“They threw my dad out like an animal, and now I have no dad.”

The U.S. did another strike on February 20.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

abandoning immigrants & trans people won't save centre left parties i chatted with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on how uk labour proves appeasement is a dead-end newrepublic.substack.com/p/what-democ...

Robert Reich turns himself in to Kristi Noem in this excellent letter: #ICEOut www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Assistant Professor in International Migration #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 PhD in political science, sociology, law, anthropology, or a related discipline 🏫 @lse-ei.bsky.social ⌛ Tue 24 February buff.ly/GwNqSvn #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

Akhil Amar on birthright citizenship: ”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

Spain is preparing a process that could regularize around 500,000 irregular migrants already living in the country. We summed up what you need to know about the regularization, including who is eligible + what benefits recipients will and won't receive👇 www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6994...

Why does mainstream accommodation of far-right and Eurosceptic parties often electorally backfire? In my 3rd dissertation paper, just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social, I argue that voters specifically punish internally divided parties for accommodation: doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/13 🧵

In TNR’s exclusive new poll, a clear majority—75 percent—would prefer that Democrats “be more aggressive in calling out Republicans,” while just 25 percent chose “focus more on working with Republicans.” trib.al/R6oTUW1

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Update to my story last week about a family of Russian asylum seekers who’d been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center. Five days after we reported on their case, ICE reversed course and let them go.

As part of my reporting on children held in immigrant detention in Dilley, Texas, I’ve gotten to review some medical records from the facility. This is where ICE brought 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos. One detail that has gnawed at me: The medical forms refer to the children as inmates.

We've written to the four airlines carrying out deportations under the cruel and inhumane UK-France agreement. They are: Air France, Titan Airways, AlbaStar Airlines & Corenden Airlines. We call on them to end their complicity, now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir. The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers. Here's how it was announced internally: www.wired.com/story/depart...

Grad school is hard enough without a supremacist government kidnapping you for weeks & then trying to deport you for months. A heroic accomplishment! Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk! 🥳

"Three federal immigration agents accidentally shot themselves in the leg during routine training exercises within two days last year, according to internal documents reviewed by Newsweek."

EXCLUSIVE: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo. Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.

I now have a little webpage on the Knowledge in Crisis project website. Very excited to be part of this project! www.knowledgeincrisis.com/people/danie...

We are hiring - Communications Officer! Use your communication experience to build the migration justice movement’s defiance and strength at a pivotal moment. Visit our webpage for more information about the role. Applications deadline: Monday 23rd March. righttoremain.org.uk/job-vacancy-...

“These girls are experiencing high-risk pregnancies and are some of the most medically vulnerable people in detention,” Zain Lakhani, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told Jezebel. www.jezebel.com/ice-is-shutt...

New article in Nature describes a field experiment on X which shows that assigning users to an algorithmic feed pushes conservative content and demotes mainstream news. Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is a non-ironic answer to a "technology the left should be excited about" question: polarnightenergy.com/sand-battery/

No surprise in this article to anyone seen as racialized in the German context. I’m not, but I remember years ago being sent away from *the immigration office* because it was ”not their job” to communicate with me using words I could understand 🫠

Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...

"For ICE, money is no object." ICE "expects to spend $38.3 billion acquiring warehouses across the country and retrofitting them to collectively hold nearly 100,000 beds." "[C]ronyist dealmaking in service of white nationalism." #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

"A closed border means violence and death." www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

Another #AfD state party chapter has been classified as right-wing extremist (the first in the western states afaik). Following the usual pattern, the party will sue, lose, appeal to the higher courts, lose again, give countless interviews, all while complaining that 🇩🇪 is a dictatorship

🚨Fully revamped paper with @iganson.bsky.social: We study levels of, and partisan differences in, "unconditional political bias" (UPB). This is a partisan's own admission that *nothing* a politician could do would lower their support for that politician.

UPDATE: Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social has confirmed that Juan Nicolás and his mother were deported despite the 2-month-old’s recent hospitalization for bronchitis. “They were abandoned across the border in Mexico.” thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/2...

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision. After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

Sometimes you repost because the horror is so intolerably painful and it is so hard to know what to do and it feels so powerless and reposting feels like nothing that has to be at least the barest trace of something

“Two of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) biggest contractors for building and managing detention centers have posted record revenue in 2025, as companies are expanding their facilities nationwide to hold more immigrants apprehended by the Trump Administration.” time.com/7378284/ice-...

US Citizenship & Immigration Services is an agency most Americans rarely hear about. It administers the *legal* immigration system. Under Trump, the agency has turned into an enforcement tool in service of the broader crackdown. My latest @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Awful!

Immigration and the limits of "control": me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why, and how, Labour has got both the economics *and* politics of migration so wrong. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/724...

What’s the best work you’ve read (either empirical or philosophical) on social cohesion?

NEW PUBLICATION “How the Media Cordon Sanitaire Crumbles: Lessons from Germany” now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2621808 I’m very happy that this paper is out – this project is particularly important to me.

What’s the best article on migration ethics that discusses methodology/has a distinctive methodological approach?

"“Why should we take part remotely when we have been made to feel unwanted by this country,” said Alala, […]. He has also previously served as a jury member for the Berlinale’s Generation section." www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim... #noborder

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