Hamed Aleaziz
@haleaziz.bsky.social
I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times LA Times, BuzzFeed News, SF Chronicle alum
Seeing people confused about Fauci taking the Fifth even though he was pre-emptively pardoned by Biden. Pardons only cover past conduct; they don't immunize future lawbreaking. Fauci's claim is Trump II DOJ would gin up a perjury investigation into him based on anything he says today.
NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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Breaking News: Global oil prices reached $100 a barrel that for the first time since May, as the widening war between the U.S. and Iran stifled the flow of energy in the Middle East. nyti.ms/4ftC9EN
New, from me and @ckoettl.bsky.social: Iran has attacked at least nine U.S. military sites in the last two weeks, destroying radar sites, personnel areas, hangars, and other structures, and killing at least three service members. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...
What Visuals Show About Recent Damage to U.S. Military Sites in the Middle East
Video footage and satellite images reveal new details about Iranian strikes on U.S. targets during the latest flare-up in fighting.
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Not sure if you happened to catch Thursday's episode of The Daily. I was interviewed and talked about the extraordinary ways President Trump and his family have monetized the White House, based on a decade of reporting on the Trump family. Please listen & share www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
The Unprecedented Personal Profits of Trump’s Presidency
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Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.
Mexican Man Killed by ICE in Houston Was Not the Target
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Thomas L. Friedman, NYT opinion writer, cites reporting by Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany today as part of his column on Trump and the presdient's enormous earnings in 2025, including $1.4 billion on crypto. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Fleecing Us
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NEW: Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last 5 days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push at ICE to increase arrests. The WH has wanted more arrests. The expectation inside ICE is 2K arrests a day. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
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Transparency, even when it is examining your own company operations. One of the many things I admire about The NYT. A deeply reported look at Russini’s closeness to a coach, Mike Vrabel of the New England Patriots, that led to her breakup with The Athletic/NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...
Dianna Russini Was an N.F.L. ‘Insider.’ Was She Also Out of Bounds?
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The Trump administration can expedite the deportations of unauthorized immigrants nationwide, an appeals court ruled.
Appeals Court Allows Trump to Resume Expedited Deportations Nationwide
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that the president can expand the procedure, previously used primarily near the border, to arrests nationally.
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NEW: In the coming weeks, the US plans to provide a welcome gift to white South Africans. They will get an Android tablet, an American flag. They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history.
NEW: The Trump administration told a federal court judge in Michigan that it plans to sell the warehouse it purchased to detain immigrants in the state. This is the first public acknowledgement of plans to sell warehouses after our story last week.
Our latest investigation: How giant trucks and SUVs are far deadlier for pedestrians. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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SCOOP: Memo by Rubio Approved Detention of Immigrant Who Criticized Trump Ally www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...
Memo by Rubio Approved Detention of Immigrant Who Criticized Trump Ally
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The Salt Lake City warehouse is reportedly one of seven warehouses the agency plans to sell or give away. ICE paid $145 million for the building in March, well above its $97 million value. www.kuer.org/politics-gov... @haleaziz.bsky.social broke the story for NYT.
Report says ICE will ditch its Salt Lake City warehouse
According to the New York Times, Salt Lake City is reportedly one of seven warehouses the agency plans to sell or give away. ICE paid $145 million for the building in March.
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The ICE site in Roxbury, New Jersey, is on this list, according to the NYT. The U.S. government -- in other words, the public -- paid nearly double the market rate for that site in Morris County. www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/03/prev... @njspotlightnews.org #ICE #NJ
‘Prevent public contact’: ICE deportation network comes into focus | NJ Spotlight News
Immigration enforcement expanding in Jersey and elsewhere on East Coast, adding holding sites, guards with guns
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Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · 2mo agoSCOOP: ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
ICE plans to sell or give away seven warehouses it bought for $700 million to detain migrants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The decision, a major reversal, is a rejection of a signature initiative under the previous homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. trib.al/o5iUEu3
Huge about-face. After buying warehouses with tax dollars, at inflated prices, ICE will now try to dump them. Documents obtained by @haleaziz.bsky.social show that a NJ warehouse slated to become a 1,500-bed detention center is on the offload list. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
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For those interested. The locations include: Romulus, Michigan Social Circle, Georgia Flowery Branch, Georgia Hamburg, Pennsylvania Tremont, Pennsylvania Salt Lake City Roxbury, New Jersey
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · 2mo agoSCOOP: ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
SCOOP: ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
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A Somali soccer referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was denied permission to enter the U.S. to participate in the World Cup received a hero’s welcome from a cheering crowd at the airport upon his return to his home country.
Somali World Cup Referee Denied Entry to U.S. Returns Home to Hero’s Welcome
Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who is widely admired in his home country, would have been the first Somali to referee a World Cup game.
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Actually, Most Immigrants Won’t Need to Leave U.S. to Get Green Cards, D.H.S. Says www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...
Actually, Most Immigrants Won’t Need to Leave U.S. to Get Green Cards, D.H.S. Says
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DHS memo obtained by the Times shows the top lawyer of the agency assuring agents that they were “not legally required to comply with state and local mask prohibitions while carrying out their official duties.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/n...
New York Wants to Restrict ICE Enforcement. ICE Has Other Ideas.
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Belatedly, honored for this recognition of our work last year. If you work in the federal government on immigration and want to talk about what I should be looking into right now message me on Signal: haleaziz.81
New: An internal email obtained by Times shows, a lawyer for ICE instructed a Justice Department lawyer preparing to appear before Judge DuBose, that he should withhold information about international charges from the judge. The email has not been previously reported.
NEW from @haleaziz.bsky.social: Florida today told workers at "Alligator Alcatraz," a state-run immigration detention tent camp which was holding around 1,400 people as of last month, that it would be shutting down the camp, with all detainees transferred out (likely to ICE) by early June.
Florida Plans to Close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, Vendors Are Reportedly Told
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pulled some disparate data together and analyzed it for this story
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · 3mo agoScoop: immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests, posting criticism of Israel on social media and desecrating the American flag, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...
Immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests and criticizing Israel, according to new guidance from the Trump administration in internal DHS training materials reviewed by The New York Times.
Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel
In guidance to immigration officers, the administration describes participating in pro-Palestinian protests and criticizing Israel as “overwhelmingly negative” factors.
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