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All the way back in 2015, Donald Trump proposed a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Islamophobia featured prominently in his campaign for the Presidency. “If you have people coming out of mosques with hatred and death in their eyes,” he said, “we’re going to have to do something.” Recently, he’s directed his ire toward the congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who represents Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives. Earlier this month, more than a dozen federal agents raided Omar’s Washington, D.C., home. The following day, anonymous government officials confirmed that the raid was part of an investigation into potential immigration fraud. The government was building a case to denaturalize and ultimately deport Omar. “The Trump Administration is the first that we’ve seen using denaturalization as an end goal in and of itself, not as a means of something else,” a law professor who studies citizenship said. Rozina Ali interrogates the President’s Islamophobic rhetoric, and his twisted definition of what it means to be American: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ta…

Hate has played an arresting role in the late stages of Michigan’s Senate race, in which Abdul El-Sayed is facing the former U.S. congressman and Donald Trump ally Mike Rogers. At a rally in Port Huron early this week, Trump announced, “I’m here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a U.S. senator.” But El-Sayed does not take these statements lying down. His reputation is that of a know-it-all who is happy to scorch anyone who opposes him. Sarah Jukaku, his wife, described him as a counterpuncher. “If you are respectful, he will be so respectful. If you are kind and warm, he will be so kind and warm. He will mirror it with more,” she told Eliza Griswold. Read Griswold’s dispatch from the final days of El-Sayed’s campaign: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/B_…