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Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
Staff writer @newyorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, from @penguinpress.
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Nov 2, 2024
    Leaked recording of GA county election official Julie Adams, on possible post-Nov 5 plans: “Maybe we all find discrepancies & we file an immediate injunction. Maybe we go to the press. Maybe, when we’re certifying, we say we’re certifying under protest.”
    How Pro-Trump Activists Hijacked Georgia’s Election Board
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Jun 9, 2020
    Stephen Miller, an actual white nationalist, is writing the President's speech on "race relations."
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    AprilDRyan
    @AprilDRyan
    Jun 9, 2020
    Stephen Miller, who crafted @realDonaldTrump immigration policy at the southern border, including separating families and caging children, is preparing a @WhiteHouse speech on race relations. @AURNOnline #AURN report bit.ly/3dZNGdK
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Sep 16, 2020
    We're at DefCon1 levels of *gross mismanagement* @DHSgov at this point, where each day brings another massive scandal. So many of these scandals are unfolding at once, in real time, that it's worth highlighting the basic chronology of a few of them from past couple of weeks. 1/
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Aug 22, 2018
    Replying to @JonathanBlitzer
    Did the outcry over family separation surprise the Administration? Yes, official said. “The expectation was that the kids would go to Office of Refugee Resettlement, that the parents would get deported, & that no one would care.” end/
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Aug 22, 2018
    A few pieces of news from my latest. The lesson of family separation debacle wasn't that govt went too far separating families, an Admin official told me. Rather it was that “we need to be smarter if we want to implement something on this scale” again. 1/
    Will Anyone in the Trump Administration Ever Be Held Accountable for the Zero-Tolerance Immigration...
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Sep 10, 2020
    The DHS whistle-blower complaint provides even more evidence of how the dept has simply become a cesspool of Trumpism. There's one set of details concerning Central America that seems worth calling attention to, since it may get overshadowed by all the other scandalous stuff. 1/
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    May 5, 2021
    In 2017, she was one of the first parents to be deliberately separated from her children at the border under Trump. Yesterday, she became the first parent to enter the US under a parole granted by the Biden reunification task force. This is her story:
    A Mother, Separated from Her Children at the Border, Comes Home
    From newyorker.com
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Feb 7, 2022
    For the @NewYorker's Anniversary Issue, I profiled Caetano Veloso:
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    How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit
    The musician’s political persecution pushed him into a career he was never sure he wanted.
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Sep 16, 2020
    Replying to @JonathanBlitzer
    (iv) Arguably the most scandalous of all and woefully under-covered: This summer "ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests. A huge coronavirus outbreak followed inside the VA detention center." 7/
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    ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests. A huge...
    One current and one former official said the transfers were arranged to skirt rules about who can travel on “ICE Air” flights.
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Feb 22, 2020
    Justice Sotomayor is sounding a major alarm in her dissent yesterday (on public charge), abt conservative control over SCOTUS & how the Trump Administration is skipping over the federal judiciary and running straight to SCOTUS for backing on its most controversial policies. 1/
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Aug 6, 2019
    How the Trump Campaign Used Facebook Ads to Amplify His ‘Invasion’ Claim via @nytimes
    How the Trump Campaign Used Facebook Ads to Amplify His ‘Invasion’ Claim (Published 2019)
    From nytimes.com
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Jun 25, 2019
    From my latest @NewYorker. ICE officers are increasingly questioning the agency’s mission: newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Sep 16, 2020
    Replying to @JonathanBlitzer
    (i) "Dept has been using major hotel chains to detain [hundreds of] children & families taken into custody at border, creating a largely unregulated shadow system of detention and swift expulsions." 2/
    The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has detained migrants in hotels across the southern border, including at a Hampton Inn in Phoenix.
    A Private Security Company Is Detaining Migrant Children at Hotels (Published 2020)
    From nytimes.com
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    Jonathan Blitzer
    @JonathanBlitzer
    Aug 5, 2019
    Replying to @JonathanBlitzer
    because this is Trump you get this: a dear friend of mine, an immigration lawyer in El Paso, saying, "Please please please God don't let Trump come here now. We're burying our dead. We're trying to pull together. We're so so hurt."