Abstract legal and procedural questions don’t move public sentiment. Stories of individuals do.

What did more to turn American voters so sharply against the postpandemic wave of immigration, crime statistics or the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley?

Now, as the Trump administration finds itself locked in a legal battle over broad powers the president has claimed to get those migrants out of the country, its foes are looking for their own story to tell.

You may have heard about Jerce Reyes Barrios, the 36-year-old former soccer coach, who claims he fled Venezuela’s police state after being targeted for protesting the government in Caracas. What immigration officials say is a gang tattoo Barrios’s lawyer says is a sign of his support for the Spanish soccer team Real Madrid.

In our sports-obsessed society, the overlap between soccer fandom and foreign policy has produced quite a bit of attention for the case.

Now, gay rights activists are

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