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Detention Reports has been updated to include a national map of all active ICE detention facilities that link to individual facility reports. Learn about this new feature and other new features at my latest post: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Racial quotas for immigration are back | Heba Gowayed The Trump administration’s immigration policies hearken back to the racist 1924 Immigration Act, meant to whiten the US

My latest in the @theguardian.com on how the Trump admins latest immigrant visa ban takes us back to the racial quotas abolished in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨New details on “Operation PARRIS” are emerging. Groups on the ground estimate that at least 100 people with full refugee status have now been arrested and sent to Texas to be detained for interrogation about their status and possible removal proceedings.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

It’s true! Air pollution regulations actually do way more harm than good if you don’t count all the lives they save

Our (@yidon.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social) new paper about "TikTok refuge" is out on @icsjournal.bsky.social. We argued that American TikTokers' self-labeling as refugees is a stylish roleplay, trivializing refugee exigency and diluting refugee discourses. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.

It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

Try to wrap your mind around this utterly disgusting statement coming out of DHS today. I cannot fathom the depths of moral degeneracy that would compel a human being to say this after what happened today.

Arctic analyst Pavel Devyatkin says Trump's plans to seize control of Greenland and its mineral resources amount to "pure imperialism."

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**

open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

The emerging left-right consensus--from "socialists" to JD Vance--that it's ok to be openly racist should worry us all.

Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.

USCIS Plan to Re-interview Resettled Refugees is Vindictive, Harmful, Wasteful  - Refugees International This is part of the Trump administration’s unprecedented delegalization of people who arrived on humanitarian pathways.

The USCIS plan to reinterview resettled refugees is part of the Trump administration’s unprecedented delegalization of people who arrived on humanitarian pathways and erodes the U.S. as a nation of refuge.

Full statement:
www.refugeesinternational.org/statements-a...

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

“Denying People the Right to Food”: Millions Could Go Hungry as Trump Admin Holds Up SNAP Benefits As the U.S. federal government shutdown enters its second month, over 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves and their families after SNAP food assistance was cut off over the weekend. “We are headed for a major public health and econom...

“We are headed for a major public health and economic crisis.”

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Number of Detained Immigrants with No Criminal History Continues to Grow Here's the latest ICE detention data with key findings and graphics.

Number of Detained Immigrants with No Criminal History Continues to Grow
Here's the latest ICE detention data with key findings and graphics.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/number-of-...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

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Toxic ‘forever chemical' sites severely underestimated in the U.S. A new study reveals PFAS ‘forever chemical’ sites are vastly underestimated, with up to 80,000 likely contaminated locations across the U.S.

Check out this post featuring our updated contamination site tracker! www.earth.com/news/toxic-f...