Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Dara Lind
Most politicians know how to strike more than one note. Trump does not.
President Trump has turned the Salvadoran-American street gang into public enemy No. 1.
Don’t start with what Trump says about the border. Start with what’s true.
The way President Trump talks about the border makes it harder to see that there are urgent problems that need to be addressed.
The people directly harmed can be counted. The indirect effects can’t be.
The more symbolically important Trump’s border fight gets, the more desperately he needs to build a literal wall.
As Congress debates border security, the issues that led to the death of two children in December are in danger of fading into the background.
An internal email, sent two weeks after Trump started making the claim, asked agents for “any information” about what Trump was describing.
With a shortage of air traffic controllers, some flights to LaGuardia and other East Coast airports have been delayed.
The new policy, forcing Central Americans to wait in Mexico while their cases are pending in the US, started Friday at the biggest crossing along the US-Mexico border.