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If the Trump administration needs help bringing them all back, I’ve got receipts. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...

IRC: New U.S. Policy Breaks America’s Promise to Refugee Families, Undermining Decades of Bipartisan Support for Refugee Resettlement | The IRC IRC calls on the U.S. administration to halt the rollout of a newly released policy that claims sweeping authority to arrest and detain refugees who arrived through the U.S. resettlement program after...

We're calling on the U.S. administration to halt the rollout of a newly released policy that claims sweeping authority to arrest and detain refugees who arrived through the U.S. resettlement program after extensive vetting.

Our statement: www.rescue.org/press-releas...

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

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As aggressive ICE raids rise, we look at the people being targeted and the families they’re leaving behind As the Trump administration aims to deport millions of people over the next four years, “Reveal” tells the human stories of those caught up in ICE raids.

"I feel like while our eyes are on Minneapolis, people tend to forget that they’ve never left Los Angeles.

I’ve even had to clarify to different people who believe that Border Patrol and ICE left LA a long time ago, and that’s never been the case."

Insight: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

Immigration courts fast-track hearings for Somali asylum claims Their lawyers fear the notices are merely the first step toward the removal without due process of Somali asylum applicants in the country.

Their lawyers fear the notices are merely the first step toward the removal without due process of Somali asylum applicants in the country. n.pr/4alaz9X

Trump Administration Ends Refugee Pathway for Persecuted Iranian Religious Minorities The Trump Administration has ended the refugee pathway for Iranian religious minorities to resettle in the U.S., abandoning thousands.

Trump has ended refugee resettlement pathways for Iranian religious minorities.

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Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.

This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.

Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

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HUGE news! This is about a Trump admin effort to arrest thousands of screened and vetted refugees in Minnesota and fly them to Texas to be jailed and then interrogated.

After the interrogation is over, people are being dumped on the street and told to find their own way back.

I can't stop thinking about this.

Some of the murders are overt. Some of the murders are less direct and are murders nonetheless

Timely Research Evidence to Support Federal Assistance for English Learners - Education Law Center The role that the federal government plays in improving educational opportunities for students across the U.S. has been...

Timely Research Evidence to Support Federal Assistance for English Learners via @edlawcenter.bsky.social edlawcenter.org/timely-resea...

Immigration scholars! Come to the 2026 Migration & Organizations Conference at Wharton on May 26-27.

Send us your best work by February 13 or apply for the doctoral consortium by February 14 here: impact.wharton.upenn.edu/homepage/mig...

Friends: Please spread the word!

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

Rogers & Kahne (2025) idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publications...

Im/migrant Well-Being Research Center at USF (2025) usf.app.box.com/s/n28gq7jdrr...

highlighting other recent work:

Figlio & Özek (2025) edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1336

Slungaard Mumma (2025) edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

Dee (2025) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Glad this issue is getting the attention it deserves. Educators need more support & training for the day-to-day work of meeting kids where they are in the face of terrifying ICE brutality. Thx to @theconversation.com for covering

Purple graphic with the following text: "Breaking news, IRAP denounces effort to detain and trip already-resettled refugees of legal status." A screenshot of a New York Times headline reads "ICE Arrested Dozens of Refugees in Minnesota and Sent them to Texas, Lawyers say. The The refugees, many of them from Somalia, had passed security screenings before coming to the United States. The Trump administration has vowed to 're-examine thousands of refugee cases.'"

Read IRAP's full statement denouncing the Trump administration’s lawless and inhumane arrest and detention of resettled refugees: refugeerights.org/news-resourc...

US Set to Suspend Visa Processing for Dozens of Countries (1) The State Department will suspend processing visas for people from dozens of countries, according to a person familiar with the matter, in what marks one of the Trump administration’s most extreme mov...

The Trump administration is pausing visa processing indefinitely for 75 countries, including Brazil.

The State Department is freezing visas for the countries while consulates adopt new public charge screening policies.

A year of hell for immigrants In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.

"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."

NEW: New York lawmakers say that most immigrants in NYC are skipping court appointments and ICE check-ins to avoid detention, risking their path to legal status. Now they want to pass a law banning the arrest tactic.

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NEW: The Trump administration sent Head Start employees a six-page list of "prohibited words" for grant applications, including terms like: disabilities, tribal, Black, and women.

The administration wants to erase communities and block access to early childhood services. We'll see them in court.

DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection An organization is tracking the growing number of arrests among people with temporary deportation protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

"DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection," writes Valerie Gonzalez for the @ap.

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Trump’s Crackdown in Wake of Shooting Blocks Legal Pathways for Migrants

Taken together, the actions of the Trump administration in the wake of the National Guard shooting represent some of the most significant changes to immigration policy since he regained office. w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social + Allison McCann

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New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Twin Cities

NEW: NEW: The Trump administration is launching an intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis region, according to an official with knowledge and documents obtained by the NYT.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...