Last week, I published an article about Wenjian Zhuo, a Chinese immigrant who, until January 22, 2025, lived in Queens and worked as a driver. The man in the ski hat, it turned out, had filled Zhuo’s minivan with two hundred pounds of marijuana, packaged in vacuum-sealed bags. The eighteen months he has already spent in jail will count toward his sentence, but after it concludes the threat of deportation looms. I spent the past three months investigating this case, and have found it both distressing and surreal. Last week, the White House announced that President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members were launching TikTok accounts.