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Chris Levesque

@cmlevesque.bsky.social

asst prof of sociology / law & society at Kenyon College. research focus: demography, law, and immigration detention

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I don’t care if the man had a gun. By all accounts he was disarmed & on the ground when he was shot 5 times. You don’t get to shoot people unarmed on the ground point blank 5 times. I know this sounds crazy under fascism but standards for law enforcement should be higher not lower than civilians!

Caroline Tracey@cetracey.bsky.social · last yr.

For @thenation.com, I wrote about Alice Driver’s book, The Death and Life of the American Worker, about Mexican and Central immigrant organizing in the poultry processing plants of Arkansas—an important contribution to US labor journalism: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A Generation of Injustice at Tyson Foods

Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.

thenation.com

Akela Lacy@akelalacy.bsky.social · last yr.

ICE camping outside immigration courts to arrest people is one way to get around court proceedings & expedite removals. And it's a double-edged sword -- if this scares people away from court they'll be up for automatic removal anyway, @mattcameron.bsky.social said theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests

The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.

theintercept.com

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in a “timely manner” citizens who were being deported by the Trump administration. Follow updates. nyti.ms/42wKSAx

Marco Rubio is wearing a dark suit with an American flag pin. A headline reads: "Rubio Cancels Visas for South Sudanese in Dispute Over Deportations." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times
Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · last yr.

My discussion with Gustavo Solis for KPBS/NPR: "When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives." Read/listen/watch here: www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives

An immigration expert analyzes the statistical impact of Trump's immigration policies, ICE funding increases and immigration data manipulation shaping public narratives.

kpbs.org

UC Berkeley Law@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · last yr.

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

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Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social · last yr.

White House declaring that any Venezuelan man/teenager 14 years or older, who (the government says) is a member of Tren de Aragua, and who isn’t a citizen or green card holder, are “subject to immediate apprehension, detention and removal.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of

whitehouse.gov

Julia Rose Kraut@juliarosekraut.bsky.social · last yr.

When you have the chance, please read this informative essay by @austinkocher.com on the Mahmoud Khalil deportation case. ⬇️ And, many thanks to Austin for including "Threat of Dissent" in his essay's thoughtful synthesis & excellent analysis of the case. austinkocher.substack.com/p/your-intro...

Your Introduction to Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation Case and the Legal Battle Ahead

This post focuses on the fundamentals of Mahmoud Khalil’s case, including the core legal and ethical questions, why attorneys are already calling it "sloppy", and why this is really about Marco Rubio.

austinkocher.substack.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 1993, the Supreme Court said that immigration court proceedings are “domestic procedures ” which are not relevant outside the United States, specifically as relates to people detained at Guantánamo Bay. So I just can’t see how it would be legal to use Gitmo for “domestic” ICE detention purposes.

Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc., 509 U.S. 155 (1993). In sum, all available evidence about the meaning of § 243(h)-the Government official at whom it is directed, its location in the Act, its failure to suggest any extraterritorial application, the 1980 amendment that gave it a dual reference to "deport or return," and the relevance of that dual structure to immigration law in general-leads unerringly to the conclusion that it applies in only one context: the domestic procedures by which the Attorney General determines whether deportable and excludable aliens may remain in the United States.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2y ago

Went back and reread Sales v Haitian Centers and it sure seems like this is flatly illegal. In ruling that Haitians detained at Guantanamo did NOT have access to asylum through immigration court, they emphasized that the INA does not apply extraterritorially, specially at Guantanamo.

Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc., 509 U.S. 155 (1993). “The most relevant of those responsibilities for our purposes are her conduct of the deportation and exclusion hearings in which requests for asylum or for withholding of deportation under § 243(h) are ordinarily advanced. Since there is no provision in the statute for the conduct of such proceedings outside the United States, and since Part V and other provisions of the INA 29 obviously contemplate that such proceedings would be held in the country, we cannot reasonably construe § 243(h) to limit the Attorney General's actions in geographic areas where she has not been authorized to conduct such proceedings. Part V of the INA contains no reference to a possible extraterritorial application.”
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's a real honor that @prismreports.bsky.social was able to publish this piece today by the brilliant Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, who argues that "election postmortems that do not address xenophobia do not get to the heart of the 2024 election." Please read and share widely.

Xenophobia isn’t rational, but it is very reassuring

For people untouched by the Trump administration’s policies, the shift to authoritarianism will mostly feel aesthetic

prismreports.org

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please forgive a little earnest-posting. I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.