SUBSTACKED THIS AND OTHER RECENT WORK HERE: substack.com/@tanvimisra/...

Some really great analysis of asylum, which should be a human right equally available to all who need, and we should be working together globally to end the need...

For the latest issue for @readlux.bsky.social , I followed a couple of different groups of court watchers earlier this year. The piece (if you don’t have your copy in hand yet) is also online now! lux-magazine.com/articlea/ice...

The walls that keep *them* out inevitably wind up keeping *you* in.

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism. jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

NEW LIVE FREE HELL! at 10AM CDT and poodcast shortly after Tues., Shana Marshall discusses the @securityincontext.bsky.social piece, "A Violent Convergence" on militarization. Weds., @tanvi.bsky.social on the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay, "The Death of Asylum" www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

"By stripping the right to asylum, nations are creating a growing underclass of placeless, rightless people to police in perpetuity, and an ever-greater policing apparatus with which to crack down on them—and, increasingly, everyone else" - @tanvi.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism. jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

From @tanvi.bsky.social 100daysofzohran.thepolisproject.com/nypd-and-ice...

Hi, I'm looking to speak with resettled refugee Afghan families or those in the asylum process affected by recent Trump policies for a story. Can protect ID! Please reach out at tanvim.05 on signal.

We are excited to announce that Rachael Bedard, Jasper Craven, Jasmine Garsd @jasgarsd.bsky.social, Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social, Ryan “R.L.” Nave @rlnave.bsky.social, and Katie Rose Quandt will be joining the Type Media Center fellowship program: typemediacenter.org/2026/02/24/t...

woohoo!

Doing investigative fellowship with the good folks at Type Media, covering-- no surprise--immigration. Pls reach out if you have investigative tips (real tips! pls don't give me story ideas, i've been on this beat for a decade!) I'm at tanvim.05 on signal. typemediacenter.org/fellows/tanv...

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

reading this by @tanvi.bsky.social 'as the new mayor takes office, the bigger question is not what he symbolizes for immigrant communities but what benefits he might deliver for them if he can realize his vision of an affordable city.'

Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...

As we wrap up year one of Trump’s second administration, we invited @adamfederman.bsky.social, @tanvi.bsky.social, and @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social back to the Backstory to talk about how the year has gone and how they think things will develop going forward. open.spotify.com/episode/2UOo...

”Yet immigrants, of course, are not a monolith. They have taken different paths to America and had different experiences upon arrival—and they tell themselves different stories about their own luck and circumstance.” Important read/reminder 👇

New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

I revived my dead substack and did a roundup of everything i wrote last year: all my essays and investigations and magazine pieces on immigration, the topic I've covered for a decade at this point. PLS READ & SUBSCRIBE substack.com/home/post/p-...

MY LATEST @kcrw.com ‬⁩ ORANGE COUNTY LINE: The legacy of Chicano artist Jose Lozano. Share, porfas!

I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless. nymag.com/intelligence...

For years, ICE has used the latest surveillance technology to target immigrants, now it’s using this technology to target anti-ICE protesters. This is a serious threat to Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

!! Comms folks, PR ppl, press officers, public liaisons, spokespersons!! Please put my new email on your press lists: [email protected]. I'm also on [email protected] for secure tips and tanvim.05 on Signal. (Pls delete/ swap out any other emails on file!)

Read @tanvi.bsky.social on migrants who have been rendered stateless — deported by the US then exiled by the countries of their birth — and the black hole in which they find themselves nymag.com/intelligence...

I appreciate that @tanvi.bsky.social highlights a deported refugee, now stateless, who committed a crime all of us find egregious Deportations in no way address harm or sexual violence and the immigrants' rights space needs to move away from respectability politics nymag.com/intelligence...

ICYMI!!!!!!

I knew I’d get some of this. It IS journalism, actually, to go beyond simplistic notions of good and evil that rely on a high school idea of morality & question how systems work against people who are very sympathetic as well as those who have done grave harm, because both those people are people.

I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless. nymag.com/intelligence...

I got questions about how to help Laura, the mom in my @MotherJones story that came out a few weeks ago. Laura’s sister, who covers her legal fees and commissary costs, responded with the gofundme link, which I’ve included below. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Y'all want to read some great recent stories my students wrote? Here's a TL cleanse: www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/10/15/a...

want cake? why not try "mug of cereal." that's right, mug of cereal: Its what you have

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for @nymag.com --> nymag.com/intelligence...

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

So glad that @tanvi.bsky.social followed up on this group of people; those who were in Border Patrol detention centers on the days Trump took office, people from countries where deportation wasn't easy for the Trump admin, who ended up dumped in Panama to send a message to other migrants.

"Today many of the migrants are still stuck in Panama, a country where less than one percent of asylum applicants were approved in 2022 and the top border official said it would “never” offer asylum to “these people.”"

This article is important, well-written, beautiful in places – and fills me with shame. My body hurts from it.

👀 www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Must read: “Among those who remained were women fleeing armed conflict in Cameroon, men who had escaped gang violence in Nigeria, Iranian women who had converted to Christianity and feared religious persecution, and Pakistani and Afghan migrants who were evading the Taliban.”

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for @nymag.com --> nymag.com/intelligence...

The liberal international order is dying, the culmination of a trend that was put into overdrive by the so-called global war on terror. What’s coming is something worse, unless we stop it My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Writing about the climate crisis can tend toward abstraction or comforting techno-optimism. “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism” does anything but. @materialistjew.bsky.social talks with @triofrancos.bsky.social about the knotty problem of the energy transition.