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Trump’s immigration crackdown keeps creating its own confusion
On September 17, the Trump administration’s immigration posture was still producing the kind of uncertainty that makes businesses, universities, and lawyers reach for the aspirin bottle. The day’s coverage showed the White House moving hard on restrictive enforcement and signaling more to come, while the practical rules and consequences remained muddy enough to trigger panic and second-guessing. That combination is a political problem and an administrative one: if your signature policy can’t be explained cleanly, it starts looking less like strength and more like chaos.