Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social has published a new research article titled, "Refugee Return without Refoulement: Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms" in International Migration Review. 🔗 Read the full article to find out more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s finally out: doi.org/10.1177/0197...

"From what I can tell, ICE is a secret police when acting in a public space...The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening." adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19

With unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim? @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social‬ and @abbeyst.bsky.social‬ for @lseusablog.bsky.social‬

re-upping this piece with @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown is a convenient cover for Trump to dismantle democracy -- given the developments in LA blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

This was predictable and exactly what people warned the USIP takeover was a stepping stone to. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...

The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I've spent time in the midst of three civil wars and multiple authoritarian regimes, and a weird normalcy is very typical. People still have to work their jobs and feed their families. Markets are still held, and religious services go on. The threats just behind the surface can be easy to forget.

Abject cowardice from some of the most powerful people in the country.

GRIID is hiring! 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @abbeyst.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld. - Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025. - More info & to apply: werkenbij.uva.nl

📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld. - Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025. - More info & to apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

100% this. This is a feature not a bug, this is what the policies are designed to do. @abbeyst.bsky.social and I write about that more here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Watching the cascade of asylum norm death in real time... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The immigration crackdown is central to Trump's strategy to undermine democracy. What it can do that purging opponents or controlling the power of the purse cannot is enable military deployment on US soil & rally militia to enact their agenda unchecked. w/ @abbeyst.bsky.social for #USAPP

@stephrschwartz.bsky.social and I wrote a post for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown can help the administration mobilize US troops on US soil, and rally militia -- which would enable even more harm to groups this administration targets, like Trans Americans.

In case it’s not clear, ICE is getting the names of pro-Palestine students to target from infamous pro-Israel watchdog groups Campus Watch, Canary Mission, etc Those groups — not part of govt in any way — have enormous power right now with a direct pipeline to the deportation machine.

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

"lack of specific information"..."actually highlights the risk they pose" confirms ICE is targeting people because of *who they are*, not for what they have done. in polisci, this is known as collective targeting & it is the basis for eliminationist politics by expulsion, murder, disappearance.

Inter-con, USIP security contractor, had contract terminated by USIP but still had one physical key to building. DOGE went to contractor VP's house and said "you either let us in or we're gonna cancel all your other government business." Inter-con then turned on USIP, and used key to let DOGE in.

USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

At the risk of being a parody of myself I think the roots to the "new" misogyny lie in the theology of slavery and the rationalization of mass rape for centuries by people who thought of themselves as the most devout people in the country www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...

Honestly, what the fuck www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Sources inside NIH say DOGE is at one of their buildings right now. If you have additional info, i’m marisakabas.04 on Signal.

bsky.app/profile/mari... the government *does not own this building.* they are vandalizing private property. this is pure and simple thuggery.

bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force

After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency. Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:

It also more clearly establishes that what’s going on here is human trafficking.

The crazy thing about violent borders is that they lock people in as much as they keep people out.

even if I hadn’t been lucky enough to spend time at USIP this would read like a bad dystopian joke

There’s been some chatter about increased harassment of immigrants at airports. It’s been a little hard to pull together into any sort of policy or pattern but these cases are popping up.

I worked at USIP for eight years and was on the leadership team so if any journalists need background information or connections to others who are still there just let me know.

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

this is very well done: pitched to the broadest possible audience in plain language that outlines both the specific problem, the shared values in peril, and the urgent, major stakes for everyone

If you’re a Proud Boy or an Oath Keeper convicted for seditious treason by a jury of your peers, however, you get an invite to CPAC.

Holy hell. Promoting false narratives to enable the illegal deportation of legal residents whose views you disagree with? Just another day protecting free speech at the ADL...

First they came for the Palestinians, and I said "this is fine and surely this will be the full extent of it," the end.

Goes without saying that the comments attributed to DHS agents here simply aren’t how green cards work under U.S. law, and what happens next to Khalil, and how the government justifies it, is definitely something to watch. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

what the what?

breaking via inbox: “On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent grad student at Columbia, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university. The DHS agents said that the State Dept revoked Khalil’s green card.”

🧵 Here's what @stephrschwartz.bsky.social and I have been fretting about: Crackdowns on immigrants, mass deportation, and internment camps (and the suffering they cause) are recurrent in US history. But this time, it's also one of the Trump admin's power grabs. 1/ www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We at @uupeace.bsky.social we’re honored to have Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social present her new book project on Return without Refoulement - I learned SO MUCH

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It is not a "mistake" from the perspective of those creating this concentration camp. They want to eliminate immigration -- and migrants. That's why it's so dangerous for moderates and the left to treat these policies as "immigration reform" or "law enforcement."

Ever wondered how many articles in conflict studies that use human subjects research discuss the ethics of their project in the final publication? We did. And the answer we found was that only around one third mention anything about ethics...