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. But... /1

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...

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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 www.tandfonline.com/...#Identities! @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

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

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...

🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered! - $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities). - $45 billion for ICE detention - $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement Grand total: $170.7 billion.

Just read “Estate Sale” by Dan Murphy (dmurphy.bsky.social). One of the best poetry collections I’ve read in a long time. Focused but expansive, formally adept but varied, personal but relatable. A thing of beauty. Highly recommend.

Migration, non-citizen status, and deportation are a big part of Black America's history, going beyond US borders. Still, nativism and xenophobia distort and derail. Let's deepen our understanding of what history tells us. I wrote about this for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/06/25/b...

NEW: "If ICE is holding 59,000 immigrants in civil detention across the country, it would be the highest number on record that I'm aware of," said Austin Kocher, a professor at Syracuse University who studies the U.S. immigration system. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-rec...

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I'm loving all the videos of yesterday's protest but especially this wedding party that decided to join in

“An Ode to Los Jornaleros” by Jose Hernandez Diaz

I published an oped on what's happening in my beloved Los Angeles, and more importantly, what we all ought to do about it. Please read and share as appropriate. truthout.org/articles/la-... #ICEoutofLA

Really makes me feel super safe and relaxed when my morning walk to get coffee (in Santa Ana) is flanked by the National Guard Also not at all anxious that they’re hanging out by the local Latino health center /s

Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

"I was just walking," one zip-tied man said. The bus holding those apprehended just turned on the internal lights. Before, those inside were sitting in the dark.

The band is Los Jornaleros del Norte (yes, they are actually day laborers)! I’d recognize their cool truck anywhere — they drove ahead of the ICE Out of CA march in Sac last December. Highly recommend listening to their albums and/or blasting them at your local actions: losjornalerosdelnorte.com

How does immigration relate to welfare states and public opinion about access to welfare? @mfreino.bsky.social, @isabel-ruiz.bsky.social and I have a new open-access review of the evidence in @oxrepjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/oxre... #polisky #econsky #socsky #migcitsky 1/n

we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term. "When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

“Pls be witnesses. Take pictures. Document everything. Take names. Remember what you see,” @ndlon.bsky.social says. “We need to reach out to relatives of those who have been seized. These are our ppl they are taking, & we do this work out of love for them, for their worth.” ndlon.org/statement-fr...

Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social

Chinga la migra.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.

let history reflect that asian americans have been forced to have and continue have a huge role in defining the contours of citizenship in this country and at great cost. i say this because in many spaces there is erasure of this truth to perpetuate a narrative. that narrative only serves the 1%.

a really underrated reason why some local law enforcement are opposed to cooperating with federal immigration enforcement may just be that local public employees in general seem to dislike when state/federal actors come in and big-league local staff on matters related to their own jurisdictions

Important findings: Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety by W. Carsten Andresen. theconversation.com/surge-of-ice...

They haven’t been replaced with Proud Boys, this is the same ICE as Bush, Obama, and Biden. They took the job because they enjoy abusing people who can’t fight back. They have always been willing to be as violent and abusive as a President will allow. History didn’t start in 2017, or 2025.