Tim Miller
Role at the time: Political podcaster and Bulwark commentator
Responding to
U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention
"We are imprisoning Maryam, Eissa, and their teenage son not because they are a threat to national security—but because of something a family member did before any of them were born."
Why we used this label
His bylined essay explicitly describes the confinement as unjust family-based punishment.