From the ICE <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/deportation-dragnet-student-visa-columbia-trump-palestine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">arrest and detention</a> of pro-Palestinian organizers to the <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/04/07/where-students-have-had-their-visas-revoked" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mass revocation</a> of student visas to the <a href="https://time.com/7270418/venezuela-deported-reyes-barrios/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">deportation</a> of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador, the Trump administration’s assault on noncitizens has been as headline-grabbing as it has been brutal. But even though the sheer speed and spectacle of the offensive makes it appear new, many of the legal and enforcement tools at play are old, with the administration drawing on <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5360605/mahmoud-khalil-gaza-protests-columbia-university-immigrant" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cold War-era laws</a>, <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-attack-on-mahmoud-khalil-is-straight-out-of-the-war-on-terror-playbook/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">War on Terror-era agencies</a>, and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-obama-criminal-deportation-statistics_n_5d52b1aee4b05fa9df04c9e5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Obama</a>- and <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/illegal-immigrants-deportation-ice-joe-biden-donald-trump-2003843" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Biden</a>-era precedents. In this episode of On the Nose, we speak with the deportation defense lawyer Sophia Elena Gurulé and immigration reporter Tanvi Misra about the ongoing clampdowns, where they are following precedents and where they are setting them, and the stakes of understanding these historical continuities.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Texts Mentioned and Further Resources:“<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/mapping-who-lives-in-border-patrol-s-100-mile-zone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mapping Who Lives in Border Patrol’s ‘100-Mile Zone</a>,’” Tanvi Misra, Bloomberg“<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-20/the-origins-of-american-immigration-detention" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Origins of American Immigration Detention</a>,” Tanvi Misra, Bloomberg“<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-16/civil-war-era-parallels-to-the-sanctuary-city-movement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Civil War-Era Parallels to the Sanctuary City Movement</a>,” Tanvi Misra, Bloomberg“<a href="https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/files/reports/If%20You%20Build%20It%2C%20ICE%20Will%20Fill%20IT_Report_2022.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">If You Build It, ICE Will Fill It: The Link Between Detention Capacity and ICE Arrests</a>,” Detention Watch“<a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/648338/trump-deport-us-citizens-el-salvador" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump says he wants to deport US citizens to El Salvador</a>,” Gaby Del Valle, The VergeBorder and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha WaliaUnbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah

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