A small, dedicated crew of hardliners has put up bureaucratic barriers that are far harder to overcome than any hunk of concrete at the bord
| | | | | | | | | Trump Got His Wall, After All | | | | | | | | | Hello Highliners,
Donald Trump’s wall. It’s become the subject of protests, jokes, memes and chants. While the president’s obsession with building a physical barrier along the southern border represents a terrifying vision of a gated country, it’s also treated as something of a madman’s fancy.
But what if that’s all wrong? What if Trump’s wall is, in fact, alarmingly close to completion—and we’re just looking in the wrong place? What if his wall isn’t being built along the U.S.-Mexico border, but rather in policy offices in Washington, staffed not by military guards but by ideologues and bureaucrats like Stephen Miller, the notorious senior advisor to the President?
In an explosive report for Highline, based on scores of interviews with immigration officials and lawyers, editor Rachel Morris grippingly documents this invisible wall, one built out of subtle shifts in administrative language: a phrase that gets cut, a revision to a website, a footnote in a memo. Last year, the number of immigrants added to the U.S. population was 70 percent less than the year before—and this paper barrier was the cause. You have to read Rachel on how cunning and stealthy Stephen Miller has been in getting what he wants: an end to legal immigration as we know it.
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