


America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity
A visit to the second biggest, in Georgia, shows what that looks like
IN APRIL Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), lamented that it takes too long to deport illegal immigrants. At the Border Security Expo in Phoenix he told a crowd of startup bosses vying for government contracts that a better deportation system would function more like Amazon, the tech giant whose delivery drivers zigzag the country at record speed. “Like Prime, but with human beings,” he said.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Lumpkin it”

Demand for American degrees is sinking
Trump’s war on universities is driving talent away

Why would Texas Republicans object to conservative, pro-family developers?
Because they’re Muslim, of course

America has found a new lever to squeeze foreigners for cash
Donald Trump’s tax bill targets foreigners with alarming levies
How young voters helped to put Trump in the White House
And why millennials and Gen Zers are already leaving the president
America’s Senate plans big changes for the House’s spending bill
What to expect from the upper chamber
MAGA: protecting the homeland from Canadian bookworms
A dispatch from the library that straddles the US-Canada border