In light of the story about hundreds of detainees disappearing after being sent to Alligator Alcatraz, reposting this here. These are enforced disappearances under international law. The systematic top-down practice raises questions as to whether these amount to crimes against humanity.

These are enforced disappearances under international law and should be reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances immediately: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

These are enforced disappearances under international law and should be reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances immediately: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

Forgive the typos. Was rage-typing on my phone.

Looking for a documentary on the Freedmen’s Bureau. Recommendations welcome.

Forgive the typos. Was rage-typing on my phone.

This is another use of enforced disappearance as a deportation amanagement strategy. When no ory knows where you are, they are significantly hindered from advocating doe your rights. Thread. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.

Today is Internat’l Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance. In the US, we are experiencing an unprecedented uptick in enforced disappearances of migrants. Follow the UN WGEID for news and opportunities to report these violations and fight back against these abuses. @wgeid.bsky.social

Today is Internat’l Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance. In the US, we are experiencing an unprecedented uptick in enforced disappearances of migrants. Follow the UN WGEID for news and opportunities to report these violations and fight back against these abuses. @wgeid.bsky.social

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New report from UW Center for Human Rights (CHR) on enforced disappearances and illegal removals of migrants. CHR’s report builds on an emerging literature of migrant disappearance in the US. These reports are critical to establishing this systematic practice: jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/...

New report from UW Center for Human Rights (CHR) on enforced disappearances and illegal removals of migrants. CHR’s report builds on an emerging literature of migrant disappearance in the US. These reports are critical to establishing this systematic practice: jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/...

There’s a man with a bunch of naked women on the back of his shirt watching a UFC fight announced by Joe Rogan, and I want to ask the woman he’s with if she’s okay. What is the universal sign of distress?

So if a group of men -- all of them wearing masks, with no uniforms or badges visible, driving unmarked cars -- approach anyone on the streets of DC, they're just supposed to submit?

Very good reporting. How an Asylum Seeker in U.S. Custody Ended Up in a Russian Prison www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Crowdsourcing this question: Do you know any US-based orgs that exist primarily to train NGOs, lawyers, and community advocates how to engage with UN and Inter-American systems?

It's a government-owned house on a base. 3A applies to private property.

We wanted to share something about our logo. It is meant to evoke a protest sign. And there is a candle flame in the negative space. We and so many others are working to keep that flame lit. We are grateful to the very talented volunteer who designed it but wishes to remain anonymous.

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

The provision requiring entry of detainee information into the ICE detainee locator system is critical to protecting people from enforced disappearance. We know DHS uses periods of non-registry and non-access to phones (enforced disappearance) to violate rights during a period of disappearance.

There is still beauty in the world and animals that Do Not Care if you want to drive down the road because they are busy enjoying their lives, and that is lovely too.

The provision requiring entry of detainee information into the ICE detainee locator system is critical to protecting people from enforced disappearance. We know DHS uses periods of non-registry and non-access to phones (enforced disappearance) to violate rights during a period of disappearance.

For a shorter version, check out our policy brief here: bmi.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

For more on the various contexts in which DHS systematically disappears migrants and asylum seekers, check out my and my co-author’s article in the Journal on Migration and Human Security here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

During this time of no contact with the outside world and no way for the outside world to contact you, the government can steamroll over your rights and do, plausibly, anything illegally. This is why DHS routinely disappears migrants: to quickly deport people outside the protection of the law.

This is an enforced disappearance under international law (1. Detention; 2. By state agents; 3. Hiding the fate or whereabouts of the individuals). DHS has a long history of forcibly disappearing migrants as a border management strategy, but it has gotten considerably worse under this administration

my god he's perfect

This is an enforced disappearance under international law (1. Detention; 2. By state agents; 3. Hiding the fate or whereabouts of the individuals). DHS has a long history of forcibly disappearing migrants as a border management strategy, but it has gotten considerably worse under this administration

My and Dr. Leal’s policy report on enforced disappearances of migrants in CBP custody is up! If you don’t have time to read our article in J. on Migration & Human Security, our policy brief provides recommendations for ending enforced disappearance in CBP custody: bmi.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

My and Dr. Leal’s policy report on enforced disappearances of migrants in CBP custody is up! If you don’t have time to read our article in J. on Migration & Human Security, our policy brief provides recommendations for ending enforced disappearance in CBP custody: bmi.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

Just finished The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. It’s an excellent overview, told through voices of survivors, about how modern anti-communist coups can draw a straight line back to the US-supported campaign of mass murder and disappearance in Indonesia: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vince...

I asked the Library of Congress about this today. One of its spokespeople said it's the result of a coding error and should be resolved soon.

what's so chilling, to me, in all the evangelical parenting manuals i read and the testimony i received from survivors, is the idea in evangelical circles that striking your child in a cool and ritualistic manner is somehow better than doing so in anger. it isn't. it really isn't

After close to a year, my cactus started blooming, and she’s absolutely gorgeous.

Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Sunday v. Monday

There needs to be a “language of the Trump administration” book akin to Klemperer’s “The Language of the Third Reich (Lingua Tertii Imperii),” I swear. www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-...

There needs to be a “language of the Trump administration” book akin to Klemperer’s “The Language of the Third Reich (Lingua Tertii Imperii),” I swear. www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-...

Spot Resolutions, anyone? www.cfr.org/blog/twe-rem...

Spot Resolutions, anyone? www.cfr.org/blog/twe-rem...

My partner’s mom visited and our dog got used to sleeping in bed with her. She has been introduced to the human custom of using pillows and now sleeps like she’s one of those koala bears I used to put on my pencils in elementary school.

As someone who grew up in a conservative white evangelical denomination in rural Indiana, I found this article compelling. There was a scandal in my parents’ congregation a couple years ago. Someone they hired to be a youth pastor was convicted of child sex trafficking.

ICE Releases Deaf Mongolian Immigrant After Holding Him for Months Without interpreter. By Wendy Fry, @calmatters.org They "had not provided him access to anyone who spoke his language, which his attorney equated to holding him in solitary confinement." Google Translate yielded specious results.

Proud proud mentor moment to see a former intern publish this and give me the kindest shout out. Check out Natalie Lerner's fabulous note entitled Rights as Remedies: Using Latin American Legal Channels to Halt U.S. Border Externalization: lawcommons.lclark.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Proud proud mentor moment to see a former intern publish this and give me the kindest shout out. Check out Natalie Lerner's fabulous note entitled Rights as Remedies: Using Latin American Legal Channels to Halt U.S. Border Externalization: lawcommons.lclark.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Two things both true: The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home. And. It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.

We gave our chiweenie a pup cup for the first time in her life last night, and these photos perfectly capture her initial descent into what I imagine is some form of addiction.