wrong with Biden’s immigration strategy. Catch up on part 1 before part 2 drops tomorrow. open.substack.com/pub/arosaflo...
When the Border Crossed Biden
Part 1: The Decision to Keep the Border Closed
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October 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
These are very much worth reading 👇👇
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Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social reports on the Trump Administration’s recent vessel strikes in the Caribbean, and what they reveal about his broader agenda.
The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats
The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social reports on the Trump Administration’s recent vessel strikes in the Caribbean, and what they reveal about his broader agenda.
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A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.
www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...
www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...
October 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.
www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...
www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...
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How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’s shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war in Gaza.
Why Israel and Hamas Might Finally Have a Deal
How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’ shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’s shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war in Gaza.
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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
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October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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A federal judge in El Paso has ordered the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration rights activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A federal judge in El Paso has ordered the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration rights activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.
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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’
WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:
"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"
"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:
"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"
"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"
“Inner cities are a big part of war. I will never hesitate to protect our people from the horrible plague that is taking place from within.”
Trump, justifying domestic military action, tells Pentagon leaders to ‘handle’ the ‘enemy from within’
The president suggested “dangerous” American cities should be used as Pentagon “training grounds” during a dark and winding 72-minute speech.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another?
In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...