Thursday, August 6, 2026

Airline workers are refusing to assist federal agents as the Trump administration escalates immigration enforcement at airports, with agents seeking 2,000 daily arrests. The expansion of immigration enforcement at US airports puts employees at odds with agents, a rupture between capital's logistics arm and the state's deportation machinery.

After the Supreme Court rejected his previous attempt, Trump signed executive orders targeting birthright citizenship for children born to “alien enemies,” foreign lobbyists or tourists. The orders are certain to face legal challenges as the administration pursues a new legal tack to restrict citizenship rights, escalating the war on migrant families despite judicial rebuke.

A New Jersey voter-registration error improperly added as many as 6,600 noncitizens to its voter rolls; those people could now be forced out of the country. In Texas, a Trump voter criticized the administration after his Venezuelan fiancee was arrested by ICE, exposing how the enforcement apparatus spares no one, not even the president's own base.

As living costs soar, former Rep. Dan Crenshaw drew swift conservative backlash Tuesday; in a social media post uploaded to X Wednesday night, he told struggling Americans, "Stop whining, get a job, eat Ramen like the rest of us did in college, on a budget with [four] roommates." Meanwhile, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out fracking in a key basin, citing danger to nearby water tables and indigenous communities. Public Citizen released a report detailing the Trump administration's secretive web of critical minerals deals around the world, exclusively shared with Mother Jones. The Lever reports big money lost to Abdul El-Sayed as pop-up PACs and paid influencers reshape the 2026 midterms.