Jim Crow in Louisiana. They will die fighting like tigers to prevent Black representation in the state. apnews.com/article/calv...

The most blatant and unabashed corruption. If this self dealing stands, there is no law left in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

Two workshops for expert witnesses at LASA Paris. May 30, 08:30 AM Oral Testimony in the U.S. Immigration Court: Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Level 2, Studio 2 5:15 PM - 06:45 PM – From Latin American Studies to Expert Witnessing in Asylum Cases [Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Level 2, Studio 2]

When I was a member of the Park Slope Food Co-op in the early 1990s, there was a vigorous debate about moving the cheese section to the basement. One member complained that the move symbolized a lack of "cheese consciousness." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/n...

Cubans caught between Castro et al and Trump, stuck in limbo in Mexico. Stateless. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

It’s rich that the Pope is against universalism of AI while being the head of a universalist religion. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...

If we are going to be charging political leaders with extraterritorial murders, why not charge Trump for killing Colombian and Ecuadorean citizens in international waters? The US indicting Raul Castro is the definition of the pot calling the kettle black. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

This is a pretty good description of academics who go into administration. They do the dirty work for a fast track to higher salaries. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

And then they deported the Dreaners. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

In 2023-24, foundations raised 3.4 million for Portland Public Schools. Then, the school board abolished such individual school funding models, and this year, they have raised about $215k. The good intentions have not produced more equitable funds, they have spread deficits across all schools.

Ahilan is killing it. What does "determination" mean in TPS statute? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

And then they go after the immigration court interpreters. www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

When the government puts its heavy hand on the scales of justice, there is none. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Making the road by walking. Caminante no hay camino. Se hace el camino al andar. opb.org/article/2026...

In general, I thought Cecilia Wang was much more convincing than the government lawyer, but her response to the question about whether Indians' status according to the 14th A. could be changed if their relationship to the US changed was less persuasive.

I wonder whether historians will call for boycotting the US now that it is guilty of scholastocide. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

The US government has become a human trafficking ring. Paying dictators in Africa to deny asylum protections is the new normal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

The “ entry fiction” was used in the 1980s to deny constitutional protections to Cubans who had spent years in the US, some with US citizen children. For the courts, they were still “arriving” 10 years after entering. Kafka would be proud of US courts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Torturing Colombian dairy farmers in Ecuador, all in the name of a Drug War based on US “intelligence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

If forced to choose, I’d believe the Iranians over Trump. There are no negotiations, no deal. Trump folded as soon as oil spiked. He’s as weak as they come and the Iranians are playing him like a fiddle. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

It might be a good thing that ICE agents are just hanging out in airports doing nothing and not on the streets rounding up our neighbors. Silver lining?

Deploying ICE agents to one of the most public and surveilled places in the country, airports, with millions of camera wielding middle class travelers, is gonna backfire. Karen is not gonna be happy.

The quickest way to end the war with Iran is for the Dow to drop 5%.

Inventing gangs to arrest masses of people. Sounds like the federal government.

The grim reality for third country deportees.

Trump says he will lift sanctions on Iranian oil. Looks like Iran is winning the war. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Their findings are clear: none of the countries currently receiving US deportees under ACAs can guarantee safety or adequate protection. Read the full bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab for a rigorous, country-by-country assessment. 👇👇👇👇👇 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...

The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Golash-Boza calls on cities to demand footage release, agent identification, & written transparency agreements for joint federal operations. We know what federal impunity looks like. This piece makes sure we can't pretend otherwise. 🔗 Read it in full ⤵️ www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/t...

Only Trump can install Raulito Castro in Cuba and call it victory. The Cuban exile community might have a thing or two to say about this plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...

US politicians have fantasized about "taking Cuba" since the early 19th century. As John Quincy Adams wrote in 1823: "it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal Republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself."

Back to the future. Been here, done that. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...

Good news on the Asylum Cooperative Agreement front. ICE is apparently "pausing" pretermissions. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Which way will the dominoes fall? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/m...

Pete Hegseth is responsible for killing 175 schoolkids in Iran because he gutted the group responsible for making sure the military doesn't hit civilian targets. Hegseth may be correct that the US doesn't knowingly target civilians, but in this case, gross negligence is not an excuse for a massacre.

HUGE.

Literally a smoking gun. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...

Two images of confinement. One from 1789 Brooks slave ship diagram and the other from 2026 of ICE megacenter, Social Circle, Georgia. We have learned little in two centuries.

Those sent to these countries are often unaware of what awaits them. As MiSC scholar @elliottyoung.bsky.social put it: "Asylum seekers know the dangers in their home countries, but are not always aware of the limits of the asylum system or gang violence & state corruption in ACA countries."

@elliottyoung.bsky.social of Lewis & Clark College and @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social of Emerson College examined conditions in each of these countries through fieldwork, interviews, & rigorous research to give immigration courts the country conditions information they need to make informed decisions.

Bovino out at CBP. Noem out at DHS. Unfortunately, they have a deep bench of people willing to break the law.

32 immigrants died in ICE custody in 25, and already in 2026, 9 have died. Immigrant detention becomes a death machine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Adiós. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Trump did the impossible. Now, a majority of Americans want to abolish ICE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I didn't realize Hegseth was into the Therian thing too. Operation Epic Furry is gonna be great.

U.S. military is attacking gangs and cartels in Ecuador and at the same time DHS is sending hundreds of third country nationsls to Ecuador, a country that has the highest murder rate in Latin America. It’s either a “safe country” or it’s not. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Some enterprising journalist should attend asylum hearings where DHS is pretermitting the cases to document the destruction of the asylum system. In 30 years, historians will want to know how this happened.

Melania at UN: we must bomb the children to save them.