Nick Miroff

Not sure how long this has been the case, but the CBP border wall map shows Santa Ana refuge and National Butterfly center as having wall contract awarded: cbp.gov/border-securit…

"The scorching, oil-rich desert sands have precluded the development of much, if any, agriculture, forcing governments to rely almost entirely on imported food. Most of those imports arrive through the Strait of Hormuz" NEW @TheAtlantic by @vmsalama theatlantic.com/national-secur…

Mullin says he will revoke the DHS policy that required Noem (and Lewandowski) to personally review every contract over $100,000. "Unrealistic" he says.

"I think he's in the hall doing media" Sen. Rand Paul says, sounding irritated that Markwayne Mullin isn't in the room for the 9:30 start time youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVLSm…

Noem and DHS claim there have been more than 2M self-deportations, which makes it sound like that is the number who have accepted their cash offer. This is the real number 🔽🔽

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.  A collaboration w/ @CalMatters Evident and @bellingcat

NEW @TheAtlantic The resignation of one of Tulsi Gabbard’s deputies over the Iran war puts the focus on what she’ll do next, @shaneharris reports. theatlantic.com/national-secur…

NEW: The eventual outcome of the Middle East’s largest war in more than 20 years may come down to just how much risk Trump is willing to accept—and how much political pain he is willing to take, @JonLemire and @nancyayoussef report. theatlantic.com/national-secur…

"The wall here had blocked a mountain-lion family, but not the humans that it was meant to stop."

The border wall is back: With $46.5 billion to blow, President Trump has resumed construction, even in remote areas with few illegal crossings, @NickMiroff reports from Arizona’s San Rafael Valley. (+ incredible photos from @philip_cheung ) theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

As President Trump continues to blast through national-park land to build his wall, @NickMiroff found just the right words to describe what is lost. And then @philip_cheung captured that landscape -- and the stars -- in the most amazing photos. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

With $46.5 billion to spend, Trump has resumed construction on the border wall, even in remote areas with few illegal crossings, @NickMiroff reports from Arizona’s San Rafael Valley. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

Story @TheAtlantic Photos by @philip_cheung theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

NEW: Loaded with $$$ from the OBBB and freed from his first-term restraints, Trump is blowing up national-park land in Arizona to wall off the remote San Rafael Valley, one of the border’s last wild places

NEW: Under Kristi Noem, ICE purchased 11 large warehouses around the country that it plans to convert into mega-jails. But senior DHS officials tell @NickMiroff they expect that effort to slow down and perhaps even pause. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

Outspoken Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino is retiring at the end of this month, sources tell CBS News. Earlier in the Trump administration, Bovino was deployed to major cities across the U.S., to oversee sweeping and often controversial immigration raids.

Story @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

NEW: with Kristi Noem out and mass deportations polling badly, ICE's $38 billion warehouse conversion plan is in trouble and DHS officials say a "pause" wouldn't be a bad thing

Trump’s nominee for homeland security secretary has one big thing going for him: He’s not Kristi Noem, @NickMiroff writes. Here’s what's at stake for Markwayne Mullin as the head of an agency in crisis: theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

Everyone wants it, and some are willing to barter or pay to get it. By ⁦@michaelscherer⁩ @ashleyrparker theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…