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What goes on in America’s immigration courts

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“MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!”, cried a federal agent as officers huddled around an asylum seeker who had just left his immigration hearing. Moments earlier the agents’ phones had beeped and vibrated. They had received a photo of the next person they were to detain. They walked to the elevator bank. A couple of agents held the elevator doors open. The migrant was shaking.  He was one of at least 23 people detained by ICE on a recent Tuesday in New York City.

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Checks and Balance newsletter: Of God and MAGA

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Charlotte Howard, our executive editor and New York bureau chief, unpacks the blurring of church and state among Donald Trump’s circle

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The Hudson is now so clean that everyone can eat from it

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Battery sashimi, anyone?

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is a lethality-maxxing wasps’ nest

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America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting

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