Here’s what happened when the federal government ripped a 12-year old girl from her only living parent. An important story from @angieleventis.bsky.social and Laura Turbay @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c...

This month we hosted Dr. Jeronimo Cortina (U of Houston) at the UTRGV POLS Colloquium for a talk about his new book, Proximity Politics: How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors. He visited our Center for Survey Research & Policy Analysis and met undergraduate & grad students.

Six percent of *all children* in America are US citizens who have at least one undocumented parent. (Not a typo, source in thread)

Feliz 100 años a Celia Cruz AZÚCAR! My favorite clip of sound check in Kinshasa DRoCongo in 1974 - Opera voice! youtu.be/HOfST5xO9Ms

“We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Congratulations to all the winners!

Echoes of 1924 policy… “Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Berkeley Center for American Democracy is hiring a predoc next year to work with @gabelenz.bsky.social @hrendleman.bsky.social Cecilia Mo & me. Deadline Jan 30. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05187

This Could Be the Last Stand for the Voting Rights Act www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

We held a great event today with the UTRGV Political Science Association student group. Our Hispanic Heritage Month event was “Latino Voters in the 2024 Presidential Election & Beyond.” Special shout out to my co-panelists Richard Longoria, Sarah Perez, and Rodolfo Solis!

Thank you @laloalcaraz1 Lalo Alcaraz for your political cartoons! You provide us with a critical lens on the USA from the Latino perspective. Can’t wait for the Pachuco comic book series! #vivalaraza

This happened at the Harlingen, Texas airport over the weekend. The RGV is ground zero for new tactics to remove immigrants and asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, through extra-judicial means.

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my latest article in Politics, Groups, and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social titled, “‘Trump es la cabeza de todo esto’: Rhetoric, Racism, and the Political Socialization of Latinx Immigrants” doi.org/10.1080/2156...

The administration tried to do this to children in the middle of the night of Labor Day weekend when hopefully few would notice. Thankfully, the plan was paused.

Immigrant children taken in the middle of the night from shelters and wait in legal limbo on a hot tarmac for hours in the Texas sun. apnews.com/article/immi...

I’m a Longhorn through and through, but here’s a photo of my traitor dog Nestlé from 2018. He’s still alive and kicking’ pushing 17

It happened - I was carded on my birthday! #miracleshappen

After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.

Big if true

Everything’s awful so here’s my current fave snack OMG guau!

I shared my thoughts with the @texastribune.org about how the level of gerrymandering in this mid-decade redistricting hurts and distorts some basic principles of representation: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/21/t...

Make no mistake about it, this is, at its root, motivated by an anti-Latino/Spanish sentiment. Adversely affecting other groups too, of course. Education Department quietly removes rules for teaching English learners - The Washington Post apple.news/ANIWIA0iMQyO...

18 months and multiple rounds of revision, paper “ACCEPTED” on Friday at 5 pm!

UTRGV 🤝UCLA connection! Great meeting with Rodolfo Solis - a talented grad student doing some great work in Latino Politics

R&R resubmitted! Now to begin interviews for a new project!

I was quoted in my local paper sharing my thoughts on the current TX redistricting controversy and its significance for the RGV myrgv.com/publications...

ICE enforcement action at school pick-up line. Shameful new low www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

“Cultural and musical events from coast to coast – block parties and summer concerts in California; Mexican heritage celebrations in Chicago; soccer fan watch parties in Massachusetts – have been postponed or canceled altogether.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

…and then they came for DACA recipients. Expected but no less awful and cruel decision.

Where we are as a nation.

Great thread on the value of humanities for universities.

Former GOP chair of Texas Redistricting Cmte coming out opposed to Trump power grab… “I’m a Former Republican Texas Lawmaker. Don’t Let Trump Mess With Our Congressional Maps.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...

“Trump and Vance envision a world of tiered citizenship, each in his own way, where entry depends on heritage and status rests on obedience. The best traditions of our country make this difficult.“ JD Vance Claims One of Our Worst Traditions as His Own www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

QEPD Jaime Alanís Garcia

Heroes www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

“It’s the kind of election theft that you use when you realize that you can’t win playing with the hand that you’ve been dealt. So, you decide that you’ll just rearrange the cards so that they favor you.” Rep. Al Green www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Return to racially offensive mascots! Or else…” What is happening 🤦🏻‍♂️

Absolutely horrendous conditions at ICE facilities! “The rapid, chaotic, and cruel approach to arresting and locking people up is literally deadly and causing a human rights crisis that will plague this state and the entire country for years to come.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We feed you. They hunt us.

“On July 8, Timothy Ray Thompson, a 68-year-old Shasta County resident, allegedly drove to a property in Igo, home to a Hispanic family, shouted racial slurs, and fired multiple shotgun rounds as the family fled into their home.“ krcrtv.com/news/local/c...

I submitted two peer reviews in one day! And they were only a week late!

A worker died!!! Absolutely EVERY single detail about the Glass House Farms raid is chilling and totally unacceptable. Read the gruesome details of abuse by federal agents in this important report. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained. “They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”

If Brad Lander is charged, it would suggest that any attempt to protest or even document ICE actions could be construed as an arrestable offense. It’s clearly already one worthy of detainment.

Make no mistake about it, Abbott’s preemptive deployment of National Guard to SAN ANTONIO ahead of this weekend is a race-targeted attempt to chill free speech.

CHAMP!🎾💅 LOCKED. IN. ALL. MATCH.

Crushing dissent “Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

Allez COCO!!!