Migration Scholar Collaborative
@migrationcollab.bsky.social
MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History https://sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc
The CBP Home app urges migrants to self-deport. However, given the external pressures that migrants face in their day-to-day lives, many self-deportations are not completely voluntary. MiSC scholar Adam Goodman's work on self-deportations provides us with a lens to see through these fallacies. 🧵⬇️
How has a SCOTUS case from the 1800's profoundly effected the way deportation is viewed today?
ICE detainee says officers used force and pepper spray after summoning migrants to a meeting they called a “trick.”
ICE Detainees on Hunger Strike Say They Were Pepper Sprayed
newsweek.com
Sen. Murphy: When Trump came into office, ICE's budget was $10B. ICE's budget is now 11 times that. $115B. Taxpayers entrust their money to us to spend it wisely. We swear an oath to assure that their money is not used to fund illegal behavior. Every single day ICE is violating the Constitution.
A new series rolling out on publicbooks.org, "Fascism's Building Blocks," was commissioned by MiSC members @naomipaik.bsky.social and @catherinesramirez.bsky.social and examines the laws that paved the way for today's emergent fascism. Check it out! www.publicbooks.org/tag/fascisms...
Earlier today, ICE revealed that on April 28, 2026, Denny Adan Gonzalez (a 33-year old migrant from Cuba) died while in their custody. Gonzalez becomes the 18th person to have died in ICE detainment in 2026.
Migration Scholar Collaborative@migrationcollab.bsky.social · 4mo agoOn April 12, 2026, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt died in ICE custody. How can we use the works of MiSC scholars such as @austinkocher.com to contextualize this death, the deaths of the sixteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2026, and the criminalization of migration? 🧵
On April 12, 2026, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt died in ICE custody. How can we use the works of MiSC scholars such as @austinkocher.com to contextualize this death, the deaths of the sixteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2026, and the criminalization of migration? 🧵
The recording of our event, Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence with Dr. Maxamed Abu-maye is now available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFz... @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @ridgs.bsky.social
Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence
YouTube video by Immigration History Research Center
youtube.com
The Trump administration is continuing its attacks on DACA, the program that has given deportation relief and work permits to immigrants who came to the United States as children. The Board of Immigration Appeals recently ruled that DACA status is not enough to spare someone from deportation.
Trump’s Justice Department Is Moving to Make It Easier to Deport DACA Recipients
Rep. Delia Ramirez speaks about the administration’s effort to “weaponize the court system” against immigrants.
truthout.org
Join us April 22 for a fascinating conversation about how international students organize and protest in the face of repression and threats. RSVP: z.umn.edu/IHRC_April22 @freedomhouse.bsky.social @nafsa-official.bsky.social @presalliance.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social
This March, MiSC scholar A. Naomi Paik (@naomipaik.bsky.social) published "Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert." What does Paik teach us about the links between land conservation and the antimigrant violence?🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert
Abstract. This article examines migration through protected areas of the Sonoran Desert from the 1990s to 2024. During this time of accelerating globalization and transnational migration, US border po...
read.dukeupress.edu
Take a listen to my convo w/Amelia Frank-Vitale on her new book, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds." I learned so much from this book & Amelia's response to my questions. newbooksnetwork.com/leave-if-you...
It hurts that denationalization is still a reality today.
Migration Scholar Collaborative@migrationcollab.bsky.social · 5mo agoBetween 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
Denationalization and Historical Memory: The Panamanian Case
In this text inspired from her book Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (2022), Kaysha Corinealdi retraces the five years that led to 50,000 (mostly Black)…
thefunambulist.net
“As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it."
ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.
motherjones.com
Something remarkable happened this week: a Substack post helped expose and remove the first-ever ICE 287(g) enforcement agreement with a K-12 school district in the United States. Here's what we know. 🧵
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
Join the IHRC and @iehs.bsky.social for a fascinating online discussion: The Founding of the US and Immigration History on March 31 at 3:30 Central. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/USandImmHistory @hidehirota.bsky.social @amandafrost.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @umnengagement.bsky.social
As Predicted, ICE Reports Another Detention Death While Congress Does Nothing: 2nd This Week, 13th This Year, 42nd Under Trump austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predict...
As Predicted, ICE Reports Another Detention Death While Congress Does Nothing: 2nd This Week, 13th This Year, 42nd Under Trump
Detention deaths occurring about once every four days. Call Rep. Scott Franklin and Glades County Sheriff's Office until we get answers, contact information available below.
austinkocher.substack.com
NEW EVENT: Maxamed Abu-maye, author of the book Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence. Wed. April 8 at 5pm in person and online. z.umn.edu/IHRCApril8 @uofmhumanrights.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social
Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence with Maxamed Abu-maye
Maxamed Abu-maye is the author of the book Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence (University of California Press, 2025). This multi-sited project...
cla.umn.edu
🚨 Since July 2025, federal agents have shot 16 people. No criminal charges. Limited public information. Cases quietly fading from the news. Rather than a coincidence, these events reflect a deep-set pattern. 🧵👇 www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/t...
The Philip Brown Case Tells Us What to Expect After Federal Agents Shoot Someone
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot at Phillip Brown’s car in Washington, D.C., last fall, the outcome offered a revealing lesson about
counterpunch.org
🚨 Since July 2025, federal agents have shot 16 people. No criminal charges. Limited public information. Cases quietly fading from the news. Rather than a coincidence, these events reflect a deep-set pattern. 🧵👇 www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/t...
The Philip Brown Case Tells Us What to Expect After Federal Agents Shoot Someone
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot at Phillip Brown’s car in Washington, D.C., last fall, the outcome offered a revealing lesson about
counterpunch.org
ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days. The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished. Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me. My latest for @nbcnews.com
'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit
The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed under a decades-old legal settlement.
nbcnews.com
Ms. Rachel met over zoom with a 5-year-old boy with autism detained at Dilley whose mother says he hasn’t been able to poop in nine days. After trying to cheer him up on the call, she’s calling for his release this morning.
"Jorge Reyes Medina said he was held in the Baltimore facility starting last Thursday... He said they were told that 'no one can be in here' as agents prepared them to leave the holding cells. On Sunday, at least 100 people were shackled and loaded into vans, then driven to an airport"
ICE sent Maryland detainees to Arizona before congressional oversight visit
For months, the overcrowded, bleak conditions on the sixth floor of the George H. Fallon Federal Building have drawn attention from Maryland lawmakers, a federal judge and the state’s top prosecutor.
thebanner.com
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’
theguardian.com
New: A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending legal protections next week that have allowed nearly 1,100 Somalis to live and work in the United States. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
US judge temporarily blocks Trump from ending protections for 1,100 Somalis
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from ending legal protections next week that have allowed nearly 1,100 Somalis to live and work in the Un...
reuters.com
The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...
The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...