Our friends at @haymarketbooks.org are holding an online discussion on the struggle to dismantle the immigrant detention system. With @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social! Register for link to the livestreamed video the day of the event:

Great discussion with @jwashing.bsky.social on his new book How to Close a Camp www.theborderchronicle.com/why-local-pr...

My next book SMUGGLER is out October 20! “Timely, stranger-than-fiction, and impossible to put down – truly a book for our dizzying moment” – Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth Available for preorder now 🙏 : www.simonandschuster.com/books/Smuggl...

New book drops in one week. Find info and events at johnwashington.substack.com @haymarketbooks.org

Just got a troubling phishing attempt from someone impersonating Susanna Porter at @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social They're such enticing, clickable outreaches, playing into the hopes of authors. Careful folks! And appreciate the warning on your website, Penguin.

How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Join @jwashing.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, and @danieldenvir.bsky.social for this virtual conversation hosted with @detentionwatchnetwork.org and @thedigradio.bsky.social RSVP to attend:

NAFTA didn't just move goods across the border. It rebuilt the land itself. As USMCA's future hangs in question, Caroline Tracey drives through Baja California during Tijuana Art Week, tracing free trade's marks on maquiladora boomtowns and abandoned housing tracts. Read full article🔗🦂:

We're excited to start unveiling the panels for #NoWar2026! First up: Migration is Beautiful: The Case for Open Borders, featuring Harsha Walia, Gracie Mae Bradley, and @jwashing.bsky.social, moderated by Dr. Mujib Abid. More info: buff.ly/mRMVMxO

Latest newsletter, on Eugene Delcroix's novel Small Boat, the dangers of bystanderism, and the recent DOJ indictments against community defenders in Minnesota: johnwashington.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

Honored to have talked to @mattshuham.bsky.social about what a better, more humane, and just immigration system could look like.

Ftr I think organizing community disaster preparedness is one of the most essential maneuvers we can make politically right now, both in terms of opening constructive conversations around the climate crisis in our communities and creating essential connective social tissue for this era of crisis.

Ten minutes out from Arizona's GOP gubernatorial debate. Join me for some drunken live-blogging for @lookoutnews.bsky.social 🥃🍷🍺 Follow along here: www.lookoutnews.org/join-our-dru...

Yall speaking straight to my heart 🖤🦇♥️ @theborderchronicle.bsky.social & @max-pearl.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com/vampires-wit...

Latest newsletter, on the complications and nuances of empathy: open.substack.com/pub/johnwash...

I wrote about shutting down Delaney Hall (with reference to the forthcoming book HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP)

@detentionwatchnetwork.org “has identified points of intervention at each stage of immigration camp operation and expansion. Its tool kit on how to challenge ICE’s warehouse expansion details specific permits and ordinances required; venues in which those can be fought; +

“The immigration camp, it really depends on a lot of local infrastructure. It is not this untouchable federal abstraction. It is up to us, neighbors, community members, and we have the actual power to shut them down.” @jwashing.bsky.social talks to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

“There was a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer, not getting medical treatment. He wants to leave, go back home, spend his final months...with his family. But they just won’t let him go.”

I had a great conversation about immigration camps with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for @truthout.org's Movement Memos podcast

The murders continue. 1 more dead, 2 missing at sea. 195 civilians killed overall.

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COVER REVEAL 📚 How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by @jwashing.bsky.social Releasing July 21st wherever good books are sold (or borrowed). Available for pre-order now.

Glad to be pushing the language around immigration detention. @themarshallproject.org referenced a recent chat I had with @austinkocher.com about what to call these facilities. I advocate for using the term "camp" as in... Immigration Camp Detention Camp www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/04/i...

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall DHS was in talks with the wildlife refuge that hosts the ancient site to make sure it was protected, a local archeologist said. theintercept.com/2026/04/30/a...

On the snares and snakes lying in wait for migrants navigating the broken immigration system open.substack.com/pub/johnwash...

A federal judge dismisses DOJ's lawsuit to force Arizona to disclose its voter rolls, siding with (Dem) SoS Fontes. Her ruling ends with, "The Court will dismiss the Attorney General’s claim with prejudice because amendment would be legally futile." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE arrested a pregnant woman last November in Phoenix, refused her clean water or sufficient medical care, she claims, and then she miscarried. Five months later, she remains in detention. My latest for @lookoutnews.bsky.social @phoenixnewtimes.com www.lookoutnews.org/ice-said-she...

