By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. July 11, 2025 Many Americans in positions of power, including corporate executives and members of Congress, seem too afraid of President Trump to stand…
The pulsing beat of a dance track grew to a thunderous pitch and the crowd rose to its feet. Beams of light flashed across the cavernous arena in Birmingham, central England. Then, at last, Nigel Farage, the right-wing populist leader who claims he can fix a “broken Britain,” arrived onstage, hitching a ride on a…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, along with state law enforcement officials, arrested about 780 immigrants in Florida in an operation this week, according to ICE data obtained by The New York Times. The operation began on Monday and targeted undocumented immigrants with final deportation orders, according to an ICE official, who spoke on the…
On March 11, about 50 judges gathered in Washington for the biannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, which oversees the administration of the federal courts. It was the first time the conference met since President Trump retook the White House. In the midst of discussions of staffing levels and long-range planning, the judges’ conversations were…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that 27 religious groups seeking to block the Trump administration from conducting immigration enforcement in places of worship did not have legal standing to bring the case, meaning it won’t proceed to a full hearing. Newsweek contacted the press office of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
Privacy advocates say that all this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing information about an individual’s personal life (bankruptcies, criminal histories, medical claims) or halting the benefits they receive (housing vouchers, retirement checks, food assistance). “They have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some…
Las figuras influyentes de la derecha en gran parte han aplaudido los primeros meses del mandato del presidente Donald Trump. Pero a medida que el gobierno se ha apresurado a llevar a cabo las deportaciones lo más rápidamente posible, cometiendo errores y suscitando dudas sobre el debido proceso, el frente unificado a favor de la…
Five senators who visited the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, criticized the migrant mission there over the weekend as a waste of resources, after the Pentagon estimated that the operation had cost $40 million in its first month. The Senate delegation on Friday toured Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities where about 85 migrants were…
The crumbling apartments in Aurora, Colo., that President Trump seized on to insist the city had been overrun by Venezuelan street gangs are now boarded up and nearly empty. But in one building, the smashed door of Apartment 300 captures the fresh divisions sown by Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. On a recent spring morning, a…
En un video propagandístico difundido por el gobierno de El Salvador, un grupo de personas detenidas y encadenadas eran sacadas a la fuerza de aviones, mientras unos drones filmaban desde arriba. Mientras la música se intensificaba, los hombres subían a vehículos blindados que los trasladaron a una gran prisión. Allí les raparon la cabeza y…