On a recent episode of the Grief’d Up podcast, @fullertonrico.bsky.social explored how immigration policies impede families from caring for loved ones at the end of life. Listen: https://myumi.ch/jJ3dm

Mass de-legalization continues... Refugees must now apply for a greencard within one year of arriving in the U.S. or else risk arrest and detention* *except many refugees are now ineligible to apply for greencards at all and DHS has said they'll only review 7.5k applications (a record low).

Every Ramadan I share the Eid episode of Mira Royal Detective (written by my friend @nabeelarshad.bsky.social) with anyone and everyone I can. youtu.be/oVrTe2glFKg?... Sharing it this year feels even more meaningful because of how beautifully it portrays pluralism.

Hello, Immigration scholars: Do you have references to academic papers/ books that are not about legal status itself but about the *process* of trying to access a more permanent status from a position of legal liminality? I'm writing on this & found very little. Could that actually be the case?

On Tuesday, 17th February 20206, I sat down with Doug MacMillan from The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) for a conversation about his reporting on ICE detention. It was one of the most illuminating conversations I’ve had in a while, and I’m grateful Doug made time for it.

New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...

Cried listening to Tamara Flores recount what it was like for her to make a music video in Acatlán, Veracruz on @theworld.org This is what it's like doing research in Mexico. La hospitalidad mexicana no se compara. theworld.org/segments/202...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Queer and trans ppl at a Louisiana ICE facility alleged they were recruited for unsanctioned work program, forced to do hard manual labor $1 per day. They said queer ppl were targeted by an assistant warden who stalked, harassed and sexually assaulted them.

Grief'd Up Podcast just released an episode about my research on transnational grief. It was an honor to help uncover the grief that most undocumented and mixed-status families have been forced to feel over the past 30 years. If you'd like, you can listen here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

I've been waiting for this moment for over a decade! Just pre-orded @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social's first book, 'Black. Single. Mother.' Here's the link: www.callandresponsechi.com/products/bla...

@nbcutelemundo.bsky.social & @televisaunivision.bsky.social –– the largest Latino TV networks in the country –– are running ads of Kristi Noem telling immigrants to “leave the country or we will find you.”' Thank you, Jazmín Chávez, for sounding the alarm. Sign the petition here www.apagaelodio.com

If you have 90 mins., stream Frybread Face and Me. Like all good art, it is extremely culturally specific and, as a result, almost universal. In this case, it's about Navajo culture and about every kid who got sent to spend the summer with their grandmother and cousins Clip: youtu.be/YaWrSwdmv68

Black people everywhere:

The human misery and massive death toll that came from ending USAID was entirely predictable. Elon Musk relied on conspiracy nuts rather than employees and development specialists. Rubio, who previously defended the agency knew what would happen. They chose this. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

I am still figuring out how to talk about this without sounding like an anti-immigrant pundit, but... Doing transnational research has allowed me to see how remittances lift people out of poverty and give them the stability they need in order to have a good life WITHOUT migrating.

"When the government shutdown ends, Donald Trump will have succeeded in staging the single biggest expansion of presidential power in American history because of the single largest shift in the constitutional balance of powers ever." www.govexec.com/management/2...

I saw a student film about genocide in Gaza with footage of children starving, entire families killed, hospitals bombed, the names of journalists who have been murdered. Words that stick with me: no matter what, we will never be able to tell our children we did not know what was happening

This is so awful. Never forget that the first law in the United States written explicitly to deny people was targeted at Chinese immigrants and impacted people in this neighborhood. This is historical continuity of the worst sort.

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Florida welfare authorities have turned over a 17-year-old foster child to ICE. He has already been separated from his mother, who was deported. He may have been the victim of labor trafficking. Yet, he was taken from his foster home in shackles. A minor. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Senior immigration officials are currently urging officers to “turn the creative knob up to 11.” This will only increase warrantless arrests. ICE has no shame in bypassing legal requirements www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

IMHO, the easiest way to boost event attendance is to send a calendar invite. I see so many beautiful e-vites and Google Forms to RSVP for events, but they don't link to my Google Calendar, and I lose track of them more often than I'd like to admit (even events I'm really excited about!)

My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

In my second piece for The Conversation, I explain that just the *threat* of deportation is enough to upend lives and communities. @us.theconversation.com

File under "demography that breaks your heart" @leafiaye.bsky.social's new article showing that "legal exclusion increasingly suppresses child arrivals’ socioeconomic development throughout the life course, resulting in a great loss of potential."

It probably got buried by Covid because it was released in 2021 but there's a documentary called Fire Boys if you want to learn more about the juvenile incarcerated firefighters

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024) Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...

Confused about Biden’s new executive action for undocumented spouses? Jane Lilly López and I wrote an article for @theconversation.bsky.social that breaks it down. theconversation.com/how-bidens-e...