📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

🚨 New publication out! Together with @linavosyliute.bsky.social, we examine the EU’s risk of falling into a far-right trap in the negotiations on the Return Regulation. 📄 Published as an open-access Policy Brief by @birmm.bsky.social l — free to read & share! zenodo.org/records/1696...

Full access to the story here: archive.li/2025.09.08-0...

Frontex doesn't like to hear its 'voluntary' interviews of people arriving at Europe's shores being described as covert 'interrogations'. Why? Because it has no legal mandate to interrogate and criminalise migrants. Yet, that is precisely what's happening in Spain. elpais.com/espana/2025-...

On June 11, ICE and police in Baton Rouge, raided 9 massage parlors, detaining 10 Chinese women, their names and whereabouts unreleased. They disappeared into ICE’s sprawling detention system. Not a single migrant rights organization has called for their release. truthout.org/articles/sex...

Here is how #Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people’s personal data with #Europol Investigation conducted by Solomon, the French newspaper Le Monde, the Spanish newspaper El País, and the German outlet Netzpolitik. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol. Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇 wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Important investigation from @elpais.com on how migrants and activists were treated as criminals by Frontex and Europol. “My whole life was in that police file... They wanted to portray me as promiscuous, a lesbian, using morality to make me look suspicious,” says Helena Maleno, a Spanish activist.

Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...

For @gesanchez.bsky.social - leading expert on smuggling - 'EU agencies often justify harvesting personal data from migrants by claiming it is necessary to combat sophisticated...smuggling networks. This creates the illusion that the data is actually reliable or useful. We know it's neither.'

Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases. www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...

Between 2016-2023, Frontex unlawfully shared the personal data of more than 13,000 'suspects' with Europol, via supposedly 'voluntary' debriefing interviews with newly arrived migrants that lack basic legal safeguards - branded by experts as 'covert interrogations'. elpais.com/internaciona...

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders. With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

The criminalisation of solidarity is an incredible worrying element of the EU's response to migrant smuggling. We went deep on this issues with @gesanchez.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in this seminar hosted by @sieps.bsky.social sieps.se/en/seminars/...

También publicamos en @lemonde.fr , versión en inglés y francés www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Con @balkanizator.bsky.social y @stavinoha.bsky.social publico hoy esta investigación en @elpais.com acerca de las prácticas ilícitas de @frontex.bsky.social en la obtención y el manejo de datos personales de migrantes y activistas. elpais.com/internaciona...

Following a complaint by civil society organisations, we opened an inquiry into @ec.europa.eu decision not to carry out an impact assessment on two legislative proposals to counter migrant smuggling. As a first step, we have asked the EC a set of questions. www.ombudsman.europa.eu/news-documen...

Missed our recent @sieps.bsky.social webinar on migrant smuggling and the EU’s counter-smuggling policies, with @gesanchez.bsky.social, @bramfrouws.bsky.social & @svaroschi.bsky.social? There is now a recording you can watch! 👇 sieps.se/en/seminars/...

📢📢📢Join @svaroschi.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social, @bernd-parusel.bsky.social for a conversation on the #facilitationproposal and its implications, next 17 June at 15.00 CET.

Next deportation stop- Nepal.

✈️👀 I believe this is a likely large jet deportation to Bangladesh. It would follow small jet deportations to there in February and April. Would not be surprised to see another atop on this route.

Looking forward to speaking in this webinar on the EU’s legislation on counter-smuggling of migrants organised by @sieps.bsky.social next 17 June. I will be joined by @gesanchez.bsky.social and @bramfrouws.bsky.social Thanks @bernd-parusel.bsky.social for the invitation! sieps.se/en/seminars/...

Webinar announcement! @gesanchez.bsky.social, @bramfrouws.bsky.social, @svaroschi.bsky.social and I will discuss the EU's response to the smuggling of migrants. Join us online on 17 June, 15:00-16:15 CEST! Info, related @sieps.bsky.social papers & and registration here. 👇 sieps.se/en/seminars/...

🚨 NEW: WOLA President @cjimenezdc.bsky.social co-authored a powerful piece in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on how U.S. mass deportation policies are putting migrant women and girls at grave risk. 🧵 gjia.georgetown.edu/2025/05/06/g...

