Trump’s Team Just Found a New Way to Punish Some of the World’s Least Powerful People

The Slatest Today, the country got crueler. July 28, 20265:59 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Roberto Schmidt/ AFP via Getty Images. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The best way to understand this Trump administration’s immigration policy is as a giant race to deport as many people as possible. Standing in the way of that goal is a complex series of laws and procedures aimed at adjudicating which asylum seekers (and others) have a legitimate claim to stay. From literally Day 1, this administration has sought to undermine that system with an “everyone* must go” mentality. Today, the administration took another major step toward that goal. *Unless you’re white; we’ll get to that. That’s omin