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<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Blitzer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24584.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Blitzer]]></description><category domain="24584">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Mass Detention Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/qHEEU</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even with Kristi Noem gone, the Administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s immigration agenda shows no signs of flagging'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in fact, it is leading toward a new humanitarian and legal crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Dems Fight Trump&rsquo;s Redistricting Scheme?]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/L23OK</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fleeing lawmakers in Texas are unlikely to stop Republicans from redrawing the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s congressional maps, but their effort has offered a rallying cry'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and a reminder of the Democratic Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s weaknesses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Texas Showdown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/08/joe-bidens-texas-showdown</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In some ways, Greg Abbott, as the governor of a border state, poses a more acute political problem for the President than Donald Trump does.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Disillusionment of a Young Biden Official]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-disillusionment-of-a-young-biden-official</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Andrea Flores's efforts to roll back Trump's immigration policies faced opposition inside and outside the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trapped in Afghanistan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Shah began working as a translator for U.S. forces at an Afghan airbase, in 2007, his parents warned that he was putting the family at risk. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'In our culture, most kids listen to what their parents say,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he told me. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'And they kept telling me to quit. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d say,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden and the Blame Game at the Border]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/biden-and-the-blame-game-at-the-border</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The issues involved are nearly impossible'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to settle as long as policymakers regard decency as a political weakness rather than as a moral strength.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fight for the Latino Vote in Florida]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/the-fight-for-the-latino-vote-in-florida</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Immigration, taxes, and health care matter, but a foreign-policy issue has taken center stage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Attack on the Rights of Immigrant Children]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-trump-administrations-sustained-attack-on-flores-agreement-rights-of-immigrant-children</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House's new regulations would gut the Flores agreement, which, for more than twenty years, has insured protections for children held in government custody.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ICE Agents Losing Patience With Trump's Border Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ice-agents-are-losing-patience-with-trumps-chaotic-immigration-policy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a dumb-shit political move that will only hurt the agents, a former deputy chief of staff at ICE said of the raid operation, which the President announced and then postponed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Climate Change Is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-climate-change-is-fuelling-the-us-border-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the western highlands of Guatemala, the question is no longer whether someone will leave but when.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Cycle of Self-Sabotage at the U.S. Border]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-cycle-of-self-sabotage-at-the-us-border</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President's move to end all aid to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras will only make the crisis at the border worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who'll Be Held Accountable for Zero-Tolerance Policy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/will-anyone-in-the-trump-administration-ever-be-held-accountable-for-the-zero-tolerance-policy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The policy, which called for the criminal prosecution of anyone crossing the border illegally, and led to the separation of more than twenty-five hundred children from their parents, has coincided with a broader effort to dismantle the U.S. asylum system.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Humanitarian Crisis on the Border Could Worsen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-the-humanitarian-crisis-on-the-mexico-border-could-worse</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Migrants detained at the southern border may no longer face criminal prosecution, but the shift to civil proceedings will cost them access to the lawyers who are helping to locate their children.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Disdain Behind the GOP's New Census Question]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-motives-behind-the-trump-administrations-new-census-question-on-citizenship</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Blitzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nine years ago, two Republican senators, David Vitter, of Louisiana, and Robert Bennett, of Utah, tried to introduce a measure to change the way that the federal government conducts the census. The Census Bureau tabulates the over-all population, not just that of citizens, and its...]]></description>
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