America Is No Longer a Safe Haven for the Russian Opposition

ICE is deporting asylum seekers into the arms of Putin’s secret police.

A barbed wire fence cuts this photo in half down the middle. On one side stands a man with a hand on his hip, motioning with his other hand as he speaks. On the other side stands a border patrol agent in a uniform and a surgical mask, holding a stack of passports in his hands. September 18, 2025, 3:26 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Trump’s Second Term

Ongoing reports and analysis

In a saner America, Viktor Murikhanov would have been welcomed as a hero. That isn’t how it has worked out .

Soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Murikhanov—a Russian citizen living in Irkutsk

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