The Hound | May 7

Hi there,

It’s Thursday. New polling shows more than 80 percent of voters want age caps for members of Congress. An argument for including Substacks into a new category for the Pulitzer Prizes. And new analysis shows how much of an abject failure Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement surge has been, with U.S.-born workers no better off as a result of ICE raids.

What was framed as a decisive show of force is revealing itself as a policy that cannot meet its own goals without causing widespread harm. Yet too much media coverage continues to focus on the rhetoric of enforcement—raids, numbers, and political messaging—without examining whether the strategy is actually working. When an administration promotes an aggressive policy that fails to deliver results while creating economic and social fallout, the story is not just enforcement—it is failure.

🖊️ Add your name to call on major news organizations to cover the immigration surge as a failed policy experiment—investigating its real outcomes, its impact on workers and communities, and the disconnect between political claims and actual results.

The public deserves reporting that evaluates effectiveness, not just intent.

Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:

Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Isn’t Helping Native-Born Workers (The New Republic)

In a new poll, Americans voice broad bipartisan support for age caps in Congress (NPR)

First Thing: Uncertainty looms as last oil tanker from Middle East arrives in California (The Guardian)

Lawyer on EEOC’s New York Times Lawsuit Has History Battling Discrimination Against Men (The Intercept)

We Need a Pulitzer for Substacks (The American Prospect)

When Do ‘Detention Centers’ Become ‘Concentration Camps’? Experts Look to History (The Marshall Project)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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