This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Displaced Ethiopians making the journey through Somalia face exploitation, forced labor, and militant groups along the way. inkstickmedia.com/along-somali...

Zohran Mamdani did Perfectly Imperfect today and recommended a vintage Arsenal third kit, which is incredible layers of on-brand

this is essentially precisely the reason that many local police depts have avoided cooperating with immigration agents in the first place: because it can lead to a decrease in communities' trust in local cops www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

good Planet Money episode this week on "the remittance mystery" of why money transfers are way up to Central America amid greater deportations, but down to Mexico www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

📢The European Court of Human Rights has said Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil & gas before opening new oil fields. This week, the ECtHR gave a ruling that will change how governments approach fossil fuel development 🧵 www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Everyone knows that US deportations have ramped up from within the country under Trump What @ruizags.bsky.social makes clear in this new analysis is that this is the FIRST TIME IN A DECADE that more people have been deported from within the US than from at the border

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

For @migrationpolicy.bsky.social podcast on climate migration, I spoke w @marknevitt.bsky.social about the possibility climate change wipes entire countries off the map What happens to those countries' inhabitants? mpichangingclimatechangingmigration.podbean.com/e/climate-st...

Overall social media use is declining. Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all. A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa. Black River — near total destruction.

Wild how much can change in 10 years. In 2015, Mother Jones hailed Utah's success in using Housing First policies to reduce homelessness (www.motherjones.com/politics/201...). Now state is building a giant 'treatment center' to detain homeless + mentally ill people: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Great collection of articles about how wildfires could fundamentally remake vast swaths of US life Including looks at the insurance challenges compelling relocation, the tricky ways to order evacuations & the reality that many people are stuck in place

so depressing to click on a link in article and see "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" at the end of the url

Of the nearly 14 million immigrants in the US without a legal status, *4/5* have been here for 5+ years, according to new analysis from my colleagues More than 6 million kids--most of them US citizens--have at least 1 unauthorized immigrant parent www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unautho...

"To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. 'It’s pathetic,' one career ICE official [said], adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous."

New @nberpubs: "The Ripple Effects of China’s College Expansion on American Universities" www.nber.org/papers/w34391 "Chinese master’s students generated positive spillovers, driving the birth of new master’s programs, and increasing the number of other international and American master’s students"

great journalism here

The Pact on Migration and Asylum was set to formally begin its life yesterday with the Commission’s first proposal on “solidarity” distribution. However, disagreements among countries forced a delay, with no timeline for an agreement. www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Gitmo is an immigration detention facility once again, after a 2 week pause www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement = higher food prices In an unusual acknowledgement, the Labor Department said that tougher immigration enforcement is hurting farmers and the food supply. wapo.st/48Iuil5

Do the Courts Matter? The Trump Administration Tests the Limits of Immigration Law @ilyasomin.bsky.social is starting our last #immconf panel of the day talking about the Trump admin's invocation of an "invasion" Previously, lower courts mostly rejected Texas' arguments that migration...

At #immconf Fareed Zakaria cites climate change as one of the main drivers for the rise in migration globally SHELTER FROM THE STORM: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS CREATING A NEW ERA OF MIGRATION is available for preorder now thenewpress.org/books/shelte...

Albuquerque brought in the Nat'l Guard a while ago, but required them to be in plainclothes, get training, etc, says the city's police chief at #immconf, all of which led to local buy-in More on ABQ'S experience : www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I'm at #immconf today, and curious to hear whether the new conventional wisdom is that the current immigration reality -- intense enforcement coming from all sides, virtually zero irregular arrivals, and seemingly much reduced immigration overall -- is a temporary aberration or a new normal

Increasingly large portions of the US government have effectively been turned into immigration (restriction/enforcement) offices, including now apparently 1/4 of the FBI www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

For the first time in about 70 years, net immigration to America could be zero. Beneath the noise of tariff and budget fights, migration may well be the biggest economic story of 2025. My latest for @economist.com: Welcome to Zero Migration America Link: www.economist.com/finance-and... 🧵 below

The US government assigned a special immigration enforcement team to target college students involved in protests against the war in Gaza. It assembled more than 100 reports on protesters www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"the effort in Washington shows how migrants stopped by local law enforcement for low-level infractions can swiftly be detained by ICE — a boost for an agency struggling to meet the White House’s demands for higher arrest numbers."

"While many of those detained have immediately declared their U.S. citizenship to officers, they have routinely been ignored.." In some cases citizens were handcuffed and held in detention overnight

I am so incredibly thrilled to say that my book is coming out in January! Shelter from the Storm is a deep, sprawling overview of the ways that climate change is creating a new era of human migration

"Before, we didn’t see children enrolling in school... There is more permanence now.” Deterred from the US, more asylum seekers and other migrants are starting to build new lives in Mexico www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

“Spoiler alert: we found that public institutions in large, Republican-leaning states are disproportionately affected by the policy.”

one reason these courthouse arrests/confrontations are so common now is bc authorities do administrative two-steps to toss out ongoing deportation cases (which take a long time) & deport people thru fast-track expedited removals (which can take a couple hours) www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

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