Congratulations to Professors Young and Calarco and all of us @asanews.bsky.social. Looking forward to their leadership!

Amazing first edition of El Faro’s “Central America Monthly,” packed full of superb reporting, the now-notorious interviews with El Sal gang leaders (English subtitles), a podcast episode, a deep dive into the Guatemalan genocide trial, and much much more. 👇👇

Ruth López, leading human rights defender, @cristosal.bsky.social still imprisoned ⁦in El Salvador www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

Remember last month, when you didn’t have to worry about the safety of the US nuclear arsenal? Or when you could get on a plane pretty sure you'd survive the flight? Those were the days. My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.

ASA membership comes with three informative e-newsletters, providing an efficient way to keep up to date on the discipline and all things ASA. Join or renew by 11:59 pm ET Feb. 27 for a chance to win one of five $100 VISA gift cards. https://bit.ly/Winter25Drive

I talked to USA Today this week for an important story: "If the data was out there and transparent, it would undermine their story," said Austin Kocher, a research professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Mary Romero, @andrewjperrin.bsky.social, A. Spencer-Blume, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election

Volume 68 Issue 12, November 2024 Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social Some of the articles are available Open Access journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12

Immigrant workers have cleaned & rebuilt after many U.S. disasters. Today, they're at work bringing L.A. out from the ashes, volunteering their labor, 12 hrs/day, cleaning streets & parks in Pasadena & building community #thankyoudaylaborers @ndlon.bsky.social www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Wonderful news!! Temporary Protected Status designations which were set to expire in the next few months: El Salvador, Venezuela, Ukraine, Sudan. This means 18 additional months of protection for roughly 850,000 people!! What about Honduras??

"Immigrants will be the ones bringing Los Angeles back from the ashes. Without them, the city will struggle to recover." wapo.st/4gG1Xgd

TPS recipients & allies are in a hunger strike in Washington DC calling on the @POTUS Biden admin. to renew TPS for El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua. Biden can protect these long-term residents from deportation #TPSJustice @TPS_Alliance

Well, that was… fun. Seriously though, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been there and to help make the case for why we should pass a path to permanent legal status rather than carry out self-destructive mass deportations.

Important primer on expedited removal by the @immcouncil.bsky.social explaining the process by which low-level immigration officers can summarily remove certain noncitizens without a hearing. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/defaul...

And the forum in which it is critically discussed by Antje Ellermann, @adamhosein.bsky.social and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social: migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...

Response from Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to threats of tariffs for migration control. Using US data, she shows that Mexico already has an extensive system of control in place. Also notes the gun traffic from US to Mexico behind the rise of violence in Mexico x.com/i/status/186...

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024) Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...

NEW FROM ME: The government will do things that hurt people. But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him. Here’s a start. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

I’ve been asked a few times recently, so let me say this simply: Republicans move immigration policy to the right, then Democrats normalize/systemitize those changes, laying the groundwork for Republicans to move the needle further to the right. 🔄 There is no leftward movement.

LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape. The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v...

ABS Board Member and guest co-editor of the November 2024 double issue, The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, discussed autocracy in an interview in September 2024.

Today we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests and their two lay workers at the Catholic University (UCA) in El Salvador. They were martyred for speaking on behalf of the poor and oppressed.

The Biden administration massively expanded the electronic monitoring of immigrants, restricted access to asylum, left 287(g) in place, and increased deportations. So yes, the Trump administration does have “what they need” to carry out mass deportations.

The 2024 Nobel in Economics: "The laureates have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a much deeper understanding of why countries fail or succeed.” Sociologists: 🙄 The Nobel Prize in Economics should go to sociologists at least once in a while!!

3,716,106 deportation cases are pending in immigration courts across the country. About a third of them (and maybe many more) are asylum cases, where the individual is seeking humanitarian protection. As Attorney General, Matt Gaetz's decisions could shape their case outcomes.