Halftime performance showed how most Latinos love America, even if some parts of America do not love them back. It showed the reality that Latinos and Spanish are part of America's culture, its history, present & future. As references to salsa show, this is not a new phenomenon but a good reminder.

Listen to "ICE brazo armado del ejecutivo" by The Immigration Lab via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/ice-...

Many people believe immigrants are to blame for the poor job market, but how true is that? This is Immigration Nuance in 60 seconds, and today we’ll look at just that

"Many worry about the deportation of their parents or other family members, some of whom they had been reconnected with for the first time in many, many years. The last thing that we should be doing as a country is targeting and tearing apart families." www.commondreams.org/views/2020/0...

"A reason we committed to regularization is purely pragmatic. The West needs people. Few countries have a rising population growth rate. Unless they embrace migration, they'll experience a sharp demographic decline that will prevent them from keeping their economies & public services afloat"

-Current immigration laws create family separations. -A closed border, along with no asylum, and less legal immigration is not something to celebrate. You can read more here: theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immig...

Multiple factual misunderstandings persist in the way that immigration is often framed and discussed in media coverage and political commentary. Here some recurring new and old myths.

if you are not following @drernestocast.bsky.social pls. do. esp friends looking for strong and informed voices in the conversation 🌱

Maduro was taken by force by U.S. forces a month ago (January 3, 2026). On Monday, February 9, I will discuss the causes and consequences at a @profsandpints.bsky.social event in downtown DC. Join a great, curious, and engaged crowd always open to learn. www.pennsocialdc.com/event-detail...

The people and the media achieved the release of LIAM CONEJO RAMOS and his dad! Unfortunately there are still many minors, families, and people who were in the U.S. with permission in indefinite DETENTION in terrible conditions. From Jan to Oct 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, 🧵1/2

On Thursday, January 29, I explained the case of #LiamConejoRamos & predicted he would soon be released. He was today! See here how & why many people like him are detained with no conviction, for an unknown time, with few rights & oversight. #NoticiasCaracolAhora #ICE youtube.com/shorts/J4eEX...

NEW BOOK: "Immigration and Urban Vitality: How Newcomers Make Cities Strong" available now in paperback, hardcover, and ebook: https://tinyurl.com/cityvitality

ICE  almost like invading armies in cities like Chicago armed almost like the militarily, threaten not only the undocumented immigrants with a criminal record but all residents. They disrupt the day-to-day of these communities, affect businesses; not necessary & counterproductive.

Dr. Ernesto Castañeda, Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies & The Immigration Lab at American University will be speaking at the Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration and Race.  Friday, January 30th, at 12:00 pm (ET).

Global Migration Graduate Certificate event All are welcome: students, faculty, staff, external community members!

Stuck at home because of the snow? Looking for something to watch? Join us today at this webinar:  Sine Institute 250+ at American Fellows: Welcome Panel 1pm EST https://american.zoom.us/j/97685947893?pwd=wUlyYpmxpEphbljbXfVpgzrj17s1Mj.1

"A year of Trump: ICE, execution arm of the antimigration crusade" “Because they have quotas to arrest a certain # of people, under threat of dismissal, they are catching who they can. We see women, minors or citizens who are not deportable & end up being released," Ernesto Castañeda told France 24.

Immigrants is not, and never was, Trump's strongest issue. Subscribe to my new free Substack newsletter. substack.com/profile/1560...

As Minneapolis mourns 37-year-old VA intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, fatally shot by a US Border Patrol agent, Eve Irvine is joined by Dr. Ernesto Castañeda at American University. Democratic senators are now vowing to oppose a funding bill for DHS. www.france24.com/en/it-s-not-...

Growing opposition around the No Kings marches against authoritarianism and breaking the law around deportations and other issues, and now even more strongly with the support of people in Minnesota against the murder of Good and in favor of immigrant communities: a lot of solidarity. Somos Radio Arg

Many people in Minneapolis and elsewhere are angry at the level of violence that ICE has done not in the middle of a raid not looking for a particular immigrant with a criminal background with a warrant and on the way to their house 1/4

The 4th Amendment enforces the notion that “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches & seizures of property by the government. Protects against arbitrary arrests. The basis regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps & other forms of surveillance.

