Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky is The Nation's Western correspondent. He is the author of several books, including The American Way of Poverty, The House of Twenty Thousand Books, Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar, and most recently Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America. Follow him on Bluesky at @sashaabramsky.bsky.social.

An agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement waits in a hallway on July 17, 2025.

Why Did ICE Arrest This North Carolina Family? They Were Home. Why Did ICE Arrest This North Carolina Family? They Were Home.

Two family members have been released, but 20-year-old Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla has been held at Georgia’s infamous Stewart Detention Center since February.

Aug 22, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

A community coalition of labor, immigrant, and civil rights groups rally at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on August 12.

“This Is a Hunting of People”: LA Protesters Turn Out to Resist ICE “This Is a Hunting of People”: LA Protesters Turn Out to Resist ICE

Hundreds of Angelenos took to the streets Tuesday to show support for their neighbors and coworkers who are being targeted during ICE’s raids.

Aug 15, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Fifty-year-old Libyan asylum seeker Mohamed Naser was detained in a privately run immigrant detention facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, an eight-hour drive from his home.

We’ve Officially Entered Kafka’s America We’ve Officially Entered Kafka’s America

Stephen Miller’s dystopian immigrant-hunting system is picking up pace, and asylum seekers like Mohamed Naser are increasingly vulnerable.

Aug 6, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

Palestinians, struggling with hunger, form a line to receive hot meals in Gaza's al-Zeitoun neighborhood on July 31, 2025.

Forced Starvation Is a Grotesque Inversion of Jewish Traditions Forced Starvation Is a Grotesque Inversion of Jewish Traditions

I learned from a young age that you shouldn’t let your neighbor go hungry. Benjamin Netanyahu would do well to revisit this tradition.

Aug 1, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Beds are seen inside a migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, as President Donald Trump tours the facility in Ochopee, Florida, on July 1, 2025.

From KGB Cells to Alligator Alcatraz: How Authoritarians Normalize the Grotesque From KGB Cells to Alligator Alcatraz: How Authoritarians Normalize the Grotesque

During a recent trip to Tallinn, I visited the horrific manifestations of an unredeemable totalitarian regime. A similar system is unfolding in Trump’s America.

Jul 25, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Hundreds of demonstrators gather to protest against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on March 3, 2025, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Thank the Supreme Court for the Evisceration of the Federal Workforce Thank the Supreme Court for the Evisceration of the Federal Workforce

Progressive politicians must commit to expanding the court, or voters should pledge their support to other candidates who will.

Jul 18, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) speaks with reporters as she boards the Senate subway after a vote in the US Capitol on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Spineless Republicans Are Part of a Bigger Problem Spineless Republicans Are Part of a Bigger Problem

Issues once thought long settled are now up for grabs again. But “they’re not going to get what they want,” says Omar Jadwat of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Jul 4, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Migrants from Guatemala are deported to their country with a United States military plane at the Fort Bliss facility in El Paso, Texas, on January 30, 2025.

The Supreme Court Allows Trump Officials to Deport Migrants to “Third Countries” The Supreme Court Allows Trump Officials to Deport Migrants to “Third Countries”

The Supreme Court ruled from its emergency docket that the Trump administration could temporarily send immigrants to third-party countries with which they have no connection.

Jun 27, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

The National Labor Relations Board seal hangs inside a hearing room at the headquarters in Washington, DC.

Trump Is Delivering on Project 2025’s Promise to Gut the NLRB Trump Is Delivering on Project 2025’s Promise to Gut the NLRB

If there is a silver lining, it is that blue states and municipalities are doubling down on protecting workers.

Jun 20, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Signs are left on the ground including two that read “This was a kidnapping” and “Bring Kilmar home now!” as protesters break outside the US District Court for the District of Maryland on May 16, 2025, in Greenbelt, Maryland. Protesters rallied outside the court during a hearing for a Maryland resident from El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was detained in a notoriously violent maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice System in Plain Sight Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice System in Plain Sight

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is just the latest example of cases in which the administration is finding the flimsiest of reasons to label undocumented immigrants as “criminals.”

Jun 13, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

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