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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 13h

Please join me for a conversation *in 1 hour* with Johanna Maska, strategist, communications expert, and former Obama White House staffer. We'll be on Substack Live talking about the chaos of immigration enforcement happening in our country right now.

Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 15h

4pm eastern

Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 17h

Please join me for a conversation this afternoon with Johanna Maska, strategist, communications expert, and former Obama White House staffer. We'll be on Substack Live talking about the chaos of immigration enforcement happening in our country right now.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20h

Please join me for a conversation *TODAY* at 4pm eastern* with Johanna Maska, strategist, communications expert, and former Obama White House staffer. We'll be on Substack Live talking about the chaos of immigration enforcement happening in our country right now.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 21h

Today is the 22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy conference in DC, a gather of the immigration policy community in our nation's capital each year. If you are attending in-person, please say hello! Let's get down to business.

www.migrationpolicy.org/events/22ndi...

22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

This conference will feature thoughtful policy and legal analysis and discussion of some of the most important immigration issues that have surfaced in the U.S. policy debate.

www.migrationpolicy.org

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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend!

Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d

Please join me for a conversation *tomorrow October 9 at 4pm eastern* with Johanna Maska, strategist, communications expert, and former Obama White House staffer. We'll be on Substack Live talking about the chaos of immigration enforcement happening in our country right now.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d

In case you missed this heartbreaking story from yesterday, please read the thread below and consider sharing it with someone you know who might not be inclined to be compassionate about what’s happening around immigration to try to open up hearts.

Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

I've never seen anything like this in the history of American Families United. 💔

Please read this heartbreaking story of one of our deeply loved members and leaders, Julie Moreno, who just landed back in New Jersey this afternoon from a trip to Mexico.

Here's her story... 🧵 (Then please amplify.)

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d

Listen Now.🎙️🎧 - The Legal, Medical, and Moral Failings of Family Detention: A Conversation with Javier Hidalgo & Faisal Al-Juburi from RAICES Texas.

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The Legal, Medical, and Moral Failings of Family Detention: A Conversation with Javier Hidalgo & Faisal Al-Juburi from RAICES Texas

We are living through an era of exceptionally punitive immigration enforcement policies.

austinkocher.substack.com

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 2d

Hannah Arendt, out here writing as if she were alive today and watching America descend further into darkness.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 2d

Pecha Kucha: Involving Students in the Classroom by Kit Johnson.

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Pecha Kucha: Involving Students in the Classroom

This summer, immprof Beth Zilberman introduced me to an amazing teaching tool: Pecha Kucha. Pecha Kucha is a presentation format involving a slide deck with 20 slides each of which is visible for 20…

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the voices of families being torn apart by this administration's draconian practices.

Then tell these stories to anyone who will listen.

Hell, tell them to people who seem like they don't want to listen.

Call your electeds, make a plan to get into the streets for #NoKings on 10/18...

Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

I've never seen anything like this in the history of American Families United. 💔

Please read this heartbreaking story of one of our deeply loved members and leaders, Julie Moreno, who just landed back in New Jersey this afternoon from a trip to Mexico.

Here's her story... 🧵 (Then please amplify.)

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 2d

Migration Policy Institute: Trump Administration’s Expansion of Fast-Track Deportation Powers Is Transforming Immigration Enforcement

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Migration Policy Institute: Trump Administration’s Expansion of Fast-Track Deportation Powers Is Transforming Immigration Enforcement

Muzaffar Chishti and Kathleen Bush-Joseph for the Migration Policy Institute look at the Trump administration's expansion of expedited removal. The article reviews the history of expedited removal…

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

U.S Citizen Julie Moreno Returned to the United States Today, Preparing for Years of Separation from Her Husband Now in Mexico

Full press release below.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

Please share this story to that we can raise urgent awareness about this issue. And if you or someone you know is in a situation similar to Julie, please reach out to American Families United for support from people who truly understand what you're going through - and can help.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

AFU is made up of couples just like Julie and Nef. We know what these families go through.

But we’ve never seen anything like this.

Ever.

We desperately need Americans on both sides of the aisle to sit up and pay attention to the harm we are doing to citizens and their spouses.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

Julie is not the only AFU member grappling with this decision. Many of our members are forced to consider family separation like Julie and Nef.

Some are even choosing to leave the country with their spouses and live abroad due to the lack of legal pathways for their husbands and wives.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

All we want is for families in the United States to be together, for our family to be together. I love this country, but I don’t recognize it anymore. I feel like I’m being pushed out, as well. My relationship with this country feels like a one way street.”

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

After landing at Newark Airport, Julie said “I am relieved for his sake. But now that I’m back in the United States, I have no idea what my life will be like without him everyday. I know that we made the right decision, but in my gut I also feel really angry.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

Before Nef relocated to Mexico last week—a process sometimes called self-deportation—the couple had been pursuing ways for Nef, who has no criminal history, to get legal status. But the immigration system left them with no options.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

“Nef is a generous and devoted husband. We’re different in a lot of ways, but we agree on what’s right and wrong. And he always puts me first,” Julie said.

(photo from their goodbye at airport in MX this morning)

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

Contrary to popular myth, marrying a citizen does not guarantee someone a green card or a pathway to citizenship, forcing couples to decide between living in fear or living apart.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 2d

Julie and Nef, who have been married for nearly a decade, are just one of over a million mixed-status couples in the United States—couples where one person is a U.S. citizen and the other person could face sudden deportation.

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