On January 20, President Trump signed the executive order “Protecting the American People Against Invasion”—ostensibly the first step in what he promised would be the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history. Sweeping measures have quickly followed: sealing the border, canceling asylum appointments, attempting to end birthright citizenship, and revoking Biden-era humanitarian parole programs.

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Mar 26, 2024 |

By Matthew Zuras

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There’s a Christmastime scene in Alexander Payne’s Oscar-nominated coming-of-age drama The Holdovers, set in a fictional Massachusetts boarding school in the early 1970s, in which a group of students grumble over platters of chicken, potatoes, and vibrant, firm stalks of asparagus. It’s the setup for a joke as puerile as the schoolboys—the punchline being the slender green vegetable’s notorious ability to produce pee that smells like the mouth of hell.

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