OVERNIGHT: Senate Adopts "Eye-Watering" Enforcement Funding Framework Plus, a protest in Sackets Harbor, an op-ed from ICE detention by Mahmoud Khalil, and more. migrantinsider.com/p/eyewatering

Kansan deported after visiting grandfather’s grave in Mexico thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

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Inside the online effort to foil Trump’s deportation raids www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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NEW: Sweeping education bill adds scrutiny, surveillance, and barriers for global students from “countries of concern.” Story by @nicolaebutler.bsky.social for @migrantinsider.com — migrantinsider.com/p/deterrent-...

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Who are your favorite immigrants from American history?

NEW: Mills Proposes Citizenship Ban “No alien who enters the United States unlawfully shall be eligible for naturalization.” (w/ @nicolaebutler.bsky.social ) migrantinsider.com/p/mills-prop...

NEW: Tennessee state lawmakers have advanced a bill that would make illegal presence a crime. migrantinsider.com/p/tennessees...

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"ICE is unlawfully holding people in cages in Baltimore...for days and weeks" with "no access to blankets, mattresses, showers, or medical care" @thebaltimorebanner.com @wbaltv11.bsky.social @migrantinsider.com

@migrantinsider.com recently posted about the chairs & ranking members of immigration related committees and their general views on immigration. With their permission, we’ve reposted this extremely useful information: www.govtrack.us/posts/478/20...

NEW from me — DACA Confounds Senate Republicans, Gitmo Repurposed as ICE Detention Center, Trump Makes Criticizing Israel Deportable Plus, mixed-status families were separated by ICE in Texas and New Jersey. migrantinsider.com/p/daca-confo...

NEW AIC REPORT —  ICE’s Inadequate Recordkeeping on Treatment of Detained Asylum Seekers Threatens Their Lives immigrationimpact.com/2025/01/24/i...

FOX 13 (Tampa Bay): Undocumented immigration bill has Florida's governor, agriculture commissioner and legislation at odds The legislature's plan would designate the agriculture commissioner as the new Chief Immigration Officer. www.fox13news.com/news/undocum...

These are today's must-read #immigration news americasvoice.org/blog/immigra...

The weather is bitter cold in upstate New York - and the wind chill made it even worse. But farm workers are out there pruning apple trees. When workers got to the fields it was 12° and the high didn’t get past 18° on the day this pic was sent in. #WeFeedYou

Miami man claims wife was detained in one of several Florida ICE raids: "They snatched her" The man's wife, who's Venezuelan and has lived in the U.S. for years, had a court date set up to receive her U.S. citizenship and "everything was good" until that moment. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/s...

NEW from @migrantinsider.com — Raskin, AOC, and Tlaib Lead Opposition as Laken Riley Act Clears House The controversial anti-immigrant bill now heads to Trump's desk to be signed into law. migrantinsider.com/p/raskin-aoc...

NEW from @migrantinsider.com— Ami Bera: ‘Legal Immigration is America’s Strength, Not a Weakness’ In a wide-ranging interview, Rep. Ami Bera shares his personal immigrant story and ideas for fixing the H1B visa system. migrantinsider.com/p/ami-bera-l...

Someone actually used the word “sanctuary” properly @migrantinsider.com open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

NEW from @migrantinsider.com — Breaking Down Colombian-Born Bernie Moreno's Anti-Asylum Senate Bill We finally got the bill text for S.200, aka the “RULES Act" (SCOOP). migrantinsider.com/p/breaking-d...

My oil painting of Jimmy Carter lying in state in the Capitol rotunda.

REP. SARAH McBRIDE sides with immigrants, votes against the Laken Riley Act, tells @migrantinsider.com that her concern is that the bill creates no due process to protect people caught up in its dragnet.

NEW from @migrantinsider.com — Fetterman Abandons Promise to Protect Dreamers Plus, Gallego lies to Fox News about the Laken Riley Act. w/ @nicolaebutler.bsky.social migrantinsider.com/p/fetterman-...

BLOOMBERG: Promise of Trump Deportations Prompt Union 'Rapid Response' Plans at AFL-CIO www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Forgot to post this earlier, but JOHN FETTERMAN told @nicolaebutler.bsky.social that Dreamers remain his line in the sand when it comes to supporting immigration enforcement legislation. That is, if a bill harms Dreamers, he will NOT vote for it. Period. Full stop. More at @migrantinsider.com.

NEW from @migrantinsider.com — H1B Reform Divides House GOP, Draws Democratic Optimism Plus, MTG slams woke-right Internet trolls. w/ @nicolaebutler.bsky.social migrantinsider.com/p/h1b-reform...

NEW from @capitol.press — How Elon Musk can win H1B reform But only if Trump backs DOGE's play in Congress to the bitter end, especially in the House (No Paywall) migrantinsider.com/p/how-elon-m...

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NEW from @capitol.press —  Bernie Sanders Slams H1B Visas in Anti-Immigrant Screed migrantinsider.com/p/bernie-sla...

Honoring unsung farm worker movement hero Ralph Magaña. For more about Ralph and for memorial service information go to: ufw.org/ralphmagana/

NEW from @capitol.press —  Bernie Sanders Slams H1B Visas in Anti-Immigrant Screed migrantinsider.com/p/bernie-sla...

THE HILL: MAGA civil war erupts between Musk, critics over H-1B visas thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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@austinkocher.com does super important academic work on the federal deportation machine. consider supporting his newsletter here —  austinkocher.substack.com/p/act-now-to...

That time Barack "Deporter-in-Chief" Obama gave Tom Homan the Presidential Rank Award for achieving "sustained extraordinary results" in growing and deploying the federal deportation force (ICE-ERO). The past is prologue, it seems... www.ice.gov/news/release...

Migrant policy watchers/wonks — what proposals do you anticipate catching steam (or not) for green card backloggers? Lots of chatter about country caps ... less about actual green card proposals ... but what do you think will/won't be in play? www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

POLITICO: Musk influence sparks fresh talk in Congress on high-skilled immigrants www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

WAPO: Trump’s top border adviser says he will bring back family detention www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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IMMIGRATION LAB: The Inequalities of Humanitarian Parole theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/the-i...

“Last, [President Biden's] Department of Homeland Security can expedite the asylum claims of the parents and children torn apart under the Trump administration’s family separation policy, who remain vulnerable to the president-elect’s promised mass deportations.”

“Mr. Biden’s administration can also pause immigration court hearings and administratively close cases, removing families and children from the immediate threat of mass deportation.”

NEW from me — Republican Lawmakers Divided Over Using Military for Mass Deportations Plus, @raskin.house.gov name-drops the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. migrantinsider.com/p/republican...

NEW from me — Chip Roy Breaks Down Republicans' Plan to Fund Mass Deportations Our candid Q&A with the Texas firebrand migrantinsider.com/p/chip-roy-m...

This is a great piece. But it's not just the Constitution, the law, and the Supreme Court that say birthright is the law of the land, it's also been true since the Founding, and even dates back to ancient English common law. Here's what one judge said in 1844 about the question.