"Increased rates of GBV, both domestically and internationally, must be anticipated as migrant women and girls are forcibly detained and compelled to “reverse migrate” to dangerous environments." Global Women's Institute & @wola-org.bsky.social gjia.georgetown.edu/2025/05/06/g...

ONLINE PANEL TODAY AT 5pm! Walls, Fences and Deportations: The Radicalization of Border and Migration Policies Mert Cangönül, @charlesmartinshields.com, Sophie Reichelt, @gesanchez.bsky.social z.bsky.social & @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social y.social Register: www.oiip.ac.at/events/walls...

Join us all this Tuesday, May 7 at 17.00 CET! Thanks to @infooiip.bsky.social for the invitation to talk about borders, 100 days into the 2nd Trump presidency.

With thanks to @gesanchez.bsky.social, @juliawinkler.bsky.social, the defence lawyers and the young men such as nineteen year old Justin who gave testimony from behind bars for the story.

Join our ONLINE Panel: Walls, Fences and Deportations: The Radicalization of Border and Migration Policies on 7 May at 5pm CET with Mert Cangönül, @charlesmartinshields.com, Sophie Reichelt, @gesanchez.bsky.social & @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social Register: www.oiip.ac.at/events/walls...

Instead of protection, they were met with handcuffs upon arrival in Greece. Because they (allegedly) steered the boat or took on other tasks, they are being charged with smuggling. Despite the fact that they were part of the group, paid for the trip, fled the war & are still almost children. 2/4

#FreeTheBoys - Around 40 Sudanese youths, barely out of childhood, are locked in Avlona juvenile prison, Greece. Most are under 20, some still just 17. They fled the horrors of war in Sudan, losing fathers, homes, and hope. Now, they face life in prison for surviving. 1/4

We have hired a great lawyer for him and will be there in court to support him! We demand that all charges against Ariad are dropped! We need your help to also be able to support the dozens of other boys! - Every contribution makes a difference. 🖤 6/6 ▶️ www.betterplace.org/en/projects/...

If convicted, Ariad faces harsh penalties—at least 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of at least €30,000 for each transported person. In total, he could be sentenced to several hundred years in prison and fines exceeding €2 million euros. 2/6

Ariad is one of the about 50 Sudanese teenagers currently imprisoned on smuggling charges after arriving in Crete this and last year. There were about 70 passengers on the boat he crossed with. Everyone had to help a little — and so did Ariad. Anyone in his position would have done the same. 1/6

@juliawinkler.bsky.social, a political scientist who co-authored a 2023 report on migrant criminalisation in Greece, says: “What’s happening in Crete is a brutal example of how Europe’s so-called ‘war on smuggling’ is, in reality, criminalising the very act of migration.” 9/10

The practice across EU countries of prosecuting young migrants as smugglers goes against the protocol’s principles.” 7/10

@gesanchez.bsky.social, research fellow at Georgetown University, says the criminalisation of refugees from the civil war in Sudan contravenes the UN protocol on migrant smuggling, which “clearly establishes that a migrant cannot be prosecuted for facilitating his or her own smuggling. 6/10

Fifty Sudanese teenagers fled war — now they're facing life sentences for 'smuggling' simply because they steered the boat they escaped on. Following our coverage, @theguardian.com has picked up the story, shedding light on this great injustice! 1/10 #FreeTheBoys www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

With @giorgoschristides.bsky.social, we wrote about the dozens of young men under 21 who fled Sudan & are now facing (what their lawyers say are) draconian charges under Greek anti-smuggling legislation. Many have already been handed lengthy sentences in Greece... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

En Sonora este jueves...

I know there is a lot more going on here, but FWIW: -137 Venezuelans were deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act. -When asked how many more people might be subject to that proclamation, the government wrote in a sworn declaration that it had identified 258 others. That’s <400 people.

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VENEZUELANS ARE SCAPEGOATS Published April 8, 2025 via @dallasnews.com LTE by Max Lefeld of Dallas, TX

Have you had a chance to read it? If not, here's your reminder to think about racism and visas:

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

The magnitude of the promised mass deportations is yet to be seen; but for us on the border, the real change comes as stepped-up surveillance and controls and the creation of a conflict zone --without a conflict. @Celizario for @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...