A note on the crónica as form and three new translations for @elfaro.net: Óscar Martínez on resisting ICE in New Orleans, Carlos Martínez on clandestine graves in El Salvador, and @carlosdada.bsky.social on Sarajevo in the aftermath of the Bosnian genocide. Read them all @elfaroenglish.bsky.social

A note on the crónica as form and three new translations for @elfaro.net: Óscar Martínez on resisting ICE in New Orleans, Carlos Martínez on clandestine graves in El Salvador, and @carlosdada.bsky.social on Sarajevo in the aftermath of the Bosnian genocide. Read them all @elfaroenglish.bsky.social

New post, three new translations. Read them, and more, @elfaro.net

New post, three new translations. Read them, and more, @elfaro.net

Three extraordinary stories in my translation, for the latest issue of Beacon, a magazine from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social Give it a read!

Our digital magazine, Beacon, has arrived, and it’s well traveled. 🗞️ 🌍️ An investigation in El Salvador. An interview with Guatemala’s defense chief. Chronicles from Louisiana and the Balkans. A short story from Mars. A poem from a Nicaraguan exile. #Beacon #ElFaroEnglish #ABrighterBeacon

We stand with the brave people detained at Delaney Hall, currently leading a hunger and labor strike. Read excerpts from the fourth public letter from the strikers here. ✉️Read the letter: lahuelga.com/freedom.

Despite hysterical claims from the right, Bolivian protests are a genuine grassroots revolt against neoliberal policy

"We won’t stop until they’re free:" outside New Jersey Delaney ICE facility where organizers face violent clashes with agents. Over 300 detainees are on hunger strike inside, with key demands: immediate release of all, quick adjudication of their cases, end to pressure from ICE to self-deport.

Official white house dot gov ICE kidnapping tracker page. We are ruled by the stupidest, most evil people alive.

"Fascism itself is constituted through the quotidian violence of the border." -Harsha Walia

“By shaping the state and capital’s ability to deflate labor power and manage citizenship, the border always serves capital.”

Read this brilliant new piece by @harshawalia.bsky.social in Boston Review: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Me, cheering, YES YES

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

It's not a "failure" if you're not even trying. This is state-sanctioned murder.

Analyzing six months of bond hearings in the Aurora, CO immigration court. From @rgalemba.bsky.social and Ella Iveslatt. open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/j...

Finally, a book that asks the hard questions like "did the Rockefeller Foundation and the CIA use the Frankfurt School to destroy true Marxism as practiced in the glorious USSR?" dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...

Re-sharing this interview I did last year with prison abolitionist Panagioti Tsolkas, in light of recent reports that Florida & DHS plan to shutter Trump’s signature pop-up ICE concentration camp, Alligator Alcatraz, as early as next month.

Re-sharing this interview I did last year with prison abolitionist Panagioti Tsolkas, in light of recent reports that Florida & DHS plan to shutter Trump’s signature pop-up ICE concentration camp, Alligator Alcatraz, as early as next month.

Jacobin doing abundance PR for big-tech billionaires & millenarian fascists, but leftishly👍 Aptly this whole piece reads like AI slop. Hard to parse the dumbest part but for starters: Data center moratoria are a prerequisite for democratic deliberation & governance. Obviously!

Jacobin doing abundance PR for big-tech billionaires & millenarian fascists, but leftishly👍 Aptly this whole piece reads like AI slop. Hard to parse the dumbest part but for starters: Data center moratoria are a prerequisite for democratic deliberation & governance. Obviously!

The USA continues its long tradition of murdering civilians and then labeling them criminals to justify policy, exploits, and expansion.

The dumbest, meanest people are in charge of everything.

I'm not aware of an update to this story from July. www.daylightsandiego.org/beyond-the-b...

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.

As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.

The luddites worked at home, with their families, where they had the freedom to set their own schedules, or in small shops with their peers. One of the main things luddites were fighting against was the *creation* of sweatshop conditions, which was only enabled by mass mechanization + factorization!

🚨 Israeli attacks have killed 1953 people and wounded 6,303 more across Lebanon since March 2, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced today.

Mary Turfah in conversation with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, in @proteanmag.com: proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

In a video filmed in Chiapas, Perez’s father expresses disbelief at the official account of his son’s death and pleads for help bringing his body home. “My son could not have taken his own life like that because he’s not mentally unwell. There’s nothing wrong with him. He was fine.”

The father of Royer Perez-Jimenez, the teen who died in ICE custody in Florida, is asking for help to bring his son’s body home to Mexico. “The hardest part now is bringing my son’s body here,” he says. “It’s not cheap.” www.miaminewtimes.com/news/family-...

Chief Banks firing these off from his autohotel room in Cartagena 👍

www.theborderchronicle.com/the-dna-arch... Sharing this newly published investigation, coreported by me and a colleague. The DNA database crucial in migrant identification in the borderlands for years has itself gone missing. Co-published by @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org

The Colibrí Center's DNA database, built to identify migrants who died crossing the border and reunite families, has gone dark since fall 2024. A board member says it may be destroyed. Hundreds of families are left without answers. In collaboration with @highcountrynews.org 🔗🦂

Not an apartheid state—merely a state that sentences people to die by hanging based on their race.

Not an apartheid state—merely a state that sentences people to die by hanging based on their race.

What is the threshold at which ICE "facilities" become legible in the popular psyche as death camps? A death every month, every week, every day, every hour...?

ANOTHER death in ICE custody. That makes 14 in 2026, and we’re not even done with March yet. This is on track to be the deadliest year for immigration detention in the U.S. ever. Period.

neither a garrison state nor an apartheid state, just a normal country, a bastion of democracy even, that happens to subject an ethnically distinct population to a different, militarized legal system complete with capital punishment

High school students in New Jersey receive message through Google Classroom inviting them to earn service hours volunteering at an ICE concentration camp.

In the last fourteen or so months at least thirty six people have died in ICE custody. Horrible.

A Mexican teenager has died “by presumed suicide” in ICE detention in South Florida.

Horrible and hopefully enlightening to everyone who lionized Chavez and his "non-violence" knowing he was a proud anti-"wetback," anti-communist crusader who collaborated with Border Patrol, snitched on undocumented migrants, endorsed Zionism, and ran the UFW like a dictator...

A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released.

Checking in on the evolving legal definition of “terrorism”:

Everything about this trial from beginning to end has proven what we have said all along: this is a sham trial, built on political persecution and ideological attacks coming from the top.

Checking in on the evolving legal definition of “terrorism”: