Reece Jones

@reecejones.bsky.social

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Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected

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Reece Jones is an American political geographer and Guggenheim Fellow.

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · Feb 12

My next book SMUGGLER with Greg Boos will be out in September 2026. Thrilled that HBO optioned the rights for a scripted series

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 2h

📚 Lecture Recording Now Available

UH Mānoa Department of Educational Foundations has released the recorded lecture by Prof. Reece Jones on his book Nobody Is Protected.

🎥 Watch the full talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_DJ...

Title image of Prof. Reece Jones' talk with a photo of Prof. Jones.

Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 4h

Operation Stonegarden, which allows DHS to pay local police to patrol with the Border Patrol, got $450 billion in additional funding in the big beautiful bill

Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 4h

Kristi Noem says 223 people were arrested in a multi-state roadway operation with Indiana police. Advocates say these sweeps often target workers and long-time residents.

Read: indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/30/n...

Noem announces 223 immigration arrests in roadway blitz with Indiana State Police • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said "Operation Midway Blitz" has yielded 3,000-plus arrests through deals with locals.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 4h

Noem announces 223 immigration arrests in roadway blitz with Indiana State Police • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said "Operation Midway Blitz" has yielded 3,000-plus arrests through deals with locals.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 2d

As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").

There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d

The federal government just dismissed charges against this woman who it had accused of deliberately attacking its agents and trying to kill them. Instead, it now appears they tried to murder her. Will Chicago or Illinois police prosecute?

Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 6d

I always tell my students that Republicans are the best postmodernists www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think.

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 6d

Wrong guay

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: In light of widespread allegations of civil rights violations arising from Trump's immigration crackdown, Democrats are renewing efforts to pass legislation to hold federal agents individually accountable:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Democrats target federal officials accused of civil rights violations in new legislation

Lawmakers are launching a new effort to close a legal loophole that means federal officials, including law enforcement agents, cannot be sued for constitutional violations.

www.nbcnews.com

Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 7d

The Supreme Court said in Almeida-Sanchez (1973) that the Border Patrol needs a warrant, consent, or probable cause to search, just like all other police. I cover that case in my book Nobody is Protected 2/2 counterpointpress.com/books/nobody-is-protected/ share.google/FVlBQJNnOkhp...

Nobody is Protected

An urgent look at the U.S. Border Patrol from its xenophobic founding to its assault on the Fourth Amendment in its quest to become a national police forceLate one July night in 2020, armed men, id…

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 7d

Helpful video from @boraerden.bsky.social on the different immigration police in the streets but there's one error. The Border Patrol's special authority is to stop but NOT search vehicles in the 100-mile zone 1/2 www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Video: How to Make Sense of Law Enforcement in the Streets

The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, o...

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Pedro Rios @pedroconsafos.bsky.social · 7d

In my latest piece, I look at the implications of Border Patrol usurping top command posts in ICE leadership...
"we can expect an expansion of egregious abuses — and a lack of accountability, opaqueness, and zero oversight."

Read more here @calmatters.org
calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Opinion | New ICE leadership brings more violence, no accountability and zero oversight

If Border Patrol leaders take over ICE, it's likely both agencies will continue avoiding repercussions for violence and deaths in custody.

calmatters.org

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 9d

This is the first big operation outside the 100-mile zone. Is anyone clear on what authorization the Border Patrol are using? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

U.S. Border Patrol Launches Operation in Charlotte

www.nytimes.com

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Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 10d

Recent news coverage of extremist media personality Nick Fuentes might give readers the impression his audience is booming in size. But after reviewing our data, our researchers have some serious doubts that’s the case.

openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...

Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17d

Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō.

A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.

Why we're using this spelling of Hawaiʻi

You may notice a change in how we spell Hawaiʻi and other Native Hawaiian words at The Seattle Times. Here's why.

www.seattletimes.com

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17d

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 19d

Christmas music currently playing in the waiting room I'm stuck in

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 25d

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 27d

In his book "Nobody is Protected," @reecejones.bsky.social documents how the Border Patrol became a dangerous national police force.

His findings are more relevant now than ever.