ICE's controversial 287(g) program gives local cops the power to do immigration enforcement. The program has a long history of sowing distrust and exacerbating radicalized policing. So why did a K-12 school district sign up for it? 🧵

Well that’s a horrifying extra layer to this.

As the Trump administration sows chaos with a crushing fuel blockade of Cuba, a general told Congress that the military will “set up a camp” at Guantánamo Bay to detain those who try to flee the humanitarian crisis inflicted by the United States.

FYI, Blas Nuñez-Neto, who wrote this, was one of the lead border policy people for the Biden admin, which makes his passive voice descriptions of what the "advocacy community ... convinced many policy makers" to do particularly galling. He was directly making many of these decisions.

The tech pictured in this image is known to kill people by diverting them from populated areas thehill.com/opinion/immi... doi.org/10.1016/j.po... Even Border Patrol itself admits so www.rand.org/pubs/researc... repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/ha...

A federal prison internal report from 2024 says that "excessive heat" is causing some prisons' aging cooling systems to fail climate change x mass incarceration = ....

📆 Brussels friends! Join us on Wednesday to hear @mfbosworth.bsky.social speak about the nature and scale of violence in the ‘immigration detainee escorting system’, drawing on research for her book Supply Chain Justice 📦⤵️ repi.phisoc.ulb.be/en/violence-...

Does ICE Have a 287(g) Agreement with an Elementary School? We Need Answers. ICE just added the first K-12 school district to its 287(g) enforcement program—then removed it days later. What happened? Oklahomans, we need your help investigating. austinkocher.substack.com/p/does-ice-h...

In Phoenix, Arizona, temperatures could reach an unbelievable 107°F (+42°C) on Friday. If that verifies, it would break the record for the earliest occurrence of 107°F since records began in 1895, pulverising the previous record by a whopping 44 days. This is totally bonkers.

Book added to reading list #AAG2026

Villahermosa is a main removal city for third-country nationals. Thousands of Central/South Americans who can't be deported to their countries of origin, so Mexico takes them. Buses them to the border, if they want. Many don't. They end up homeless. www.refugeesinternational.org/perspectives...

Happening now at #AAG2026

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Percentage of migrants out of the total population in Gulf Cooperation Countries, as per UN data (2024).

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

ICE Detention Kills Afghanistan War Veteran Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 12th Custodial Death This Year Immigrants in ICE detention now dying at the steady rate of one every six days since January 1, projected to reach over 60 deaths by end of year. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

Three waves of HPAI though Italy 2016-2023. First 2 waves poultry-to-poultry transmission in high desnity farming areas. Wave 3 (2022-23) mid- to long-distance dispersal associated w waterbodies + gulls = role of wild birds in HPAI spatial dynamics 👉 academic.oup.com/ve/advance-a...

This event is open to everyone interested in digital projects. This is an incredibly generous group of scholars who is very committed to building community.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

See you next week at #AAG2026 I’ll be a panelist for “Migrant deaths at the US–Mexico border & data knowability” aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/aag2026/soli... and chair and presenter at “Urban Heat Islands: Identifying, Monitoring, and Adapting” aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/aag2026/soli...

Palestinians who cross back into Gaza through the Rafah border crossing find themselves in the hands of an Israeli backed/armed militia group. Part of a report by France 24

See you next week at #AAG2026 I’ll be a panelist for “Migrant deaths at the US–Mexico border & data knowability” aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/aag2026/soli... and chair and presenter at “Urban Heat Islands: Identifying, Monitoring, and Adapting” aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/aag2026/soli...

"Tuberculosis should therefore be considered as a climate-sensitive disease and action should be urgently taken to mitigate the potential effects of climate change on tuberculosis described here, and to develop climate-resilient tuberculosis programmes" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“An updated map on the CBP website now shows the orange line of "detection technology" cutting through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park on the Texas southern border with Mexico.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"The footage appears to contradict US President Donald Trump’s claim that it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28." - @bellingcat.com

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...

Read this: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1289-c...

It’s also horrendous considering Iran’s already terrible water shortages

This stinks at every level. What refugees desperately need after their claims are accepted is the stability to rebuild their lives. This change will cause immeasurable stress and anxiety to some of the most vulnerable people in the country

“Several labor rights groups decried the vote, saying if Arizona does not establish a formal standard that would allow the state to enforce its heat rules, many workers will continue to face unsafe conditions in Arizona’s extreme temperatures.”

Uncovering a surveillance camera network along California's border www.ktvu.com/news/uncover...

“More than $40 million in Florida immigration grants will pay local law enforcement agencies for capturing and holding detainees — costs that will cover a biometric eyeball scanner, surveillance towers, and a printer.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“Tohono O'odham leaders said Trump administration officials are moving to build a wall along the tribe's 62-mile border with Mexico — weeks after the DHS laid out their plan to build a ‘smart wall’ on 1,419 miles of the 1,954-mile border.” www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

🏜️I scheduled a call with a policy specialist to help me make sense of it, who in turn connected me to @myles-traphagen.bsky.social, who was documenting damage along the borderlands. He canceled our first call to film blasting at Coronado National Memorial in Arizona, which became the story's opener.

“The plan, which involves installing cameras on a hill to overlook the Orange County city and its famous coastline, is moving ahead despite a torrent of pushback from locals” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“Records and an investigation by the Mirror and Border Chronicle show multiple cameras that are over 100 miles from the border. One is just outside of Apache Junction, another is outside Buckeye and a third is near the town of Maricopa.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“CBP and the Drug Enforcement Administration have built a network of surveillance equipment surrounding the Tohono O’odham Nation. At entry and exit points, cars and people are scanned by high-tech cameras, many of them clandestine.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a rule requiring its universities to ensure students can graduate without studying “unnecessary controversial subjects,” despite warnings it could leave them less prepared for the real world.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

If we wanted to do something more than dunk on her for this (which we should) now would be a great moment to talk about how the State Department and CIA basically architected our vision of climate migration our of pure political fear rather than any empirical evidence it was going to happen

Officials Dispute Trump Explanation of El Paso Airspace Closure. “There Was Not a Threat.” Shutdown Said to be Connected to Anti-Drone Laser that Shot Down Party Balloon theintercept.com/2026/02/11/e...

New reporting shows local police are tapping school security cameras and license-plate reader systems to assist federal immigration enforcement, raising serious concerns about student privacy and surveillance. Read more here:

1. Tests don’t last 10 days. 2. They aren’t conducted near major metros. 3. There is advance warning. IMO something was supposed to happen last night/this morning that either failed or was called off.

“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”

Border Patrol already has checkpoints surrounding El Paso osm4wiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/wiki... Note: These are the ‘permanent’ checkpoints. They have the resources to set up additional ones on secondary roads.

🧵Oppression and resistance: the DHS Diaries DHS operations have not “de-escalated”, as Border Czar Tom Homan promised when he took over Border Patrol and ICE operations in Minneapolis just over a week ago. We bring you up to speed in our weekly: (link in comments)

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

Border enforcement is murder

CBP locates the surveillance infrastructure near populated areas in order to increase the physical strain on the human body and divert travel away from safety www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., drastically increasing the death toll of undocumented immigrants thehill.com/opinion/immi...

“Political will” is invoked like magic fairy dust or an abstract variable. It isn’t. If scientists want their evidence to matter, they need to ask how political will is built through organising, mobilisation, & social movements that generate sustained pressure across society & force political action