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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At @priec.bsky.social this morning — @fulyafelicity.bsky.social presenting on the ways that authoritarian regimes engage their diasporas and how those emigrants respond (or don’t!)

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People

New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

Most of the sheriffs signing up are in red states or from Republican-led areas of blue states, like Nassau County in New York.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.

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New from me: At the anti-ICE demonstrations in June, CHP and LASD fired 9,600 projectiles and chemical munitions at protesters. Tear gas, flash bangs, rubber bullets, and more! Read moreL
www.joeyscott.xyz/anti-ice-dem...

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In most countries, people who want to help refugees can't do so legally.

My new piece explores how the idea of private sponsorship empowers citizens to channel their humanitarian motivations, and why that can make refugee admissions more sustainable.

alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/why-dont-y...

please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals

As feds ramp up immigration enforcement in D.C., police allow more cooperation via @washingtonpost.com

Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.

California Highway Patrol also has access to Flock license plate readers outside Home Depot and Lowes.

We’ve also seen non-US cars and cars w/ dealership frames (e.g. a Subaru; a Ford Expedition with a local dealership frame) used by ICE/BP. Someone who knows more than me about this please help me understand — are these all just rentals? Or deliberately procured to obscure that it’s DHS on the road?

DOJ dropped a hot new definition of a sanctuary city/state, and I wrote up a little review.

open.substack.com/pub/behindth...

New issue from #Identities!

Special Issue: The Exclusion and Political Engagement of Ethnic Minorities in Deliberative and Representative Democracy, plus a symposium on The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities

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NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.

She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

This special issue invites contributors from across the disciplines to share their research and creative scholarship in zine form.
archivespublishing.com/2025/07/31/c...

This may be my favorite solo-authored piece ever, using found poetry, word clouds and narrative to contribute to a portrait of two #AsianAmerican teachers and their experiences with racialization prior to and through the COVID-19 pandemic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

At $600 million per year for 5,000 detainees, the Everglades detention facility would cost a whopping $328.77 per bed per day.

ICE's 2025 budget request read: "Average adult bed cost per day is $187.48 for FY 2023."

reason.com/2025/07/09/l...

For context the government of the United States is illegally sending 8 people to a place where they are likely to be tortured or killed on the 4th of July

some folks are citing conviction rates among detainees just to point out that DHS is indiscriminately abducting people (true), but we also should be careful not to give elites opportunities to perpetuate good/bad immigrant rhetoric that DREAMers worked hard to dump in the latter half of the movement

hey actually it doesn’t matter if someone has a criminal conviction! fundamentally, they’re still a person and should therefore have their rights recognized and upheld!! hope this helps!!!!!!

When immigration data becomes political theater. Immigration researcher Austin Kocher warns that reporting arrest quotas without context can amplify administration messaging.

www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...