I am starting an Immigration and Education starter pack. DM me or comment below if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/4pkTW9j

A haunted house but it’s just congress getting along and giving people their SNAP benefits so it’s totally surprising and borderline unbelievable but not scary.

What (re(re(re)))radicalized me? ICE ziptying CHILDREN.

As a researcher, I pay attention to new words and phrases US media (English and Spanish) now has to use to describe US politics: "ICE round-up," "immigration sweeps," and "narcolancha" are now regularly in circulation. Telling.

These children--like all children caught in the middle of immigration enforcement--will carry these mental scars with them forever.

In this op-ed, @wdlopez.bsky.social of @umich.edu says that recent mass deportations will lead to severe social and economic repercussions. He writes about the resistance efforts led by those who have supported families impacted by ICE raids. Read more in TIME: time.com/7319484/immi...

"From large cities like Los Angeles to small, rural towns like O’Neill, Neb., communities have come together...to resist the cruelty and chaos of mass deportation," writes William D. Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social), author of "Raiding the Heartland." @TIME. time.com/7319484/immi...

Happy book birthday, a.k.a. publication day, to Raiding the Heartland: American Story of Deportation and Resistance!

This was a fantastic interview with @motherjones.com. Thanks to Isabela for spending an hour on Zoom to ask great questions about the book and its relevance tot he Hyundai raid in Ellabell.

Drove through a Saline, MI today. Every community of every size has a voice. We love to see it. #IceIsCruel #ChingaLaMigra

Breaking news at the CDC.

📢Big news: Human Impact Partners is now Health in Partnership! Same mission, values, & commitments — new name & look that better reflect who we are today: grounded in relationships & building power for health equity in deep partnership with others. www.healthinpartnership.org/message-from...

What’s it like to be in the National Guard right now?

Remember, without due process, saying Abrego Garcia is a gang member is just an opinion. #abregogarcia

Congratulations to @thelatinonewsletter.org board member @wdlopez.bsky.social on his new book!

It's here! It's hard to relay the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time. I know times are dark right now, but I'm going to celebrate this win, and you are welcomed to join me : )

Be angry any time a US citizen with no criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant. AND be angry any time an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record is unlawfully detained and abused for being an undocumented immigrant.

Lucky enough to be in community with wonderful people like @wdlopez.bsky.social. His new book is a must read without question!

DHS actively expelling people from a place they belong.

Thanks so much for the support, @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social, and for your continued and excellent coverage of the ICE protests in and around LA.

Of course the right is locked in on the Epstein files. The Trump Administration has continually used fear of sexual predators to justify millions of dollars in expenditures & hundreds of “collateral” arrests. And the Admin has a file with names they refuse to share? This one’s not going away

Some recent #deportation -related comics. #ArtIsActivism

Hard to believe this dystopian time we live in.

William Lopez (@wdlopez.bsky.social‬)'s "prescient" forthcoming book on the cruel logic of ICE workplace raids gets a @publisherswkly.bsky.social star. www.publishersweekly.com/9781421453705

Good example of data used to criminalize immigrants even when it argues the opposite. Undocumented immigrants make up 3% of the US population but 0.008% of those arrested (2/264). The article suggests they are criminals (and worse) despite providing a much lower population rate of criminality.

Two additional quick notes on masks: 1) ICE is wearing masks while the White House forces universities to end mask mandates so they can identify student protestors; 2) ICE has started to use an app on their phones to identify migrants via face recognition, which won't function if they wear a mask.

Straight out of the playbook we saw during the BLM movement: criminalize one person. Cause a protest. Criminalize protestors. Justify more arrests and more violence.

My latest.

excited for my copy of @grivlin.bsky.social's AI Valley... I tend to distrust The Robots (hence I am always polite to Siri) but realize I need a more nuanced view of things. Gary has been a great writing mentor and I hope to write one tenth as quickly as he does one day. Congrats Gary!

Shout out to my fellow non-tenured Clinical Track Faculty friend @wdlopez.bsky.social from #PublicHealth for this powerful interview. If as a Mexican-American, he can stick his neck out to publicly fight fascism, advocating with reactionary Regents is least I can do. www.ktvu.com/video/162538...

Pro-Immigration Forces Are Losing the Information War. Here’s How to Fight Back. Via @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social

It's National Public Health Week. : / While the dismantling of our public health system is happening before our eyes, I'm still thankful for my incredible colleagues--formally and informally doing public health work--who make this job a joy.

yes, be furious at everyone being mistaken for "gang members" and deported to El Salvador AND remember that "gang members" have US constitutional rights too and don't deserve the inhumane treatment of El Salvador's prisons

Done! Book 2--all 250+ pages of it--is off to the copy editor!

What happens to the people at the heart of #immigration raids? In this No Jargon podcast episode, @wdlopez.bsky.social (@umichsph.bsky.social) discusses the emotional, health, and financial toll these enforcement actions have on entire communities 🎧 Listen: scholars.org/podcast/immi...

Glad to see the suit. The US welcomed Haitians and Venezuelans; removing TPS is a disgrace.

One week left until final draft of Book 2 goes to press....good writing vibes appreciated.

Workers sued after worksite raids too. The people continue to fight back. www.nilc.org/litigation/z...

UM has something like a 55% indirect cost rate. Cutting it to 15% is going to be catastrophic, both for research infrastructure and for everyone whose job is paid for by those grants. Once again, Trump's policies will hit the working class first and hardest.

Want some predictions? Ask a Latin Americanist. I always hoped knowledge about Pinochet, Maduro, Ortega, &, well Bukele, was just history, but as we discuss Guantanamo bay & prisons in El Salvador, it's clear that Latin America history has lots to teach us. progressive.org/latest/the-o...

I worry that it's the era of contagious disease once again, and that, since we apparently no longer believe in bar graphs, we simply won't believe that more people are dying.

This is a really good example of why it's so hard to identify wether the agents on the scene are #ICE. Their vests literally say "POLICE," even though they are not. They are well aware of this confusion and do not change it...–->

the public health world is wild. One day you are pushing for universal healthcare the next you are just hoping someone–anyone–at the CDC can find a way to leak the MMWR.

Oh this is a full roller coaster of emotion in that gift right there, sorry : ) That's wonderfully kind of you though, @lsong.bsky.social , thank you

Who watching their kids’ sports this AM?

Wanted to start working at 8. MIGHT get started by 9:45 🤷🏽‍♂️ any other delayed start times out there?

Sweater weather