Jane Devlin
@bostonmigration.bsky.social
Boston-based, immigration-obsessed; Posts on immigration, Boston, refugees. Retired canonist. AILA, CLSA. Reaction to most news: Cui bono?
January 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Exactly what economists warned us about. Immigration is central to stability and growth for many industries, and this immigration crackdown is hurting employment for US citizens
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration
Government data show the Trump administration’s policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Exactly what economists warned us about. Immigration is central to stability and growth for many industries, and this immigration crackdown is hurting employment for US citizens
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
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The Trump administration's deportation hysteria is making America less safe. 28k+ agents diverted to ICE. Child exploitation cases abandoned. 80% of ATF reassigned. We need politicians to work together to get this country back on track. Good work by Sam Levin.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US abandons child exploitation and drug cases to prioritize ICE, Democrats allege
Exclusive: Letter decries ‘stunning abdication of basic responsibilities’ and demands to know how many officers diverted
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The Trump administration's deportation hysteria is making America less safe. 28k+ agents diverted to ICE. Child exploitation cases abandoned. 80% of ATF reassigned. We need politicians to work together to get this country back on track. Good work by Sam Levin.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Minnesota "Operation Metro Surge": 670+ arrested in 2 weeks. Targets? Hardware stores. Gyms. Traffic stops. Schools. People detained include: Turkish citizen (no record), Somali torture survivor (no record), father of U.S. Marine (no record).
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Dozens of immigrants detained by ICE going to court to request release
ICE has released the names of a fraction of the more than 670 it has reported to have arrested during the immigration enforcement sweep that began Dec. 1. An MPR News analysis of federal court…
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January 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Minnesota "Operation Metro Surge": 670+ arrested in 2 weeks. Targets? Hardware stores. Gyms. Traffic stops. Schools. People detained include: Turkish citizen (no record), Somali torture survivor (no record), father of U.S. Marine (no record).
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Sudden displacement crises temporarily overwhelm steady-state accommodation systems. In a new paper, we document that pop-up shelters and private hosting scaled fast and housed the vast majority of arrivals during the peak of the Ukrainian displacement crisis (1/2)
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Mette Foged, Jens Hainmueller,
@mstahlschmidt.bsky.social & Edith Zink show how initial accommodation conditions shape refugee integration, using quasi-experimental evidence from Ukrainians in Denmark.
🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...
Mette Foged, Jens Hainmueller,
@mstahlschmidt.bsky.social & Edith Zink show how initial accommodation conditions shape refugee integration, using quasi-experimental evidence from Ukrainians in Denmark.
🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...
December 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sudden displacement crises temporarily overwhelm steady-state accommodation systems. In a new paper, we document that pop-up shelters and private hosting scaled fast and housed the vast majority of arrivals during the peak of the Ukrainian displacement crisis (1/2)
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"The government spends $3,500 per individual self-deportation...But critics argue there are other prices attached, both financial and personal...For one, immigrants are thought to contribute nearly $580 billion per year in taxes." https://bit.ly/3YaMj4T
The true cost of self-deportation
The Department of Homeland Security has branded self-deportation a ‘dignified’ route out of the country. But advocates warn those who choose to do so may not be able to return for years — or at all. K...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"The government spends $3,500 per individual self-deportation...But critics argue there are other prices attached, both financial and personal...For one, immigrants are thought to contribute nearly $580 billion per year in taxes." https://bit.ly/3YaMj4T
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Across red, blue, and purple states, a quiet bipartisan consensus is forming—immigrant workforce participation is an economic necessity.
We're proud to release our comprehensive, 50-state review of policy activity in this area from 2020–2024!
We're proud to release our comprehensive, 50-state review of policy activity in this area from 2020–2024!
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Across red, blue, and purple states, a quiet bipartisan consensus is forming—immigrant workforce participation is an economic necessity.
We're proud to release our comprehensive, 50-state review of policy activity in this area from 2020–2024!
We're proud to release our comprehensive, 50-state review of policy activity in this area from 2020–2024!
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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Illinois just limited immigration arrests in public spaces and created a path to sue for constitutional violations. This is what state-level accountability looks like when federal enforcement keeps overreaching.
Read: www.jurist.org/news/2025/12...
Read: www.jurist.org/news/2025/12...
Illinois restricts immigration arrests in public venues, permits lawsuits for constitutional violations
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed HB 1312 into law on Tuesday, establishing protections which limit civil immigration enforcement activities across multiple public settings throughout the state.…
www.jurist.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Illinois just limited immigration arrests in public spaces and created a path to sue for constitutional violations. This is what state-level accountability looks like when federal enforcement keeps overreaching.
