just discovered this dashboard of climate mobility legal cases internationally, which is a super cool resource www.global-council.org/climate-data...

Ghana becomes latest African nation to accept US deportees www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

the Trump administration reportedly wants to sharply limit the international right to asylum at the UN www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The costly failure of the CBP Home self-deportation app According to an NBC News analysis, in the five weeks following its implementation, only 356 people used it to voluntarily leave the country, and no further data has been published since then english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

Fabrizio Romano-ing NATO action

"Some neighborhoods will retreat and others will be protected, and still others – often lower-income communities – may be left behind." This is, in essence, the story of climate migration worldwide at every scale: Some people get new seawalls, other people move, and the worst off get stuck in place

40% of shadow docket cases under Trump have been about immigration A significant factor for everything that has happened the last 9 months

amazing story trying to imagine what would happen if a bunch of north korean soldiers showed up on a rocky beach in california and killed three people in the middle of the night www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

As this blog notes, this move is almost surely at least in part an economic one, aimed at bringing in diaspora money/investment

Even before the start of President Trump's surge, D.C. had the most police per-capita of any U.S. city. By a quite a bit. And that's just counting the city's force, not the huge array of other police agencies here. The Capitol Police, also in D.C., is bigger than Baltimore's police department.

the notion of "remigration," now rising on the US right, has a longer history in Europe, where it has a specific meaning linked to removing immigrants of a non-European ethnicity In his famous 1968 Rivers of Blood speech, Powell explicitly pointed to the US as a warning for UK immigration

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, expects the 1 millionth Syrian will return to their origin country in the next few weeks, less than a year after Assad's ouster apnews.com/article/syri...

BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Researchers working in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp documented a development that everyone should have expected: when US aid gets cut, people go hungry www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

Poor people are often among the worst off when disaster strikes for precisely this reason: they're trapped in place Oftentimes, being able to get out is a luxury

Pakistan evacuates a million people as farming belt hit by worst floods in decades reut.rs/3UPTBJD

for the first time in 3 years, men ages 18-22 will soon legally be able to leave Ukraine

This is an incredibly useful and evergreen resource we published this week, offering key stats to get a sense of the size & shape of global migration

A DC grand jury wouldn't indict the sandwich thrower guy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

we as a globe had basically beaten famine. but over the last decade or so, the number of people starving to death has been rising, amid conflict in Yemen, Ethiopia, Gaza & Afghanistan www.ft.com/content/a8f6...

happy pub day to my @migrationpolicy.bsky.social colleagues! Their book On The Move is THE defining look at migration across the Americas--only a small portion of which is about people going to the US also: it's currently 1/2 off thru @stanfordpress.bsky.social ! www.sup.org/books/politi...

As climate change makes disasters more severe and frequent, many people are being exposed to unfamiliar threats, or familiar threats of unfamiliar intensity. I made a quiz to help you see if you're prepared. It's not comprehensive—so much goes into disaster preparedness—but it's a starting point.

"in a rapidly warming world, the comforts of some are subsidized by the hardships of others" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

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since May, almost all of the increase in US immigration arrests has been of people without prior criminal convictions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

naming the brand and flavor of the potato chip bag is what sends this story over the top. a perfect piece of new york city politics journalism

government efficiency!

Uganda denies reports it has agreed to take third-country deportees from the US (reportedly to include only other Africans without criminal histories) "we cannot take in such illegal immigrants" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Thirty-one percent of District residents say crime is an “extremely” or “very” serious problem in the city, down from 50 percent in May and 65 percent in spring 2024." Trump's ability to negatively polarize virtually every issue he touches is really something

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

never heard of a case like this before Globally, migrants (& others) send hundreds of billions of $$ of their own money to people in their origin countries. Targeting based on those transactions, plus the new US tax on remittances, seems like it could lead to a change in behavior for sending money

The Trump administration has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas for breaking the law, overstaying and “support for terrorism,” the State Department said.

New report from @hrw.org details how a Senegalese community displaced by floods a decade ago was promised new homes or other help from the government. It never came. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

The Marshall Islands, previously considered the last country in the world not to have a national soccer team, finally have a team of their own The first match was played 6,000 miles outside the country, in Arkansas, where thousands of Marshallese live www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I missed that Ted Cruz last week called for the US to recognize Somaliland as an independent country Seems like the kind of diplomatic move I could imagine Trump taking www.semafor.com/article/08/1...

"More than 40 percent of the roughly 300 arrests [in DC last week] reported by the White House targeted undocumented immigrants." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Trump admin is reportedly considering resettling up to 40,000 refugees next year -- 3/4 of whom would be Afrikaners from S Africa: www.reuters.com/world/africa... For reference, 100,000 refugees arrived in FY 2024, the largest share (1/5) from DRC: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/freq...

Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks.

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

Remember Eleanor Holmes Norton? Wonder what she's up to these days

less than 3% of DOGE's "savings" can be verified, politico reports www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Bayern Munich is backing away from its Visit Rwanda sponsorship, amid criticism over alleged support for M23 rebels and other abuses www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/...

A new CBO analysis shows Trump’s tax law cuts income for the poorest 10% by $1,200 per year.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Trump called for doing this 5 years ago, too. My colleagues estimated it could lead to the exclusion of as many as 20 MILLION US CITIZENS from the census www.migrationpolicy.org/news/million...

“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” www.economist.com/interactive/...