With Hope Pisoni, I looked into how states are helping to fund anti-LGBTQI hate groups through license plate sales. In AZ, in just five years, the Alliance Defending Freedom has earned about $1.5 million from sales. For LOOKOUT and @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social www.lookoutnews.org/state-progra...

Major update in the case of Karla Saenz, the transgender asylum seeker who was held for over a month in a men's detention center in Eloy, Arizona. A judge has ordered her immediate release. Story for Lookout: www.lookoutnews.org/judge-orders...

As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.

Should we refer to ICE detention centers as “concentration camps” - or is this even the right way to ask the question? John Washington and I explored this in a wide-ranging conversation today. Listen here + what do you think? austinkocher.substack.com/p/centers-or...

Have a book on exactly this, and the long history of that pushback, that is shortly forthcoming. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2880-h... @haymarketbooks.org

It's my birthday and I'd like everyone to subscribe to one worker-owned/nonprofit outlet (pick @404media.co, @hellgatenyc.com, @boltsmag.org, @flaminghydra.com, etc) and one print magazine (pick @newrepublic.com, @thenation.com, @nymag.com, @thebaffler.com, etc). Let's keep our pubs alive!

NEW: ICE facilities’ medical staff repeatedly failed to diagnose critical illnesses and misdiagnosed patients, @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I found, during a six month investigation that we have just published. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Latest newsletter, a video convo with the great @austinkocher.com johnwashington.substack.com/p/ice-camps-...

Honored to be back translating Oscar Martinez. An excerpt from his new book Bukele, El Rey Desnudo (Bukele, the Naked Emperor) is out today from @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/buk...

We've got a cover: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2880-h... And a publication date: July 21.

Sounds like what @jwashing.bsky.social reported on with PCSD

A trans woman and organizer with Trans Queer Pueblo was arrested at a regular ICE check-in and held in a men’s only unit. The org says it’s retaliation. My latest for @lookoutnews.bsky.social www.lookoutnews.org/ice-detained...

A grassroots group in Maryland helped expose a $102.4M federal ICE detention facility. Then officials held a closed-door meeting about it and didn't invite them. This is a story about who gets a seat at the table. 🧵

“For a county that extends to the U.S.-Mexico border, this is unconscionable. If you don’t train deputies on the clear limits of their authority, how can you know if they are respecting those limits?” story via @jwashing.bsky.social/@lookoutnews.bsky.social

In one particularly alarming incident, a construction company’s security guard called the Sheriff’s Dep and Border Patrol about 5 men looking for work. When deputies learned BP wouldn’t arrive for an hour, they took the men to Taco Bell, arranging with Border Patrol to pick the men up there.

Despite repeated pledges that the department does not enforce immigration violations, recent filings from lawsuit reveal Pima County Sheriff's deputies have picked up and turned over Spanish-speaking men w/out suspicion of any crime. For @lookoutnews.bsky.social www.lookoutnews.org/scoop-pima-c...

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Camp East Montana has new management, according to the Department of Homeland Security. This comes after months of abuses and three deaths at the massive detention facility. This is confirmed by DHS and Sam.gov My breaking story:

On the momentum — and vulnerability — of the immigration enforcement regime right now. Latest newsletter: johnwashington.substack.com/p/a-pivot-po...

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

Oh, I've def been targeted by this. (And even partially lured! Tho sniffed a scam and never paid anything.) Phishing scammers really know how to pick vulnerable groups: non-tech savvy elders, the broken-hearted, struggling writers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

"No Human Warehousing in Surprise." "At the Feb. 3 Surprise City Council meeting — days after the purchase announcement was reported — more than 1,000 people showed up to stand against the detention center." "Nobody wants that thing here." #Arizona #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

She did not attend the state of the union, tho Sonia traveled to DC with Rep @repyassansari.bsky.social to advocate for the release of her partner, Yari, detained for a year by ICE, despite suffering from Leukemia. www.lookoutnews.org/during-state...