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Caroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social · Jun 5

For @thenation.com, I wrote about Alice Driver’s book, The Death and Life of the American Worker, about Mexican and Central immigrant organizing in the poultry processing plants of Arkansas—an important contribution to US labor journalism:
www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A Generation of Injustice at Tyson Foods

Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.

www.thenation.com

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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · Jun 5

In a new article with Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock, and Weston Ley, we find growing double penalties in crime-based removal proceedings, racial disparities in detention and removal outcomes, and more favorable outcomes for non-white immigrants with same-race judges:

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · May 21

ICE camping outside immigration courts to arrest people is one way to get around court proceedings & expedite removals. And it's a double-edged sword -- if this scares people away from court they'll be up for automatic removal anyway, @mattcameron.bsky.social said theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests

The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 6

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in a “timely manner” citizens who were being deported by the Trump administration. Follow updates. nyti.ms/42wKSAx

Marco Rubio is wearing a dark suit with an American flag pin. A headline reads: "Rubio Cancels Visas for South Sudanese in Dispute Over Deportations." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · Mar 30

My discussion with Gustavo Solis for KPBS/NPR: "When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives."

Read/listen/watch here: www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives

An immigration expert analyzes the statistical impact of Trump's immigration policies, ICE funding increases and immigration data manipulation shaping public narratives.

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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · Mar 29

Higher education should absolutely *not* act this way in light of the graduate student arrests we’ve seen at Tufts, Alabama, Minnesota, Columbia, and a growing number of schools. And yet here we are. Faculty and admin must work together to value and protect our students.

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · Mar 29

Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus

Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to “intervene” in ICE detainments

A memo sent by the Office of General Council at Johns Hopkins instructs faculty and staff not to intervene if federal law enforcement detain a community member on campus.

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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · Mar 26

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · Mar 15

White House declaring that any Venezuelan man/teenager 14 years or older, who (the government says) is a member of Tren de Aragua, and who isn’t a citizen or green card holder, are “subject to immediate apprehension, detention and removal.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · Mar 13

When you have the chance, please read this informative essay by @austinkocher.com on the Mahmoud Khalil deportation case. ⬇️

And, many thanks to Austin for including "Threat of Dissent" in his essay's thoughtful synthesis & excellent analysis of the case.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/your-intro...

Your Introduction to Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation Case and the Legal Battle Ahead

This post focuses on the fundamentals of Mahmoud Khalil’s case, including the core legal and ethical questions, why attorneys are already calling it "sloppy", and why this is really about Marco Rubio.

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Dan Kowalski @skiramen.bsky.social · Mar 13

Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention

Khalil will likely stay at notorious ICE facility in Louisiana until at least March 17.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · Mar 10

Mahmoud Khalil is being held in an ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, according to ICE’s Detainee Locator webpage.

Thank you to @petrulis.bsky.social for flagging this.

locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search

Screenshot from ICE web site, searching "Detainee locator" tool for Mahmoud Khalil. Results state that Khalil is being held in ICE Custody in the State of Louisiana, at the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jan 30

In 1993, the Supreme Court said that immigration court proceedings are “domestic procedures ” which are not relevant outside the United States, specifically as relates to people detained at Guantánamo Bay. So I just can’t see how it would be legal to use Gitmo for “domestic” ICE detention purposes.

Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc., 509 U.S. 155 (1993). In sum, all available evidence about the meaning of § 243(h)-the Government official at whom it is directed, its location in the Act, its failure to suggest any extraterritorial application, the 1980 amendment that gave it a dual reference to "deport or return," and the relevance of that dual structure to immigration law in general-leads unerringly to the conclusion that it applies in only one context: the domestic procedures by which the Attorney General determines whether deportable and excludable aliens may remain in the United States.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · Jan 22

It's a real honor that @prismreports.bsky.social was able to publish this piece today by the brilliant Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, who argues that "election postmortems that do not address xenophobia do not get to the heart of the 2024 election." Please read and share widely.

Xenophobia isn’t rational, but it is very reassuring

For people untouched by the Trump administration’s policies, the shift to authoritarianism will mostly feel aesthetic

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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández @ccgarciahernandez.bsky.social · Jan 22

Trump's early moves on immigration policy signal that DHS is likely to detain and forcibly remove more migrants without a criminal history just like during Trump’s first term. Read more at Immigration Law Unhinged open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/c...

Immigration Law Unhinged, January 22, 2025, addresses Trump's early immigration moves which are not focused on criminal history.

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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · Jan 21

Our story on the stunning firings at the U.S. immigration court:

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

Trump Administration Fires Immigration Judges as Crackdown Begins

Four immigration court officials were removed from their positions on Monday. It’s unclear who is in charge at this point.

www.nytimes.com

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · Jan 9

This is absolutely wild, and a horrible loss at just about the worst time.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jan 9

In sad news, TRAC, the immigration court data portal which has been a vital resource for years, appears to be completely down following its departure from Syracuse University. It's unclear when (or if) it will come back.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jan 9

In sad news, TRAC, the immigration court data portal which has been a vital resource for years, appears to be completely down following its departure from Syracuse University. It's unclear when (or if) it will come back.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Jan 3

Please forgive a little earnest-posting.

I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · Dec 11

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Her Nephew Died Crossing the Border. She Plays Basketball to Save Others Like Him. - Documented

This NYC basketball team, dubbed the “female chaplains of the desert” funnels donations to volunteers who search for lost migrants at the border.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Dec 11

At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

Stop using generative AI as a search engine

Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.

www.theverge.com

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Don’t talk to ICE @amytorres.bsky.social · Dec 10

I’m at the Senate Judiciary hearing on Mass Deportations with @njaij.bsky.social.

🧵🪡Thread incoming:

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · Dec 10

Check out the latest DHS Climate Change & Health Research Hub post, which discusses the importance of supplementing spatial analyses with qualitative methods! tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...

Incorporating Qualitative Methods into Spatial Health Research

Spatiotemporal research is enhanced when guided by local knowledge, perspective, and expertise.

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Jane Devlin @bostonmigration.bsky.social · Dec 9

Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on impact of mass deportations. Watch livestream Tuesday December 10 at 10am: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Dec 9

Me when starting to read this book review: "Why would any sane person want to read a whole book about principal component analysis"

Me after finishing this excellent book review: "WTF inject it right into my veins"
loreley.one/2024-09-pca/

Book Review: Unraveling Principal Component Analysis

A collection of projects, essays and thoughts

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Chris Levesque @cmlevesque.bsky.social · Dec 5

Ohioans, for more information on how to get involved and speak to your representative, see this resource: lameduck.wtf

#immigration #sociology #ohio

Take Action: Ohio Lame Duck 2024

Take Action: Ohio Lame Duck 2024 Updated Thursday 12/5/24 at 12:30 pm Thank you to Ohioans Against Extremism for sponsoring this crucial work Want something added to this document? Email Rachel@OHAgai...

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