Read: www.jurist.org/news/2025/12...
Read: www.jurist.org/news/2025/12...
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What the WSJ calls out directly is the structural contradiction: the U.S. needs more workers, yet our politics keep cutting off the very channels that supply them
Read: www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Read: www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What the WSJ calls out directly is the structural contradiction: the U.S. needs more workers, yet our politics keep cutting off the very channels that supply them
Read: www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Read: www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
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Employer verification has been touted as a way to end the jobs magnet attracting unauthorized immigrants to the US
But critics say the E-Verify system is flawed and wrongly ensnares many workers, U.S. born and immigrant alike
https://bit.ly/43HLhR4
But critics say the E-Verify system is flawed and wrongly ensnares many workers, U.S. born and immigrant alike
https://bit.ly/43HLhR4
Employment Verification: The Next Front for U.S. Immigration Enforcement?
E-Verify has been heralded as a key way to control unauthorized immigration to the United States, but federal efforts to expand the system stalled. There has been movement at the state level over the past decade, though, and there are signs it may ri...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Employer verification has been touted as a way to end the jobs magnet attracting unauthorized immigrants to the US
But critics say the E-Verify system is flawed and wrongly ensnares many workers, U.S. born and immigrant alike
https://bit.ly/43HLhR4
But critics say the E-Verify system is flawed and wrongly ensnares many workers, U.S. born and immigrant alike
https://bit.ly/43HLhR4
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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So much of Thanksgiving happens long before any of us sit down at the table. Long before the turkey hits the oven or the pie is sliced, immigrant farmworkers and meatpacking workers have already put in the labor that makes these traditions possible.
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✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social + @yunao08.bsky.social
This Year, Remember To Thank The Unseen Guests At Our Thanksgiving Table
Thank you for feeding us.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
So much of Thanksgiving happens long before any of us sit down at the table. Long before the turkey hits the oven or the pie is sliced, immigrant farmworkers and meatpacking workers have already put in the labor that makes these traditions possible.
✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social + @yunao08.bsky.social
✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social + @yunao08.bsky.social
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Thank you, Juanito. 🌱 #WeFeedYou
"Juanito" shares, "I am an irrigator. Right now my job is to water the celery so it will be ready to harvest for Thanksgiving. It is thanks to us farm workers, and the hard work we do in the fields, the holiday produce which so many enjoy will be on our tables." #WeFeedYou
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thank you, Juanito. 🌱 #WeFeedYou
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“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
A mother shares the terrifying reality that her internationally adopted son, raised in the U.S. since childhood, could be detained or deported by ICE because he was never granted citizenship. 35-70k adoptees remain in this legal limbo. Urge Congress to pass the PAAF Act. 🥚
I'm A U.S. Citizen. I'm Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.
"I lie awake at night worried that he’ll be snatched off the street and taken to a nightmarish prison in some other country, and I’ll never see him again."
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November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
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"The father of four, an immigrant from Afghanistan who helped the U.S. military fight the Taliban, is in a Springfield, Missouri, jail — held with other immigrants picked up in nationwide sweeps. Dadfar is 37 and an asylum-seeker with work authorization." https://bit.ly/4rxmaL8.
Afghan asylum seeker who fought the Taliban now held by ICE in Missouri
A Kansas City-based immigration attorney has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mohammad Ali Dadfar’s warrantless arrest and detention. Hundreds of immigrant detainees have been ordered released beca...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"The father of four, an immigrant from Afghanistan who helped the U.S. military fight the Taliban, is in a Springfield, Missouri, jail — held with other immigrants picked up in nationwide sweeps. Dadfar is 37 and an asylum-seeker with work authorization." https://bit.ly/4rxmaL8.
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“what wasn’t always fully considered was that the choking-off of immigration would reduce labor demand as well: The immigrants who aren’t here because of Mr. Trump’s policies not only aren’t working here; they’re also not spending money here.”
Opinion | We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like
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November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“what wasn’t always fully considered was that the choking-off of immigration would reduce labor demand as well: The immigrants who aren’t here because of Mr. Trump’s policies not only aren’t working here; they’re also not spending money here.”
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I wrote about the end of the end of true visa-free travel between rich countries.
The Travel Authorization Edition
On inter-village visas, the new ETIAS system, and the true end of the end of an era.
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I wrote about the end of the end of true visa-free travel between rich countries.
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'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record www.commondreams.org/news/worst-o...
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record | Common Dreams
Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record www.commondreams.org/news/worst-o...