1/ For the Atlantic's September cover story, I took 3 trips to the Darien Gap to try to understand the forces driving people there: instability, policy failures, and smuggling orgs that are eager to take advantage. @lynseyaddario captured it all.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… 2/Each time I returned, I saw new bridges and paved roads appear deeper in the jungle, Wi‑Fi hotspots extend their reach, and landmarks that were previously known only by word of mouth appear on Google Maps--all of which speak to the overwhelming power of global displacement.

1/T-42 coverage depicting migrants as inherently threatening--ppl who will take your jobs, your safety, your health, your *something*--plays into centuries-old xenophobic stereotypes that have never been borne out by facts. 2/The resource strain at the border and in some cities (including mine) is real, but it's not the full, fact-based picture of how newcomers would impact American society. It's a tiny fraction of it.

1/ICYMI: Matt Albence, an enthusiastic proponent for Zero Tolerance who tried to stop separated families from being reunited (writing, “We can’t have this”) is poised to join GEO, a private prison company that is federally contracted to detain migrants. law360.com/articles/15157… 2/Before this appointment, Albence continued to work in immigration detention, having collaborated with the Biden administration as a representative of his consulting company, GrindStone--even though he has been sued for his role in family separations.

1/ I've spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their parents as a way to discourage migration to the United States. Here's my story about how and why it happened, and who's responsible.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… 2/ Beyond the answers to those initial questions, I came away with a new understanding of the government processes and procedures that exist to prevent bad policies from being implemented--systems that in this case, were dismantled, disempowered or ignored.