Spoke to Negocios TV about global affairs & about ICE in the streets of the U.S. as an extension of the increased unbridled executive power, showing no self-constrain. Protestors in Minneapolis are the antidote to save decency and democracy.  / Hable con Negocios TV España sobre las acciones de ICE.

The border was not widely open under Biden. This was never about illegality and crime prevention. MAGA did not win the debate on closing the border or deportations. This goes beyond due process. https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immigration-myths-die-hard

The border was not widely open under Biden. This was never about illegality and crime prevention. MAGA did not win the debate on closing the border or deportations. This goes beyond due process. https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immigration-myths-die-hard

"A year of Trump: ICE, execution arm of the antimigration crusade" “Because they have quotas to arrest a certain # of people, under threat of dismissal, they are catching who they can. We see women, minors or citizens who are not deportable & end up being released," Ernesto Castañeda told France 24.

"I was nine years old when my mother was deported." Current immigration and deportation policy creates dangerous situations for children and their families.  Read more:

Three men who migrated to the US from Latin America share their journeys and a longing to return to their home countries. Read more:

Military mobilization by the US into Venezula is highly contested, with rising tensions attributed to strained political relationships, oil interests, drug trafficking, and immigration.  Read more:

Those killed by gunfire during the raids - Silverio Villegas González, 38, from Mexico - Jaime Alanis, 57, from Mexico - Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, 52, from Guatemala - Josué Castro Rivera, 24, from Honduras - Renee Nicole Good, 37, from the United States - 32 deaths in detention centers in 2025

I wrote this short piece for children and young people in Minneapolis. Unfortunately, this continues to be relevant. Please read to your kids and share with your teenagers. I have updated it and fixed some typos. Rest in power Renee Good. theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/under...

Las redadas, las deportaciones y el trato inhumano hacia los migrantes han protagonizado el regreso de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca, convirtiendo el 2025 en uno de los años con las políticas migratorias más duras en la historia estadounidense. #Inmigración #TVMigrante youtu.be/mik9pKjKFpE?...

Government propaganda calls anew to the image of a "Manifest Destiny" to expand westward & abroad as a patriarchal, white, Christian nationalist project. Reinvented as a way to stop "replacement" and justify authoritarianism. ICE is part of a racial project. 4+ see @milleridriss.bsky.social on PBS.

Understanding Deportation for Children, Teens, and Their Parents By Ernesto Castañeda If you are a young student in the United States and you are worried that you, a classmate, or a loved one could be deported by ICE agents, as you have seen on social media, TV, or in your neighborhood, this short…

“Immigration and Urban Vitality: How Newcomers Make Cities Strong.” Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race. The George Washington. January 30.

1) ICE adds have been expensive & ineffective, more successful in seeding fear that in selling the idea. 2) It would be more effective & helpful to give immigrants ready to leave 20k per capita rather than hunt them as criminals. 3) The self-deportations official figures are dubious & non-credible.

The events in Venezuela were fueled by Marco Rubio and his close advisors obsessed with Cuba. Do not use the term "narcoterrorism" to talk about this. More here: aulablog.net/2025/12/23/w...

"Lawyer & eugenicist Madison Grant wrote in his 1916 book, “The Passing of the Great Race,” that foreign countries were taking advantage of America’s openness by unloading “the sweepings of their jails & asylums” & that American life, social, moral & political has been lowered & vulgarized by them.”

YEAR IN REVIEW. The Immigration Lab! Thanks for all your work, help, and support!!!

Here's an excellent resource for helping kids understand ICE and deportation. Many thanks to @drernestocast.bsky.social for putting it together! Pass it on to any parents and kids struggling to process...all this theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/under...

Q&A translation of cover piece in El Pais Jan 1, 2025. theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/immig...

"Alondra is just one of many Americans who saw their immigrant parents deported this year during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. She and others have been left to stitch their families together again and carry on the legacy of what their parents built, often at a moment’s notice."

A short text explaining what is going on with ICE as a resource for kids (like … teens?) to read or for parents to read and had to talk to kids.

"Alondra is just one of many Americans who saw their immigrant parents deported this year during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. She and others have been left to stitch their families together again and carry on the legacy of what their parents built, often at a moment’s notice."

The Trump admin. stopped the diversity visa lottery with the excuse of the unfortunate Brown shootings. Knowing people's identities isn't enough to stop crime; limits to opportunities, mental healthcare & guns are more relevant factors. Spoke to about this with Colombian international news, NTN24.