Bill Essayli, Trump's man in L.A., talks a lot about fraud.
Something he doesn't talk about: his family's federal fraud case, and how he defended it against the office he now runs.
Our reporter Matt Hamilton uncovered the case and went deep on a major Trump player. lamaterial.com/p/bill-essay...
BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.
/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social
We spent months looking into how the Trump admin has remade the immigration courts by purging judges and pressuring those who remain to accelerate deportations.
HT @nicknehamas.bsky.social for steering and @datab.ae, Allison McCann, @haleaziz.bsky.social + many more
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
ICYMI, @londonoe.bsky.social’s reporting has been a master class in staying on a story.
In his latest, he and colleagues obtained video that complicates the official account of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. What was described as a threat looks different on tape. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
New from me and @haleaziz.bsky.social: Months before the ICE arrest this week of a WI mosque leader, Secretary of State Marco Rubio found him to be a threat to the US foreign policy interest of combating antisemitism, according to federal officials and gov records. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
Scoop: California’s senators have launched an inquiry into T.S.A. officials tipping off ICE agents when undocumented immigrants with deportation orders are on on flights’ passenger lists. This is how a woman was recently detained at SFO.
With @haleaziz.bsky.social
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“The correspondence does not say that the U.S. withheld criticism in exchange for taking the migrants, but diplomats made clear that they believed the silence would play to their advantage in negotiations.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...
Remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against protesters there. $30 million in funds.
Inside how Cameroon and the U.S. struck a deal over third-country migrants.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...
Did you see the viral video of a woman being handcuffed by ICE agents at SFO Sunday night?
They knew where to find her because TSA officials tipped them off under a new Trump administration program.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
We spent hours talking to Greg Bovino in his final days as a Border Patrol official.
He mocked Tom Homan. Criticized the current CBP chief. Acknowledged clashes with ICE and the National Guard.
Lots more here:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
Some places that did not have high-profile ICE operations this year, such as Florida and San Antonio, have seen high and steadily increasing numbers of arrests, new data analyzed by The New York Times reveals. See how else the data has varied across the U.S.
Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child
Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and a longtime Trump ally, was in a custody battle over his son.
An ICE official agreed to help.
Full Story: nyti.ms/4bDpop4
Paolo Zampolli, a longtime friend of Donald and Melania Trump, asked a top ICE official to have the mother of his son detained, The New York Times found. Zampolli told the official that it would help him in a custody battle. The ICE official agreed to help. nyti.ms/4bzFOPk
A Trump friend in a custody fight came up with a novel way to try to get his son back: He called ICE and told them his ex-girlfriend was in the country illegally. She has since been deported. By Megan Tuohy @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
5 Herby, Bright And Brilliant Recipes for Nowruz
Persian New Year, or Nowruz, arrives this weekend and is celebrated with meals full of freshness and comfort. Here are some standout options. nyti.ms/4sTwLzU
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MSM news reports rarely state that a public figure "lied" bc that is the word for a situation in which a speaker says something false with intent to deceive (vs being mistaken, deluded, etc). Subjective interior state of mind is tricky to impute from outside. I understand why this is irritating.
RIP John Burns, perhaps the last of a generation of swashbuckling, straight-from-central-casting war correspondents who ran to the sound of the guns and filed exquisite copy at the end of the day. A spendid tribute by @cowellcnd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...
Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.
My story:
In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January.
Among those now in the Yaoundé compound are people who said they escaped imprisonment for their political beliefs, survived wars and fled countries where their sexual orientations are criminalized.
Most of those migrants and their lawyers say they have been detained since then at a state-owned compound.
They say they’ve been told by local authorities that they cannot leave the facility unless they agree to return to their home countries, from which they fled to escape war or persecution.
In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
Protesters demanding regime change in Iran gathered on Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of foreign leaders and diplomats focused on international security. Demonstrations also took place in other cities across the globe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
are u going to la taqueria?
others:
lucca deli
deli board
nopalito
nopa
ferry building
but my final meal would be la taq carne asada burrito
U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home
The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
