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Trump Officials Ask Military Lawyers to Serve as Immigration Judges

Emails sent out call for volunteers to take six-month assignments hearing asylum and deportation cases.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to use military lawyers as temporary immigration judges in the Justice Department’s immigration courts.

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

5 September 2025 at 03:13
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

President Trump is claiming the extraordinary power to shift maritime counterdrug efforts from law enforcement rules to wartime rules.
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Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

The defense secretary and President Trump said a small boat was carrying drugs but offered little evidence and few details.

© Martin Bernetti/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Sampson in Panama City on Tuesday. The Pentagon has been amassing a small armada of warships in the southern Caribbean.
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