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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 11h

Increasingly large portions of the US government have effectively been turned into immigration (restriction/enforcement) offices, including now apparently 1/4 of the FBI

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in about 70 years, net immigration to America could be zero. Beneath the noise of tariff and budget fights, migration may well be the biggest economic story of 2025.

My latest for @economist.com: Welcome to Zero Migration America

Link: www.economist.com/finance-and...

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 6d

The US government assigned a special immigration enforcement team to target college students involved in protests against the war in Gaza.

It assembled more than 100 reports on protesters
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

U.S. used a transnational crime unit to secretly target campus protesters

A Tufts University graduate student was among those targeted after the Trump administration created a “tiger team” to investigate pro-Palestinian activists.

www.washingtonpost.com

Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 7d

"the effort in Washington shows how migrants stopped by local law enforcement for low-level infractions can swiftly be detained by ICE — a boost for an agency struggling to meet the White House’s demands for higher arrest numbers."

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 7d

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data.

We detail how that happened:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 9d

"While many of those detained have immediately declared their U.S. citizenship to officers, they have routinely been ignored.." In some cases citizens were handcuffed and held in detention overnight

Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 9d

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

www.nytimes.com

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 9d

You can preorder the book from The New Press here, or whenever you buy books. It will be published on January 6. I can't wait to put it out into the world
thenewpress.org/books/shelte...

Shelter from the Storm - The New Press

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated BookAn urgent wake-up call about the coming large-scale human displacement caused by climate change, from one of the world’s leading experts Mere decades from now, mil...

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 9d

Very smart and kind people whom I respect very much called Shelter from the Storm "troubling and powerful," "forceful and vivid," "with masterful storytelling and insightful explanations."

"A must read for everyone concerned with climate change and migration."

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 9d

But the book isn't sensationalist

People have always moved for all sorts of reasons, and will continue to do so. What's new about climate change is not that people are moving, but that many are doing so in a harried, haphazard manner for which our legal systems are entirely unprepared

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 9d

I've been working on the book for several years. It's got reporting from multiple continents, including drought-stricken Guatemalan coffee farmers & Bangladeshi families whose houses were wiped out by cyclones

Many have already begun to move somewhere more accommodating

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 9d

I am so incredibly thrilled to say that my book is coming out in January!

Shelter from the Storm is a deep, sprawling overview of the ways that climate change is creating a new era of human migration

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 10d

"Before, we didn’t see children enrolling in school... There is more permanence now.”

Deterred from the US, more asylum seekers and other migrants are starting to build new lives in Mexico

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

For those deterred by Trump, can the American dream become the Mexican dream?

Not only are Trump’s policies pushing many migrants to request asylum in Mexico, but US aid cuts are making their integration there even harder.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 13d

“Spoiler alert: we found that public institutions in large, Republican-leaning states are disproportionately affected by the policy.”

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 13d

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…

www.thexylom.com

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 12d

one reason these courthouse arrests/confrontations are so common now is bc authorities do administrative two-steps to toss out ongoing deportation cases (which take a long time) & deport people thru fast-track expedited removals (which can take a couple hours)
www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 21d

that FT chart showing that incumbent parties all lost voter share in 2024 but that dems actually did relatively well

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 22d

just discovered this dashboard of climate mobility legal cases internationally, which is a super cool resource

www.global-council.org/climate-data...

The Climate Mobility Case Database | GSLC

www.global-council.org

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Semafor @semafor.com · 26d

Ghana becomes latest African nation to accept US deportees

www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Ghana becomes latest African nation to accept US deportees

The West African country said it had accepted 14 migrants deported from the US as part of a bilateral agreement with Washington.

www.semafor.com

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 26d

the Trump administration reportedly wants to sharply limit the international right to asylum at the UN

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Exclusive: Trump administration plans push at UN to restrict global asylum rights

President Donald Trump's administration plans to call for sharply narrowing the right to asylum at the United Nations later this month, documents show, as it seeks to undo the post-World War Two framework around humanitarian protection.

www.reuters.com

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 27d

The costly failure of the CBP Home self-deportation app

According to an NBC News analysis, in the five weeks following its implementation, only 356 people used it to voluntarily leave the country, and no further data has been published since then

english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

The costly failure of the CBP Home self-deportation app

According to an NBC News analysis, in the five weeks following its implementation, only 356 people used it to voluntarily leave the country, and no further data has been published since then

english.elpais.com

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 28d

Fabrizio Romano-ing NATO action

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28d

Meanwhile on TruthSocial...

President Trump channels Jerry Seinfeld in bizarre, way-late post.

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 29d

"Some neighborhoods will retreat and others will be protected, and still others – often lower-income communities – may be left behind."

This is, in essence, the story of climate migration worldwide at every scale: Some people get new seawalls, other people move, and the worst off get stuck in place

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 29d

‘Entire neighborhoods will have to move’: growth collides with rising seas in Charleston

Residents worry new developments – including a sea wall planned to shield the city’s historic center – could push floodwaters into their communities

www.theguardian.com

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · Sep 8

40% of shadow docket cases under Trump have been about immigration

A significant factor for everything that has happened the last 9 months

Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · Sep 8

That makes 10 SCOTUS orders on immigration from the emergency docket under Trump 2.0, out of 25 orders total, per @stevevladeck.bsky.social 's chart

(birthright citizenship consolidated 3 cases, btw)

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration.

See if you can spot the pattern...

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · Sep 5

amazing story

trying to imagine what would happen if a bunch of north korean soldiers showed up on a rocky beach in california and killed three people in the middle of the night

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart

www.nytimes.com

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · Sep 3

As this blog notes, this move is almost surely at least in part an economic one, aimed at bringing in diaspora money/investment

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢 New blog Alert!

🇧🇯 In 2024, Benin adopted a law granting people of African descent nationality "by recognition" 🌍

Why does it matter & how does it work? 🤔

Eric Codjo Montcho Agbassa & Renaud Fiacre Avlessi break down its context, key provisions, legal effects & appeal ⚖️

🔗 tinyurl.com/bdff8ud4

Benin: A New Law on the Recognition of Nationality for People of African Descent - Globalcit

In 2024, Benin adopted a law offering people of African descent the opportunity to acquire nationality ‘by recognition’. In this blog post, Eric Codjo Montcho Agbassa and Renaud Fiacre Avlessi discuss...

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · Sep 3

Even before the start of President Trump's surge, D.C. had the most police per-capita of any U.S. city. By a quite a bit.

And that's just counting the city's force, not the huge array of other police agencies here. The Capitol Police, also in D.C., is bigger than Baltimore's police department.

Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bowser starts with talking about MPD's staffing, currently at 3,200. "We have a lot of room to grow our department," she says. Her goal is to get to 4,000 eventually. "We need to add hundreds more police." There are 135 recruits this year, she says.

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