Let us show gratitude to the many farmworker mothers who keep our families fed year round as we celebrate Mother's Day. #WEFEEDYOU
Julian Lim
@julimwest.bsky.social
Historian of immigration, borders, race, and law.
There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)
Trump’s mass deportation as forever war. Unfortunately fitting analogy. The militarized War on Drugs is too. With all the problems that entails. Except terrorism and drugs are real dangers, and immigrants are not. In other words, the problem isn’t just ICE. It’s the growing ICE-industrial complex.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 8mo agoAppalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...
It's time to end for-profit private prisons. Corporations shouldn’t be incentivized and make billions of dollars off putting people behind bars. I’m leading the charge to end this broken and inhumane system.
Supreme Court rules against GEO GROUP in $1 a day labor immigration detainee lawsuit in Aurora - Sentinel Colorado
The Aurora prison has been a magnet for protests, complaints and lawsuits for years.
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Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8mo ago👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
Newsweek@newsweek.com · 8mo agoRuben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.
Louder for the people in the back, this was never about illegal immigration but about stopping legal nonwhite immigration
Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · 8mo agoICE detention growth since late September is concentrated among people with no criminal charges or convictions. The “Other Immigration Violator” category far outpaces increases among convicted individuals. Link: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-delay...
@projectsaltbox.bsky.social is doing phenomenal work digging up data that is not readily accessible for most of us.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 8mo ago“That’s it, clear the room,” John F. Barr, the commission president, said immediately after the vote. “Off air, off air.”
If you're in Baltimore and the DMV area, please join us on April 17 for a timely discussion about immigration history and law. A symposium commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Page Act: (schedule) history.jhu.edu/event/schoul...
Recent PhDs! Here's an excellent postdoc opportunity in a super cool city with some pretty awesome colleagues. krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...
Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced for 2025–2027 | The Chloe Center
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2025. Chloe...
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Mass deportation is not inherently more practical, feasible, or realistic than open borders, but the collective imagination in this country can picture one much more easily than the other. There is a politics to what we see as im/possible.